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how do I perform a "soft-restart"?

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I have enabled the "soft-restart" feature. how do I use it?Sunday, November 16, 2014 3:56 PM
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Could you please explain little bit more about the Operating System.Sunday, November 16, 2014 4:04 PM
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I have enabled the "soft-restart" feature. how do I use it?
From a command line (cmd.exe shell) you type something like:
C:\> shutdown.exe /soft /r /t 0
...and if you're on the PowerShell side of the Moon you type something like:
PS C:\> Restart-Computer -Soft
Hope this helped :)
- Proposed as answer by Vivian_WangMicrosoft community contributor, Moderator Tuesday, November 18, 2014 7:25 AM
Monday, November 17, 2014 10:29 PM -
the parameters are accepted but the restart is performed normally (it goes back to before BIOS POST instead of expected bootmgr screen). has nobody actually performed a soft restart yet? :)Tuesday, November 18, 2014 3:52 PM
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the parameters are accepted but the restart is performed normally (it goes back to before BIOS POST instead of expected bootmgr screen). has nobody actually performed a soft restart yet? :)
Works fine a VM. Even w/o setting actually enabled (checkboxed).Tuesday, November 18, 2014 11:23 PM -
Well obviously that is the expected behaviour in a VM, since the VM already has a very short emulated BIOS POST time.
On bare metal it sometimes take minutes until bios and all hardware components reinitialize themselves and that is actually the scope of this parameter/feature.
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 12:08 AM