Microsoft explains how Shift + Restart once enabled a fast reboot in early Windows and why modern Windows no longer supports it.

Raymond Chen recently shared another interesting tidbit about the inner workings of Windows 95. The original 32-bit consumer operating system had a "secret" fast-restart feature, which ...

Microsoft's Raymond Chen has explained why holding down Shift during a Windows 95 restart would get the system up and running ...

Back in the 1990s, my fellow PC chums and I thought we had stumbled across a magic trick with Windows 95, something that we ...

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