Information Tech (IT): Restart Your Windows PC Faster

Information Tech (IT): Restart Your Windows PC Faster: Nowadays we have only one button on our PCs and Laptops for starting or shutting down the PC. But on earlier Windows machines we use...

Restart Your Windows PC Faster

Nowadays we have only one button on our PCs and Laptops for starting or shutting down the PC. But on earlier Windows machines we used to have two buttons, one for the Shut Down and the other for Restart. This Restart button never closed any open application and thus was very fast. But in today’s systems if we Restart the computer with the Restart option, then it first closes all the open applications and then shuts down the computer, thus making it slow.

What’s The Problem And The Use ?

The button went missing but the feature is still there. Don’t know why Microsoft is hiding it. It is specially for those situations when an application is preventing Shutdown or you have saved all your work and need to restart your PC faster without Windows wasting time on closing applications. It is also helpful when a new software upon installation wants your system to be restarted.

Information Tech (IT): How to Stop Unexpected System Shutdown

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How to Stop Unexpected System Shutdown

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Many a times it happens that we by mistake click the restart or the shutdown button and then think if we could somehow stop the Shutdown process but all in vain. Now we have a small trick that can save all your unsaved work and all your opened applications by stopping the shutdown process with just a click of a button.

ALSO SEE : 12 Ways to speed up your Windows 7 PC

NOTE This trick would be known to most of the tech-savvy people out there. But surely it will be new for many of you.

A Common Scenario

There are many times when in the middle of your work, the Windows pops up a message asking you to restart your PC and you accidentally click the “Restart Now” option. You are left with no route to get back all those opened programs and all those unsaved changed in the documents you were working on. At those times this trick will come very useful.

Create a bootable Windows USB drive.

1. Plug-in your Flash Drive. First plug-in your USB stick to your USB port and copy all the content to a safe location in your hard drive .
2. 2
   Run Command Prompt as an administrator. To open a command prompt, go to the Start menu and search for CMD. Right-click on it and select Run as Administrator to use it with admin rights.
3. 3
   Using the Diskpart utility find the drive number of your flash drive. To do so, type in the following command in the command prompt: DISKPART
   • Running DISKPART will display the version of DISKPART you are running and the name of your PC.
   • Type “list disk” to see a display of all your connected disk drives. Make a note of the number assigned to your Flash drive.
4. 4
   Format the drive. Execute the following list of commands one-by-one. Make sure you replace Disk 1 with the proper Disk number from DISKPART.
   
   select disk 1
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=NTFS QUICK
assign
exit