Restart Windows without Restarting your PC

Mostly Computer takes lots of time for restart. Sometimes we need to restart our computer, that time it becomes necessity like after installing some software but when we have limited time and we are busy then it is very annoying to wait for it to restart.
So here is solution for this problem. In that case you need not to restart your computer but you can restart your windows without restarting computer. It will take very less time.


To restart windows without restarting computer you just need to hold Shift key down while clicking on shutdown or restart button.

you computer would restart without restarting the Computer.

Restart Windows without Restarting PC, this term is known as Hot Booting.

Change Startup & Shutdown Sound - Cool Computer Tricks

Do you get tired of listening same windows startup and shutdown sound?? If yes, then this trick is for you. By using this you can change default windows startup and shutdown sound and can use any of your favorite voice or music as your system's shutdown and start up. Here are steps for this.

1). Choose the track or sound which you want to set as start-up and shutdown sound, But remember that file should be in .WAV format and size of file should not be large it should be smaller than 1 mb otherwise startup will take longer time.

If your file is not in .WAV format then you can easily convert it into .WAV by using jet audio or any other converter.

2). Rename these files as Windows Startup.WAV and Windows Shutdown.WAV respectively.

3). Now Go to C:\WINDOWS\MEDIA, here you will find file Windows Startup.WAV and Windows Shutdown.WAV, move them to some other locations, So tht you can set default sound again in future.

4). Now move files which you have choosen to C:\WINDOWS\MEDIA.

Its done.

Set autoshutdown for your Computer

A cool tip to manage your computer shutdown process automatically. You can set your computer to shutting down at any convenient time (daily, weekly and when my computer starts) when you are not there.

A simple shutdown command set your computer to close all running applications and shutdown properly after predefined time. This tip is very useful to save energy and time. After the execution of command, a small window will appear to count time of system shutdown. You can cancel this auto shutdown process using same command.

Follow the given steps to schedule the shut down process:

1) Click on start button.

2) Go to Run option.

3) Type shutdown.exe -s -t yyyy then press ok button.

Here yyyy mean time in second, for example if you want your computer will shutdown automatically after 5 minute then the command will be shutdown.exe -s -t 300.

But after execution you can cancel this command any time, simple type

shutdown.exe -a in Run option and Press ok. Your auto shutdown command will remove and your computer will work properly

Create Shortcut to shutdown computer - Cool Computer Trick

Leaving your computer in a hurry want to shutdown it but reallly it takes a lot of time first go to start menu then click on shutdown then click ok on shutdown dialog box. But now you can shutdown your system in 1 click. Create shortcut os shutdown on your desktop, To create shortcut follow these steps:

1) Go to desktop, Right click on it.

2) Select New >> Shortcut.

3) In new shortcut wizard window type "shutdown -s -t 01" in location.

4) Click Next.

5) Give any name to shortcut, I gave shutdown.

6) Click OK.

Its done.

now you can shutdown your computer by clicking on that shortcut.

Stop Restart OR Shutdown Process

In Window XP, Sometimes it gives an autorestarting warning with no option for postpone on it, Window vista gives that warning with postpone option. Sometimes its very annoying, If you use XP and doing some urgent work and you dont have enough time and at that moment, If it gave that autorestart warning, then you can do nothing except wait for it to restart but now here is one solution, By using this you can abort that restarting process. Just follow these steps:

1) Open command Prompt.

2) Type shutdown -a.

It will abort shutdown process. You can also abort it by simply writing shutdown -a in run window.

Shutdown XP Faster

Like previous versions of windows, it takes long time to restart or

shutdown windows XP when the "Exit Windows" sound is enabled.

To solve this problem you must disable this useless sound.

· Click Start button.

· Go to settings > Control Panel > Sound, Speech and Audio

devices> Sounds and AudioDevices > Sounds.

· Then under program events and windows menu click on

"Exit Windows" sub-menu and highlight it. Now from sounds

you can select, choose "none" and then click Apply and OK.

Now you should see some improvements when shutting down

your system.