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  1. Mr Walnuts

    Windows 7 Does Win7 have a Soft-Restart Function the way 98/XP did?

    As I'm sure many of you already know, older Windows versions 95/98/XP had a way of soft-rebooting Windows; it essentially allowed you to reboot the system without actually turning the machine off. In the older versions, I believe you just held the shift button down after clicking Restart until...
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    • desktop mechanical parts older versions reboot soft restart software install software uninstall windows 7 windows xp workaround
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  2. T

    Windows 7 can't launch apps after applying windows 7 updates of 12/13/2011

    I buried this comment in my last post, thought it worthwile to move it here. It seems that a hard reboot (Shut down, then power on) somehow disables some, not all, the apps in the task bar. By disable I mean, the app appears in task manager, allocates a few hundred k, then stops..no ui, no full...
    • thomas1004
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    • 64-bit antivirus applications compatibility error diagnosis hard reboot hp pavilion memory allocation outlook performance soft restart software issues sp1 system restore taskbar troubleshooting update issues updates user experience windows 7
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