Hidden “Emergency Restart” in Windows

I can't believe I had never heard of this before 🤔

[@ThioJoe]

Tip for Advanced Users: If you are remoting into a Windows PC, but the remote computer's GUI freezes and you can't even get the Ctrl+Alt+Delete screen to come up, you might be able to send this same 'force restart' command via commandline. Like using PSExec or Powershell Remoting. You could also first try the regular restart command to see if Windows will do that safely, then resort to the hard reset if necessary. You'd have to figure out the details yourself but it seems possible - you can read more about how the "emergency restart" feature works behind the scenes here: www.codeproject.com/Articles/34194/Performing-emergency-shutdowns

[@ChessyIsCooler]

Thanks for the useful tips Mr thio joe ❤

[@setoth1234]

This project hasn't been updated in about fourteen years... Crazy how time flys!

[@phizc]

​@@monad_tcp I have on numerous occasions had my CPU so pegged at 100% that that menu, or even the Ctrl+Alt+Del screen won't come up. Regarding Powershell remoting; I've tried to get that to work, but it looks like I have to create a digital certificate and sign it. Either that or I'm completely missing something.

[@SolluxDivide]

Ctrl+alt+ end brings up the same screen in Remote desktop for active directories

[@memerified]

U

[@flizzycat]

I feel like it's very rare to happen that your computer is frozen, but not frozen enough so you can actually open the ctrl+alt+del menu and click on this

[@ThioJoe]

True. It might only be useful in a few circumstances but still good to know about. I think it is probably most useful in remote desktop situations.

[@WatercraftGames]

Yeah, it's either functional or too frozen to even shut it down

[@pje_]

​​@@ThioJoe like LogonUI.exe error and cursor frozen when on GPU's MSI mode? Heh

[@DragonProtector]

Exactly

[@LegoLoco7]

Exactly. My computer does this a lot. Not too often, of course, but maybe once every few weeks.

[@BlueBoiReal]

"Sample Text" no truer words have ever been stated.

[@Cosmetic_Astro]

lol, thought I was the only one who noticed that 😂😂

[@GamingNoobpro-dp3iq]

I cried so hard. “Sample Text” was so inspiring my entire family started crying.

[@KornBirdOne]

😭😭😭😭 sample text, so inspirational

[@coshiro1]

Some content creators do this on purpose because they know someone will mention it in the comments and therefore boost engagement. Not sure if its the case here but well, if it was then it worked! 😂

[@garfieldandfriends1]

Bottom text

[@blunderingfool]

It used to be that Ctrl + Alt + Delete was an absolute system interuption, could recover you from some nasty crashes... That was obviously too useful as that isn't the case anymore.

[@monad_tcp]

That's because the system doesn't hang like that anymore. Win98 could hang in deadlocks because of priority inversion , so calling system interrupt stopped all threads, and then you let them go , and that would fix ordering issues. Nowadays the only thing that really hangs windows is I/O failure on the page file , which should never happen in the system disk to begin with, unless your hdd is already about to die.

[@phizc]

​@@monad_tcp or the CPU is so busy that Windows won't even update the mouse cursor, much less refresh the screen, more than once a second. When that happens, Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn't work either. Or at least not until next month.

[@jlco]

SysRq is pretty neat. If the kernel hasn't stopped, the SysRq sequence "REISUB" will gracefully reboot Linux without fail. Super useful when trying to game on limited hardware with the OS on a hard drive...

[@monad_tcp]

@@phizc that doesn't happen with the new scheduler since Windows10 . Why are you maxing your system like that. I do all sorts of abuse to my system and it never hangs like that. Once I crashed my Nvidia so hard that I lost the video and had to RDP into the system . Even then I was able to disable and enable back the GPU and it rebooted. I was amazed. I remember GPU crashes used to bring down Windows7 I never saw a kernel hang on Windows since the Windows7 . Your computer hardware might have some defect or something , I would look if there's a lot of DPC coming , that will bring down the CPU itself . To be fair I had a hang on Windows11 once, it was my fault because I'm a software developer and I found a bug in my CPU microcode , which I was using the old version. It was the VMware driver that caused that BSOD , I was testing things and found a bug in the PMU, it's a hardware bug and I fixed it by updating the motherboard firmware, aka, the "BIOS". If Windows give a bluescreen , it's 80% of the time a real hardware fault, and 20% of time badly written drivers, and less than 1% real kernel bugs. That bugcheck never happened again after I updated . There's a errata in the CPU and Linux also crashes the same way without the firmware patch. It's a problem in synchronization of the CPU cores themselves . There are other bugs in the freaking PMU , but those don't bring down the system, Linux complains when booting , and with reason. Serves me well for buying a Broadwell Stupid PMU, but what can we do, nowadays CPUs are full of bugs that are fixed by Microcode update that comes with Windows Update , which you guys keep refusing to install , that I know you do. Perhaps that's why you're system is unstable.

[@monad_tcp]

@@phizc CPU at 100% smells like IRQ flood . Leran to properly configure the hardware, or stop buying junk.

[@neoqueto]

Convenient if your physical buttons are out of reach, like if the PC is on the other end of the room or in another room.

[@achmodinivswe9500]

And maybe if the physical button just doesn’t work for some reason

[@bmw_e36_]

@@achmodinivswe9500But then how are you gonna power the computer back on

[@achmodinivswe9500]

@@bmw_e36_ nah, I mean that if the computer doesn’t register the power button when the computer have frozen. Though I guess you would probably need you computer repaired by that point

[@DingusYi]

@@achmodinivswe9500 windows doesn’t control the power button, the mobo does. it either works or doesn’t

[@achmodinivswe9500]

@@DingusYi I wasn’t really thinking about windows and just more about the computer

[@fungo6631]

Problem is, often times in those situations Ctrl+Alt+Delete doesn't work either.

[@notirus101]

Fr

[@vitalysuper3193]

I always use power button long press restart works in 100% and much faster

[@Hiatric]

Long press power button until screen goes completely black.

[@elissstars]

@@Dont_click_this_profile-v8jwhy

[@MahmoudAli-tn4bd]

WTF!

[@alessandrogrigis1219]

If you can get through CTRL-ALT-DEL, your PC isn't probably that frozen.

[@InnerEagle]

@@gamtax 90% of the times I can't even see what's going on the pc

[@prankerganster3985]

I think the computer be like Task1 - task2 - task3 ctrl+alt+del = drop evertthing you doing. IT would be like you tell ur kid to drop everything they do, even if that means you break something. Lets say a fire happens in ur house. Ctrl+alt+del = drop everything like those expensive plates, then pick up the fire extinguinger and then u can put it out

[@InnerEagle]

@@prankerganster3985 What if your kid is so scared and terrified he won't move, he understands you, but can't move at all from fear? That's what my computer does

[@CW91]

Ctrl-Alt-Del is an interrupt sent to Windows and resides at a low level of the operating system. If those 3 key combo doesn't work, it means that nothing else will on Windows.

[@FeTetra]

i rarely ever use ctrl alt del tbh i dont see any reason people actually use it

[@FrozenBoi]

You can also use Windows + X + Power button if your laptop is completely frozen

[@RoseQuartz692]

What does that do

[@maxydapurp11210]

the same but without any dialog

[@FrozenBoi]

@@RoseQuartz692 It restarts the computer even if it's frozen

[@RoseQuartz692]

@@FrozenBoi but you still need the power button

[@FrozenBoi]

@@RoseQuartz692 That's why I said laptop instead of PC

[@commanderoof4578]

I use it quite often… but only when certain quirks happen with windows and i know its not gonna shutdown or restart and require the power to be pulled otherwise Its also 100% effective at giving the middle finger to windows updates at least in my experience

[@volvo09]

This would have saved me some time when i was doing remote support...

[@monad_tcp]

That's some bullshit driver hanging the system because of a lost thread This somehow only happens in cheap notebooks.

[@commanderoof4578]

@@monad_tcp 5600X desktop… so no your wrong Its happened on every computer ive ever owned it doesnt happen often but its usually easy to spot when your system is going to lock and not shutdown or restart

[@monad_tcp]

@@commanderoof4578 I'm not wrong. It is some driver hanging the system. Notebooks are full of badly written drivers, so they're succetible to that bullshit. I never had any system lockup , it has nothing to do with the CPU. It's the motherboard and it's shitty drivers. Although desktop computers are usually better than notebooks, there are shit motherboards too. Also, if you are having hang problems just disable speed step or whatever is that AMD call that misfeature , you don't let the CPU clock down on C state transfer, unless you're running on battery. You want a stable system or what... It is some stupid configuration of power management in the motherboard, it always is. It's very common for shitty motherboards to hang on shutdown .

[@commanderoof4578]

@@monad_tcp it will do it like 1 in 100 times FFS are you a troll or something? Also the motherboard holds things together and is not responsible for the drivers windows is unless your manually using the drivers off the motherboards support page

[@Antifurryguy2000]

Thanks man, my laptop has glitched and lagged for years and this really helped.

[@氷語]

Actually this will skip the “logging off” part and will ignore all procedures running inside user accounts. Windows will the proceed to shut down it’s own services and reboot. This comes handy when triggering low level bugs in windowses process management. For example fork bombs or thread spawning

[@normie1549]

you are the only youtuber that i trust on Windows, Tech related things.

[@isheamongus811]

For Linux: Alt+SysRq+S Alt+SysRq+R You hold down left alt. While holding it you press SysRq or PrintScr. You may, but don't have to release the second key. While still holding alt you press and release S. You may wait while holding alt and press and release R or do it again with R.

[@RealMesaMike]

alt (sysrq-REISUB)

[@ragnarok7976]

Afaik ctrl alt delete does not do the same thing as it used to on older windows OSs. It's very likely that if your computer is frozen to the point you need to reboot it you will not be able to get to that screen. Sometimes a hard power cycle is just the only option you have. I'd still recommend giving your PC a little time to possibly come out of the crash or blue-screen on its own but failing that just power cycle it with the case buttons.

[@NorthLaker]

If it's frozen, then yeah, wait a bit to see if it recovers. Waiting for a BSoD to recover is a lost cause though. Holding the power button is the only course of action at that point.

[@ragnarok7976]

@@NorthLaker I don't mean indefinitely, sometimes you get a lock up for a few of seconds and then a BSOD after that. I'm just saying don't immediately power cycle if the OS is unresponsive. In my experience if it doesn't come back or BSOD after like 30-60 seconds it's never going to.

[@antoniohagopian213]

​@@NorthLakerwut? Bsod doesn't last more then 2 seconds for me. It's probably going to shutdown itself anyways thanks to my unstable overclock haha.

[@pleskbruce]

I miss the old Abort, Retry, Fail....

[@iAmDiBBz]

I did not know this! Appreciate it joe. For anyone that plays DA2 (Dragon Age 2) on PC you will undoubtedly come across this issue in which you can still interact with windows but a ghost process is preventing anything from loading. accessing any program wont load meaning you cant access CMD prompt or tsk mgr to kill the process. i had to do so many force shutdowns with the power button because of this annoying bug. but this method of last resort shutdown could have helped. i say could cause i tried shutting down a couple times when the bug happened but nothing happened after 20 mins of just being on the shutdown screen. PS. to resolve dragon age 2 issues on PC you just need to force it into fullscreen windows mode and it fixes it which sadly you need the help of a third party program to do

[@azure3438]

if you set task manager to always on top of other programs then it might show you the task manager on your screen and end task the game without hard restart.

[@iAmDiBBz]

@@azure3438 yea i dunno if i made it clear but opening CMD or task manager which is always set to always on top. nothing will load. the window loads but not fully loaded and its a black background and not responding. it happens with every program i tried opening. dunno if i didnt word it correctly enough but yeah when i mean nothing will load i mean quite literately nothing will load!

[@antoniohagopian213]

​@@iAmDiBBzput the game on normal priority or even low. It might help.

[@lehlohonolohloni9523]

Thank you I couldn't open any of my apps like search,settings etc. Now thanks to your tutorial I can finally game again

[@superstar64]

This wouldn't be a problem if PCs still had reset buttons.

[@GremlinSciences]

It's more that cases don't come with them, every MB I've looked at still has the pins to hook up a reset button. Some cases do have a reset button though, they just aren't the fancy ones that people tend to turn to when building a PC.

[@ZA2F]

I have a reset button

[@GremlinSciences]

@@ZA2F As do I. I also have a "turbo" button in case I ever want to bring my PC to a dead stop for some real retro gaming, though I could repurpose that button to be a toggle for some RGB if I wanted.

[@EweChewBrrr01]

Just press and hold the power button. When It's off then press it again.

[@GremlinSciences]

@@EweChewBrrr01 At that point you might as well be flipping the switch on the PSU or just unplugging it and plugging it back in. Force reboots like that are supposed to be an absolute last resort because they can corrupt system files. The reset button is a one-button shortcut to the emergency reset command with ROOT authority, as long as your computer isn't totally screwed it'll safely restart the system even if you can't bring up the system menu with CTRL+ALT+DEL. Use a normal force reboot by holding the power button for that and you've got a good chance that you'll be booting into a dead system that needs an OS reinstall.

[@lovrovinkovic3067]

This guy has too much power like hes gona find every hidden but if windows

[@ivirius.parody]

The button's tooltip: *screaming in Windows 10 UI*

[@Tristan-Evans-OFFICIAL]

thanks, I remember a time when my computer was frozen, and I had to hold down the power button and now to hear about the Emergency restart I'm so happy.

[@petergplus6667]

A PC you still can do that on isn't frozen.

[@WaffleRBLX.]

THANK YOU SO MUCH MAN! when i was trying to watch anime online i got one of those scams where you couldnt get rid of the app no matter whay and this saved my computer. Thank you so much

[@Proppropproplol]

Funfact: the emergency restart message had never changed since the windows NT

[@Sypaka]

This means, it must exist in Windows2000 and Windows XP, too?

[@Scry60]

Another fun fact: you can actually soft restart your pc applications just but logging out and signing back in with ctrl alt delete, it's useful if you just need to harder refresh your windows like pages and apps not opening.

[@AmyraCarter]

Been having trubles as of late; this info is very useful, thanks. I hate having to force powerdown the PC because I know that it does more harm than good.

[@T-marie-N]

Hey, Thio, tell KZbin they need to show who the "short" is from. I almost didn't watch this because who knows what channel it's from. Glad it was you.

[@barszczek8839]

dude you saved me, for some reason, when I ended the task manager while it was loading files(I have no idea why it takes for it so long but it turned off my menu completely) my screen turned black and I couldn't restart it and my off button was set to hibernation mode and the only thing that was still working was opera and with this vid you saved me. Thank you!!

[@richardmillhousenixon]

This is why I love the "restart" button on a lot of custom PC cases. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I've had to use it, but each time I'm extremely glad it has that button

[@Goated-top_G]

Thank you I couldn’t hear anything with any pair of headphones so this helped

[@geezermann7865]

I'm glad to know this. About once a month my PC becomes unresponsive and Chrome freezes, I can't close tabs, and I can't get to the start menu to do a restart. The way I have been doing it is with a hard turnoff of the power button, then back on, and that begins a restart. This seems to happen just before Windows says there is an update.

[@oof6780]

These shorts are godly especially the restart to bios shortcut keep it up.

[@_SJ]

Yesss.... Early short video notification ❤

[@ItsViolet6]

THIS HELPED ME SM TY SM!

[@ratnadeepsaha7675]

We can also restart the graphics card driver by win+ctrl+shift+b in case the pc is frozen

[@AlexRaylight]

I didn't even know something like this existed in Windows... Do you have any link for more debug shortcuts like this?

[@ratnadeepsaha7675]

@@AlexRaylight u can google saying who to restart gpu drivers

[@ratnadeepsaha7675]

For others different shortcuts u can google and explore different websites. I learnt many of them the same whay

[@nathnathn]

Does only work sometimes in my experience. Also occasionally if the display drivers fail remoting into to the pc with something like chrome remote desktop will also get them to restart.

[@ax-50]

Ctrl+Alt+Del is always a lifesaver for me. Whenever my PC froze because of errors in the games I'm playing and can't access the task manager, do Shift+Tab or Alt+F4 I usually do Ctrl+Alt+Del and then Sign Out and get back to work without the need to power off and wait for boot

[@Diaco1200]

You should be interested in SuperF4, in which Ctrl+Alt+F4 will kill active app immediately.

[@tronosgamingwizard]

@@Diaco1200 sometimes that function doesn't work, for whatever reasons..

[@karmatical5837]

Just remember, holding the power button and shutting down by force is not good for your hard drive integrity, so only use that for cases that have no other way.

[@Life_is_Monkey]

“Modern PSUs are built with… technology in order to deal with sudden power outages,” he explains. “As a result, forcibly shutting down your device via the power button will not do any harm to the hardware.” So, no, doing it once in a while won't endanger your machine. -From Google

[@KopperNeoman]

@@Life_is_Monkey A decent mobo wouldn't treat holding the power button as a sudden outage anyway, it would gracefully power down devices at least.

[@RichyTransport]

I've known this since Windows 7, but I've forgotten about this feature since Windows 8.1.. This reminded me about it, and it might come in handy for those who are controlling their computer remotely.. or if this phyical power button is out of reach for some reason

[@noicthebrave]

"Undocumented" *laughs in software engineer*

[@queenymorris837]

Dude you're a life saver my windows button wouldnt work

[@boshi_coyo]

i just straight up get up and yank the power cord out of my pc.

[@automation7295]

I think that way can actually cause damage to your computer, unless you're someone that doesn't care about computers.

[@lunlunnnnn]

@@automation7295 The main way this can cause issues is if a file is being written while unplugging. But modern filesystems have protections for this, and the worst that could happen is that you lose some data. And even if, for some reason, you have more major issues after this, it won't cause physical damage and it's nothing an OS reinstall can't fix

[@anyone9689]

@@lunlunnnnn it can cause physical damage to older disc drives with physical disks , wont hurt anything if have a ssd

[@Aar0nDavis]

I knew about CTRL+ALT+DEL but I didn't know about this. Thanks!

[@Suebe1962]

I've known about the ctrl-alt-del for many years through work. It's a handy tool to use when the computer freezes. One of our clerks told us, sometimes it's referred to as the "three finger salute" to the computer!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@arandomcatperson0]

I like that sample text at end

[@SylvesterAshcroft88]

It does seem useful for remote resets, i remember IT support struggling with this a few times at my old job, if they didn't have access to the start menu, eg. on a self service till, which made it a bit awkward, although on the newer tills you could still access start although it was difficult without admin control.

[@Eagle_Bro11]

You can just hold the power button for 15 seconds

[@Sypaka]

My server doesn't have power button. How do I do it there?

[@thecubeoftheuniverse]

"SAMPLE TEXT" hits hard

[@ianthehunter3532]

SAMPLE TEXT

[@ExacoMvm]

This is likely the most stupid feature Windows ever had. 1) If you can access Ctrl+Alt+Del then you can restart normally no matter what or even Sign out which is similar to restart. 2) If your PC is frozen you won't be able to restart, either explorer ( UI ) will not respond, not even Ctrl+Alt+Del or the whole OS will be frozen and even your cursor won't move.

[@UnusedHandle]

sample text

[@NebulaZen2]

sample text

[@Warp3326]

@@NebulaZen2 sample text

[@Warp3326]

@@NebulaZen2 reply test

[@Your_Local_Weirdo75]

@@Warp3326 sample reply

[@Warp3326]

@@Your_Local_Weirdo75 sample re reply

[@Avijit-pm6wi]

I just had to search this short. It is a lifesaver

[@99prxp]

imagine living in 2023 and having an OS that constantly freezes and forces updates, analytics and telemetry

[@turbousedtogocrazy]

where you live ?

[@99prxp]

@@turbousedtogocrazy man wth i aint answering that i appreciate ownership of my kidneys

[@dai4358]

@@turbousedtogocrazy are you going to kill him or something

[@yousefslimani99]

OMG I never heard about this before! Thanks for telling us!

[@timothykauffman2442]

If my computer is frozen how am I supposed to get to this option?

[@volvo09]

You can't.

[@the_expidition427]

@@volvo09 That is what makes it the best joke ever. Microsoft has ever evolving innovative humor

[@kowalski478]

"Sample Text" bro's editor needs a raise 💀

[@tubbunny]

*s a m p l e t e x t*

[@TafadzwaChawanda]

THABK YOU SO MUCH IT FIXED MY COMPITER YOU ARE THE BEST THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@sphbecker]

Fun fact, there was an Emergency Shutdown feature in Windows 2000 that only took a few seconds to turn the system off, probably very similar to this. That was activated when you pressed the physical power button. I guess MS assumed that if the button gets pressed, they have e only 5 seconds to shutdown before the motherboard powers off. That was especially important in the windows 2000 era, where it wasn’t uncommon at all for assist to take 30 seconds or more just to shut down.

[@pifcudoidef]

great tip, lets hope i can use this when computer ask for a update i dont want for the moment

[@Mr_TommyGun_]

Ain't no way I am just now learning this, thanks TheoJoe!

[@LaczPro]

RDP. Definitely. I didn't know this. Thanks ThioJoe

[@rsearchtim]

Thanks for this Emergency Restart Tip

[@wedistation2997]

AWWSOMEEEEE FEED! Keep ‘Em going! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@vtr_monsterextremo5145]

I think that comes from the win 9x era when you press Cntrl+Alt+Del twice, restarts the computer with all data lost and works with frozen computers

[@kingzyjhiepelongco3593]

if you are using keyboard in CTRL-ALT-DELETE is if you are on power option, press CTRL Enter, simple but use it in some cases of the possible bluescreen signs or in your emergency use only

[@KittnedCat]

Ctrl alt delete was also older combination for startup boot pc (old ones)

[@robonator2945]

if I'm ever in a situation where I'm considering a hard shutdown on windows, windows is well too far gone for me to use anything in another GUI window. If it's still responsive enough for me to get a ctrl alt del and click on that button while holding control, and click on the confirmation, it's more than responsive enough for my to ctrl shift esc and use task manager to kill whatever is causing problems. The task manager shortcut is infinitely more reliable than ctrl alt delete in my experience.

[@Awesomekids12345]

Thanks so much helped a lot!

[@AadiLMughal]

Wao...😮 how I never know this before Thank you 😊 👍 ❤

[@AtomicExtremophile]

Just bring back the good old 'three finger salute'...force that restart lol

[@leogc123roblox9]

That actually helped because when I was playing the avengers game on my PC, it literally froze and I click the buttons you said on the video and it worked

[@TheTotallyRandomGuy]

You are one of the youtubers I watched that sparked my interest in malware analysis, and it’s sad seeing how KZbin is trying to ruin someone who is only helping new generations discover the amazing world of cyber security. KZbin is really on a downhill spiral of stupid decisions, and I hope they begin to understand that they should listen to the users, and stop being brain numb to all the outrage. Hope you don’t get screwed over!

[@amtrakaviationandmore]

For those who don't know, after he got the rare system is corrupted error, a penguin showed up on the screen, which may be kind of cute, but has a scary backstory in phones this is tux the Linux mascot. And he only appears on your phone. If there's a severe error error, that's severe. Wow Linux is only accessible with this error through Android, Samsung and Linux. Samsung has a Linux core if there's a severe error or unauthorized device modification like this guy or a system corruption, he will pop up and if you see Tux on your Samsung phone it's brick. Which in advanced terms means it is unusable, whichalso means that your system has been severely corrupted. he can also appear on your screen when your system is corrupted with the city are error making your phone that's a Samsung not able to boot

[@sirterry435]

What i usually do is Windows + r then typing cmd pressing enter then typing shutdown /r and pressing enter then just waiting for it to restart

[@Paddylol]

The UI design on this screen makes it look like a fake kill screen. Is that just me? It completely reminds me of the Dreamcast kill screen!

[@4bSix86f61]

If your computer is on the verge of getting a blue screen, Ctrl + Alt + Del is useless but on a Chromebook you can press Power + Refresh and it will restart it regardless.

[@AlbertEistein-d6h]

How do you press it

[@Pixelwave90]

Restart Button on Case: What am I for you??

[@FoxDrive99]

Thank you so much for this info been trying to reset my computer

[@michaelfriscia8166]

If the computers Frozen you wouldn't be able to do anything and that's what the reset button is for so no that's not what it's for. Nowadays operating systems use something called EFI bios EFI bios preloads certain system files if those files are corrupt or non-responsive you need to reload that is what the emergency shutdown does it unloads the preloaded UEFI bios files and loads a new read on the next start up.

[@ja.935g67]

Yes it's been around for a long time even in XP it existed. You would do the same thing hold control and do shut down or restart and none of your settings would be saved and all apps will be force closed

[@AliFurkanYtOfficial]

u can use this in command prompt too, just open cmd with administrator and write "wpeutil reboot"

[@badmoose01]

I miss the troll shitpost tech vids

[@abandonedmuse]

When the hackerz say they got your ip, EMERGENCY RESTART

[@01chippe]

That would probably be useless because even if you restart, you will still have the same IP address. It’s not like the dialup days.

[@psylentrage]

Great tip👍 I didn't know😂

[@sethbessinger2025]

After my laptop overheated, it freezes whenever the corner is bumped. There will also be strange graphical artifacts. If it is bumped in the frozen state, more graphical glitches will occur. Only holding the power button has gotten me out of it.

[@eessppeenn001]

I have an unknown issue with my computer. Sometimes (about 1-3 months between each time), it completely freezes. The cursor doesn't move, the clock has stopped. It doesn't matter if I'm actively using my computer, or if I'm away at work. Even holding the power button for 60 seconds just to be sure, does not turn it off. I need to turn off the power supply on the back and wait 5 seconds before turning it back on. (I wait 5 seconds because I'm not quite sure how long I need to wait. As instantly turning it off and on again makes it unable to start up.) But since this issue happens randomly and very infrequently. Troubleshooting it is rather difficult

[@mekelbreg8893]

Thank you for that, sir.

[@GremlinSciences]

I think this is more useful for update dodging when Windows it trying to force an unwanted change but you need to restart the PC.

[@cletusthefetus23]

If there is a hang up, but you can still use ctrl + alt + del, you can switch to another account and kill the hung process. I do this for games that misbehave. So it's good to have extra logins. This is better than forcing a power off or reboot, if you can.

[@privatenope]

this has existed and lasted for almost 30 years... it was introduced in windows nt 3.1 while it was still an os faced to businesses and servers and they just decided to keep it (and got revamped many times when the ctrl+alt+del menu gets refurbished)

[@UnstableEvil]

When my computer is frozen, even ctrl + alt + delete doesn't work

[@ManlykeRehan]

What an effective way to restart your frozen computer!

[@Rainbowgamer1]

It’s like saying “Step 1: unfreeze your computer and restart”

[@edwardkostreski6733]

Wow I did not know about this one

[@soundspark]

To access this in Windows XP you have to disable Fast User Switching. If you are on an Active Directory (or legacy NT) domain it will be automatically disabled.

[@ianbelletti6241]

It's only handy when you can't unplug the machine and pull the battery. If the computer is frozen the power button probably doesn't work because its function is software controlled.

[@eno88]

this is just the comeback of the double ctrl-alt-del from Win95

[@Mayanktaker]

Microsoft knows it will freeze 😂😂

[@ItsMeSFSPlayerAndRoblox]

POV: RAM is full and i thought it could shutdown without giving a recovery mode startup.

[@zodiacfml]

wow. finally something useful or I dont know from this channel! I remember first seeing this channel a few years ago and surprised with insane subscriber count for a tech channel. turns out he has plenty old click bait videos and he abandoned this type of content.

[@raymondherd4859]

press that button, cut that power, move that jumper, drain that cmos, forget to move the jumper back. Fry that motherboard! so cool!

[@Ange1ofD4rkness]

Not sure how well this would benefit. If I have to do a force shutdown, it's because the machine has locked up, and I'd have no way to even access this menu. As for the latter, if you are remoted in, and they have disabled the ability to power down a machine (or better yet, reboot), I am going to assume said button will be missing as well (however, the cmd prompt can always be used in this case)