What Happens if You Emergency Restart in Different Versions of Windows?
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2024
- In Windows NT versions Windows NT 3.1 to Windows 11, clicking the Shut Down button on the Ctrl+Alt+Del screen while holding down the Control key brings up an Emergency Restart conformation.
0:00 - Title
0:14 - Windows NT 3.1
0:37 - Windows NT 4.0
0:52 - Windows 2000
1:10 - Windows XP
1:26 - Windows Longhorn build 4008
1:47 - Windows Longhorn build 4074
2:08 - Windows Longhorn build 5048
2:32 - Windows Vista Beta build 5219
2:49 - Windows Vista
3:09 - Windows 7
3:27 - Windows 8 Milestone 3 build 7955
3:56 - Windows 8 Developer Preview build 8032
4:18 - Windows 8 Developer Preview build 8102
4:39 - Windows 8 Consumer Preview build 8250
5:02 - Windows 8 Release Preview build 8400
5:20 - Windows 8
5:41 - Windows 8.1
6:00 - Windows 10
6:24 - Windows 11 Insider Preview build 22000
6:51 - Windows 11 22H2
7:19 - End screen
Titles: docs.google.com/presentation/...
Keys: docs.google.com/presentation/...
Music:
Jeremy Blake - Sunspots
Jeremy Blake - Everything Is Gonna Be Just Fine
Bro have so many computers
Thanks for becoming the new pinned comment
That virtual machine
I like how this text is still the same as it was decades ago. It adds a professional touch.
I absolutely hate it when messages change from something like _"File c:\windows\systemfile.dll not found. Click 'OK' to abort operation."_ to somehting dumbed down like _"Whoops! Something went wrong. We're sorry."_
Windows NT used to be much more professionally friendly than it is now.
Broo I prefer it when the computer tells you what went wrong instead of leaving you pissed off.
Icon remains equivalent too, maybe they just forgot about it
Edit: then remembered, then forgot
It’s because technology is unfortunately available to almost anyone. An average computer user is just dumb and Microsoft had to make it understandable for sub 10 IQ people as well
@@Minto107sure but at least give us a "see more" options 😭
Summary: Windows will force your pc to restart, discarding all running applications and unsaved works.
what???
Best summary ever
Deleting them
And there's a chance it will corrupt your system files, requiring you to fix them or reinstall the OS entirely if it gets too bad. That's why you shouldn't use it.
@@randombetters1823??
I don't even know the existence of an Emergency Restart!
me neither
Me too.
Same here
Same
Not same
I love how the only real change they made was removing the hyphen in "un-saved".
i'm not a native English speaker, so dumb question - why was it "un-saved" before Windows 10? Just a typo?
@@moromali_minimal same here, not a native, but unsaved is grammatically correct and un-saved isn't i think
@@moromali_minimal I’ve only ever seen unsaved with no hyphen. The only time I’ve ever seen the “un-“ prefix with a hyphen was for words which don’t usually use that prefix.
probably development of English, maybe back then "unsaved" wasn't as common as a word, so "un-saved" was more proper or something
@@melol69 Hmm... Google nGram says "un-saved" was virtually never used. It was probably a spelling error in the first place.
i cant believe i sat here for 8 minutes watching computers shut down and restart
For me I'm at 3:30
same
I’m at 3:02
(chain)
Same
I'm up to Windows 8 preview
For anyone wondering, there are differences between normal restart and emergency restart.
Restart just shuts down the computer closing every system files before it actually kills the kernel and rusns it back again.
In emergency restart/holding the power button, it's not something that should be used to replace just restarting. It doesn't have time to slowly close all the system files and just kills them instantly. The cons are, it risks the mbr corrupting (atleast that's what happened to me) if you do it too much.
This is just my understanding, maybe you guys could add more info in the replies.
I decided to add some correction. It corrupts the mbr, not the entire boot file.
There isn't just a single "boot file" that's responsible for booting your system. On a BIOS system, a boot sector at the beginning of the disk is used. On a UEFI system, a partition known as the EFI System Partition is used, which can contain many bootloaders or just one, in the form of .efi files.
@@idogaming3532 yeah I know, but a few boot files corrupted and you need to reinstall the OS.
@@vpansf You can restore them with bcdboot.
@@idogaming3532 I couldn't use bcdboot, like it wasn't working for me, I tried to format a fat32 volume but didn't work and made it A LOT worse so I had to reinstall it.
:))) happened to me yesterday, thanks for letting me know i cant use shortcuts
Video: shutting down windows
127k people: *interesting*
It's 490k now 😂
Just a quick note: Since it's impossible to open a Windows Security dialog in Windows XP because Ctrl+Alt+Delete instantly opens Task Manager, so if you want Windows Security to appear on Windows XP you need to switch from Welcome screen to classic logon prompt first
Windows XP task manager _may_ have a shut down option on the top
@@_GhostMiner He later explained how to do it. This comment contradicts itself
Clicking "Turn off" or "Restart" from Task Manager while holding down the Ctrl key in Windows XP does similar to this video, but has no warning.
In Windows XP with Welcome Screen enabled, if you press Ctrl+Alt+Del(ete) it shows task manager
There's a tab "Shut down" menu in Task Manager and power off button. If you press Ctrl and Restart, It emergency restartes without asking. (Ctrl and Power off, it emergency shutdown without asking)
I'm surprised this exists in really old versions of Windows
not in dos variants of windows though, only the ones built on NT
@@BethesdaCakeDelivery Ok. 👍
"Use this only as last resource"
*World of OSes uses that for TH-cam content*
That means World of OSes was too bored and didn't have anything to use for TH-cam content.
So, that's the reason why did he use that emergency restart for TH-cam content.
@@neaf_clover OK, you're good thinking.
resort
@@moonyl5341he knows it’s autocorrect
Exactly
I've used Windows all my life and I never knew this! I thought this was a new feature for 11 since I watched a video recently on it, but never knew it existed in pretty much almost all the other versions.
It exists in all versions of NT, including the non-showcased 3.11 and 3.51 versions and (nearly) all intermediate builds. The MS-DOS based windowses (1,2,3,WfW, and 9x/ME) do not have this feature because of the underlying 16-bit layer imposing technical limitations on just how "dead" the system can go on a Ctrl-Alt-Del event, which in older machines was a hardware intercepted thing. NT temporarily stops all processes completely except for the kernel and logon.exe when ctrl-alt-del is pressed, which is why the emergency restart option is there, it would stop any misbehaving processes so long as the kernel was still functional. Windows 9x was a bit harder to "stop", the underlying 16-bit processes make up a lot of the support for the 32-bit environment. Stopping DOS would mean stopping *every* 16-bit driver and process from executing, all at once, since it was cooperatively multitasked. The lesson from all the technical jargon here is that Windows 9x simply couldn't suspend 16-bit execution on ctrl-alt-del because it would mean every device driver that wasn't in the 32-bit environment would stop, which is why in win9x/ME doing so goes to a blue screen. That's being rendered by IO.SYS (the MS-DOS kernel), KERNEL.EXE (the 16-bit kernel component of Win 9x), and your video card's (then-required) 16-bit video ROM routines. All 32-bit processes are stopped completely. From there you're offered the option to (try to) resume and go back to the desktop, but if you had the wrong combination of software and hardware this could fail, since 16-bit stuff carried on executing while the Win32 layer remained stagnant, including any 32-bit VxD or WDM drivers. The other option is to hit ctrl-alt-del again to immediately tell the reset controller to reset the CPU, thus causing an instant unsafe restart. On NT, the drivers are 32-bit like the kernel, so they are linked into the kernel at runtime as needed. This means all processes can safely be stopped (even 16-bit ones on 32-bit NTVDM) save for the process serving the dialog and the kernel itself. The NT versions also flush disk caches before rebooting, so that your filesystem doesn't get mangled like it often did under 9x.
I think this suddenly popped into public awareness due to a little blurb released by ThioJoe.
@@johnrickard8512 Yup, that's gotta be it. I've been watching Thio for a while, but the emergency restart thing basically starting trending mainly because of him.
@@8bits59 Wow. Thank you for the info about the internals.
I love it how everything goes on with the systems and this message really just got changed once in all those 30 years time xD
If your computer has reached the point you need this, you’ve already hit the reset or held down the power button.
Or you’re on a computer where you don’t have access to the power button
For quite a while, machines stopped having reset buttons exposed to the user. From about 1995-now, actually. More and more people are adding reset buttons in custom builds again but the vast, vast majority of prebuilt machines never have reset switches.
@@8bits59 I've had four different computers since 2009 and I haven't had one without a reset button, neither have my parents with their three.
@@FieryDawn on my gaming pc , my case has one on the top left side near the power button. I normally use that if my pc freezes or if its been on for awhile
@@hektor7966 I meant if you are on a computer virtually
Well I learned something new today, thanks for this!
Great video. I actually didn't think Windows 11 developers would care about updating the Emergency Restart pop-up.
Would you mind making a video about Emergency Shutdown in Task Manager by Ctrl+Clicking "Shut Down"? AFAIK it's removed since Vista, but I remember using it on XP.
I don't think they looked into it, it mainly has to do with how logonui evolved over the years. If logonui gets updated, the Emergency Restart prompt also gets updated with it, albeit unintentionally. All they did was just change the way it looked and worked and that's why it looks different. I don't know how relevant Emergency Restart is, but I don't think it is very relevant nowadays and even back in the 2000s. Sure, it was present from the early days when Windows NT was still a enterprise oriented operating system and even through Vista, since that's when logonui was entirely rewritten but I still feel like it was an afterthought; maybe they remembered that it was a thing at last moment because after all some Longhorn builds didn't include it.
@@FluffeonWolfie it sounds like something someone might need when working on a driver or the kernel itself. There have even been some gnarly situations on older computers without enough RAM where I would have appreciated knowing about this
@@johnrickard8512I mean you can always just hold the power button so at the end of the day it’s not too big a deal to remove it.
nobody is gonna talk about how windows longhorn build 4074 looks very damn good?
I wish modern windows could look like that, those animations are smooth
Today I learned this feature exists in NT releases of Windows.
Bro! I never had knew that there's a "Emergency Restart". Very cool!
I use emergency restart as the power button on my PC just turns off all peripherals and monitors but doesn't actually turn off the computer ever until its unplugged.
@Canman18 that's pretty much the same thing. Change your power settings.
@Canman1800 no way it's canman
Press and hold the power button
@@idogaming3532wait r u trolling or did camman comment
@@vpansfit was prob just someone named canman who deleted their reply
Oh my God it actually exists. I thought this was just going to be a clickbait thing, but this for some reason is a thing and almost never mentioned. I have just tried it and it works.
Hey! Do you have all the builds? Can i get one of the builds which I have been looking for since long? It's Windows Longhorn build 4074.
winworldpc.com/product/windows-longhorn-vis
I got to that part of the video as I read (or red, I dunno) this comment
Windows NT 3.1~Windows Vista: Ctrl+Alt+Del, Then Press Ctrl and click Shutdown
Windows Vista~Present: Click Power Button on Bottom Right while holding Ctrl Key
How does it look like in Windows Server? Does it trigger the Shutdown Event Tracker or just the same as client editions of Windows?
No, just the same as client editions of Windows.
Why do you use Virtual Box 6.0?
When I updated, I remember their was one obscure OS that wouldn't run in the new version (I can't remember which). Also, in the new version that I updated to, pressing a letter started to search rather than just selecting the next VM in the list starting with that letter. So that's 2 advantages of using VirtualBox 6.0, and I can't think of any disadvantages.
@@World_of_OSes Oh
@@World_of_OSes cool
@@World_of_OSes Well you should use what your using because its nobody's business' to tell you what to do with your life.
@@D4RK.MP4 virtual machine
Interesting, I never knew something like this even existed in windows!
The older versions instantly turns off when "ok" is clicked, but the newer versions show a loading screen. A big flaw if in a real emergency because a trojan can easilly override the loading screen and cancel the restart
That's not really true, because if a malware would be anticipating the use of emergency shutdown, it can easily intercept the function responsible for shutting the system down (NtShutdownSystem) in the calling process (winlogon.exe) and prevent it from happening on any Windows version. But the lack of the CTRL+ALT+DEL (SAS) screen on old Windows versions actually makes it much easier to keep the computer operable, since on new Windows versions, intercepting the emergency shutdown will normally result in a endless loading loop displayed on the SAS screen, from which you cannot exit by any normal means.
@@x0reaxeax some malware / trojan also disable keyboard, mouse, gamepad etc. from working, so even if you try, it would be impossible
In case of malware i would just use the manual shutdown. Aka pulling the plug
@@derdrache0512 which has a STRONG possibility to corrupt your data
@@potatosei2103better than letting the malware potentially destroy more stuff
Good video!❤
I didn't know this was even a thing and I've been using Windwos for about 15 years!
25 years here since W95 and I'm Microsoft MVP certified. I didn't know this..
Same, i've been using Win 11 for about a year.
@@Xhizors24 If there's one feature we never knew about in Windows, there should be hundreds of more :P
Woah! Thanks for video! l like it!
Why don't you get so many likes? you are underrated
longhorn build 4074 had the best ctrl+alt+del menu in my opinion
In what situation would you need this feature of simply pressing the reset button
where did you find the os'es?
Tell me, how can you upgrade Windows Vista to Windows 7 In 32 bits?
Cool i like it!♥
god I love that music in the beginning
We were on a zoom meeting using the TV downstairs. The graphics started to bug out a bit and the audio was lagging. So i tried this for the swag points.
Waited ~2 minutes until I decided to force shutdown the computer. Disappointed in this feature
Emergency restart still doesn’t beat just holding the power button.
Especially if the system locked up so bad that you can't even get into the ctrl+alt+del menu
@@tristanraine fr fr
@@tristanraine that is the advantage of PS/2 keyboards. The command is sent directly as an instruction to the cpu intead of waiting for the usb driver to respond. It is possible to bring the CTRL-ALT-DEL menu on a PS/2 keyboard even if the system is completely frozen
Nothing beats RESET button on your PC, assuming that you have it available. The system will restart as soon as you press it, regardless of what is happening at the moment.
@@Titanic4 there are two reasons this option exists: first not every machine has a force reset button easily reachable like laptops and servers. Other thing is doing this you dont risk the hard drive being suddenly turned off which can be risky.
I like how this text is still the same as it was decades ago. It adds a professional touch.
I absolutely hate it when message change from
something like ''File c:\windows\shutdownfile.dII not error
I wonder if what happens on NT 3.51 with the NewShell update.
I never knew that there is this Emergency feature.
I tried that In 4 seconds it said "Preparing security options" there dint have A Shutdown button
How is it I never heard of this emergency restart until a few days ago?
If you continue your machine will reboot and any un-saved data will be lost. Use this only as a last resort. 1992-2006
Click OK to immediately restart your computer. Any un-saved data will be lost. Use this only as a last resort. 2006-2012
Click OK to immediately restart. Any un-saved data will be lost. Use this only as a last resort. 2012-2015
Click OK to immediately restart. Any unsaved data will be lost. Use this only as a last resort.
2015-????
2015_2021
i actually tried this on my work computer and it didn't work as i expected - it just hung on "restarting" circle
How can i lock a new map on Win 10? I want to set a password but i don't know how
what is the purpose of an emergency restart? when would this be used?
emergency restarts were made so that you can instantly restart your device incase a bug/error is about to destroy your whole device or if you can't normally restart/shutdown, then Microsoft said "fuck that we don't want it" and made it like a normal restart, normal restarts take time to close all the files(saves them) and then kill the kernel(next boot opens kernel), but emergency restarts don't save any file(until the point it became a normal restart) and kills everything(safe and harmless, kernel will restart next boot) quickly, its like a BSoD restart that doesnt show anything but restarts.
emergency restarts were made so that you can instantly restart your device incase a bug/error is about to destroy your whole device or if you can't normally restart/shutdown, then Microsoft said "fuck that we don't want it" and made it like a normal restart, normal restarts take time to close all the files(saves them) and then kill the kernel(next boot opens kernel), but emergency restarts don't save any file(until the point it became a normal restart) and kills everything(safe and harmless, kernel will restart next boot) quickly, its like a BSoD restart that doesnt show anything but restarts.
Longhorn 4074's screen is actually pretty nice
(windows xp) instead of opening windows security does it work on normal turn off computer menu?
No
It works with Task Manager's "Shut down" menu, however clicking either "Shut Down" or "Restart" within holding the Ctrl key won't show any warning.
good when my dad at door
Question. What does emergency shutdown do?
it restarts the system without waiting for any processes to finish
the guy who was using Windows 8 milestone 3 build 7955: 💀
Something similar to this in unix based operating systems (Linux and Macos) is the magic sysrq key
Hold down Alt + Print Screen while typing R E I S U B Which stands for Restart Even If System Utterly Broken
I still don't get it. when is it going to use 'Emergency restart'?
I didnt know that there was an ''Emergency Restart'' feature. Now i know 😀
i think this emergency restart just simply the small button in old pc that make ur computer restart instantly right?
That could corrupt the data.
i like how it somehow got the dev version of the systems.
an honorable sacrifice of these microsoft employees risking thier spots
Nah, some of these older “dev” models were easy to get as a normal person. I had several as a college student. They were just on the Microsoft website and you had to acknowledge they were very experimental to download them
What is the emergency restart for?
if your normal power button stops working
Buen video
im surprised that windows has such feature which i didnt even know until now
Jeremy Blake Music! Lets' go!
I stopped using normal restart I just use force restart and then hold power (I have grub which boots KDE Neon after 10 seconds if nothing is done)
Let me ask why
@@tuxi04 force restart is faster
I don't recommend force restart, used it many times and had the boot files corrupted.
Windows versions: 0:00
Video start: 0:14
Can't believe that you've learned from ThioJoe
Why is it an emergency restart and not an emergency shutdown? Wouldn't it make more sense to not immediately boot back into an environment that acted in a way I had to use an emergency feature?
Windows XP/7:pressing Alt+F4
Windows 10+:emergency button
does holding power button also counts as emergency shutdown?
No. It's more instant but the bad thing is it is instant. Meaning every system files will instantly stop without any time for it to properly stop. This could make problems with the boot files, so unless if your computer is frozen, just don't hold the power button.
I agree with your statement that the point of Emergency Restart's in Different Versions of Windows is when you accidentally crash your computer or something just doesn't work.
You know, if my computer is permanently glitched, I would attempt an emergency restart immediately.
bro let the intrusive thoughts win
That’s all well and good if the system is in a "normal" state now try that with each one in the "hanged" state as one would have to resort to the "Emergency Shutdown" in that event
I have a video idea: See what happens when you press WIN + Shift + S on every Windows version. In Windows 10 and 11, it allows you to take a screenshot.
That’s so cool! Thank you so much, I never knew how to take a screenshot on a windows pc.
@@Piplup257what do you think the PrintScreen button on the keyboard does?
@@midorifox send me to a print screen so I can print the page I’m on???
@@Piplup257no. It's a screenshot key, you hit it. go to paint and paste it.
@@Piplup257💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
I like how everyone is making vids abt emergency restart now
why using this feature at all if the pc has a rest button on the outside that does exatly the sam whit one push
it could damage your pc, its recommended to normal restart
Neat
Good video keep working😅
I didn’t even know that windows versions that old has emergency restart!
Why did you use vb 6.0 on one of them and then VMware on the rest???
th-cam.com/video/4cfghT1lywQ/w-d-xo.html
I used VirtualBox for Windows NT 3.1 and Windows 8.0.
Video Idea: What happens if you force restart in different OSes?
Difference with Normal Restart/Shutdown?
It doesn't wait for other programs to close, instead, it just immediately reboots, discarding anything running with no exceptions
1:46 wow this is a great OS
.
How do you have all of the systems?
th-cam.com/video/4cfghT1lywQ/w-d-xo.html
Lmao, I almost hit yes to that 😂😂
Lol
What the combination??? Ctrl alt del??? This combination has launch Task Manager
Why has emergency restart been the trend recently?
Twitter
@@ThatRandomToast Not to mention, Nobel Tech bring that first
I actually found out about it from ThioJoe.
th-cam.com/users/shortsZYkLgZyiUkQ
@@World_of_OSes Same.
From my honor "Jeremy Blake"
I think it's easier and faster to press the "hard reset" button
The only issue arises if there's no RESET button available, which is mostly the case with laptops.
@@Titanic4you can hold power button for a couple of seconds. this works almost like hard reset button
@@Somepony Holding down the power button is bad for the computer.
@@World_of_OSes Forced power-off after holding power button is the intended functionality. And it is literally no different from pressing reset button, except that PC doesn't restart after this.
Conclusion: Basically every version of Windows since the start has exactly the same screen. Cool
Wow I didn't know about emergency restart until I saw this video
Maybe it's not a good idea to emergency restart in Windows 8 Milestone 3 build 7955...
Because it freezes your screen and your computer stops working forever...
Until you reset it...?
Or unplug it
@@Loki1095 yes
What is the point of an Emergency Restart? If the OS hangs, then you won't be able to access the option anyways.
And what if you just press the power button to initiate a normal shutdown? It's safer that way anyways...
Idk, I have no idea how this could be useful..
Your power button could be malfunctioning and you need to shut off the pc ASAP
So is it only just recently that this dialog has become widely known?
Famous words of emergency restart “Click OK to immediately restart your computer. Any un-saved data will be lost. Use this only as a last resort.”
I never knew this feature existed in my life.
I learned system administrator and did never know, that this combination exists
Use only as a last resort is actually creepy
I like how it’s a ‘last resort’
I think I had to use this when my screen wasn’t working properly. I couldn’t type in the search bar.