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[–] BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'd totally forgotten this trick - I used to use this when I was a kid after I heard about it. Was never quite sure if it was real because I remember also later being told to use it in Win 98 too and it didn't do anything afaik.

[–] 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.