How To Perform An Emergency Restart In Windows 10

If your computer is non-responsive, this tutorial will show you a quick, safer alternative to manually turning off power to your machine.

urgently. This could be an emergency situation, where you need to instantly shutdown or restart your system – or there could be a situation where your Windows just will not shutdown normally.

If you need bring your system offline and don’t have to worry about saving any work or current information, while using the physical Power can be one option, it could cause damage to your system. A better alternative to performing a hard reboot would be to follow this procedure.

This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops,and tablets running the Windows 10 operating system (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba,Lenovo, and Samsung).

[HappyInkling]

My emergency restart did not work it said that it ran into a problem

[BillyBruvold]

Will everything be long gone or can u get it back

[inrusane_n]

my entire pc was frozen, and i couldn't even do ctrl alt dl, what am i supposed to do in this case?

[ihaveobtainedrealism]

My laptop is stuck on restarting screen. Holding the power button won't work, what should i do?

Edit: nevermind, it worked