Back in the 1990s, my fellow PC chums and I thought we had stumbled across a magic trick with Windows 95, something that we thought nobody else knew about: holding the shift key when you hit restart ...

Retro Computing: Windows 95 faced the challenging task of maintaining compatibility with 16-bit DOS software, 16-bit Windows 3.x programs, and newer 32-bit Win32 applications. Microsoft developers ...

If you are a long-time Neowin reader, chances are you may be amongst those Windows users who had noticed a curious behavior: holding the Shift key while restarting doesn’t trigger a full cold reboot; ...