The shift key trick to quickly restart Windows 95 wasn’t a placebo, it was a neat little system to avoid a full PC reboot
via devblogs.microsoft.com
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Back in the 1990s, my fellow PC chums and I thought we had stumbled across a magic trick with Windows 95, something that we thought nobody else knew about: holding the shift key when you hit restart just fired up the operating system again, not the whole PC. Alas, it turns out that we were […]