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What was the secret sauce that allows for a faster restart of Windows 95 if you hold the shift key? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
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[–] rycee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wow, I've never heard of this fast restart feature before. Did it disappear after Windows 95?

[–] lambalicious 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't recall but given the changes to the underlying components, I'd take it lasted at most up tp Windows 98.

[–] rycee@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Very interesting and makes sense that it was something that was only possible due to the particulars of Windows 9x.