Hidden “Emergency Restart” in Windows

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

[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

[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.

[FrozenBoi]

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

[isheamongus]

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.

[Antifurryguy]

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

[ivirius.parody]

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

[Rainbowgamer]

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

[Proppropproplol]

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

[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)

[petergplus]

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

[kruegerman]

“I tried this a week ago. My last resort was to pull the plug.”

[LambdaCreates]

"Sample Text" - a wise old sage

[raymondherd]

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

[xnetpc]

In an emergency, the undocumented restart method I use is flipping the switch on my power supply off and back on again. Works every time.

[SanjayGopi-ncsk]

My Dad is not a computer expert, but says Hockey stick would be fine. And I second that opinion.

[noobruhified]

Well I thought it would shit down every computer in the house

[シ.シシ]

People with the tiny button that restarts when u press it irl: i dont need that s**t

[abandonedmuse]

When the hackerz say they got your ip, EMERGENCY RESTART

[AliFurkanYtOfficial]

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

[theodorelow]

Its rare to freeze your computer but yes I knew this.