can any body tell me the difference between "cold boot" and a "warm boot" cool site

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Cold Boot, you reset the computer Ward Boot, you choose START > SHUT DOWN > RESTART COMPUTER, when clicking OK hold SHIFT, that will close most of windows and reload ... it's faster -- i.e. warm

cold boot has holes in it, he haw, rogl The start-up of a computer from a powered-down state. warm boot has 2 pairs of socks in it. Refers to resetting a computer that is already turned on.

This is strait from MS on the subject. http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q102/2/28.asp A warm boot, accomplished by pressing the CTRL+ALT+DEL key combination, restarts the computer through the INT19h ROM BIOS routine. This warm-boot procedure usually does not go through the complete boot process; generally, it skips the power-on self test (POST) to save time. In addition, a warm boot frequently fails to reset all adapters in the computer's adapter slots. If you use the Reset button to cold boot the computer, it generally restarts the boot process, including the POST. However, this procedure does not necessarily discontinue power to the motherboard. If the power is not interrupted, the cold boot may fail to reset all adapters in the computer's adapter slots. To ensure that all adapters are properly reset, you should use the power switch to turn the computer off. Leaving the power off for ten seconds ensures that all the capacitors on the motherboard have time to discharge and should also give the hard disk drive a chance to stop spinning.