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What was the secret sauce that allows for a faster restart of Windows 95 if you hold the shift key? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
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[–] BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'd totally forgotten this trick - I used to use this when I was a kid after I heard about it. Was never quite sure if it was real because I remember also later being told to use it in Win 98 too and it didn't do anything afaik.