How to restart windows xp professional

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Details required :. Cancel Submit. Bill Smithers Volunteer Moderator. You may or may not have a manufacturer's recovery partition imaged onto your hard drive to do what you want to do if XP came preinstalled Acer, Dell, HP, etc.

How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Hi Charlie, You don't, at least not without the installation media. What problem are you having that brings you to want to try a "Factory Reset" of XP? That's called factory resetting which is what you asked about. And you still can get the updates and Service Packs up until when support ended for XP. If you access Windows on a computer through a remote desktop connection and execute the shutdown or restart command, the remote desktop connection will be terminated.

If you execute the restart command, you can reconnect to that computer once it has restarted. If you executed the shutdown command, you can't reconnect to and start-up that computer remotely. If these keys do not work, you can also perform the physical restart mentioned below.

You can use the computer's power button to restart. Press the power button once and wait for the computer to shut down. Press the power button again to turn the computer back on. If your computer is frozen or does not turn off, press and hold the power button for five seconds to manually shut the computer off. This action is known as a hard reset and should only be done if all of the above options do not work.

Some computers also have a reset button next to or below the power button. Tip If the computer is frozen keyboard and mouse don't work or move , or there's nothing displayed, press and hold down the power button until the computer turns off. Restart from the Windows desktop. Using the Start menu.

Using the Windows command line. How to reboot from an error message. Physical restart with button on computer. Note If you have not updated Windows 8 to version 8. Windows 11 Windows 10 Windows 8 and 8. Note If you access Windows on a computer through a remote desktop connection and execute the shutdown or restart command, the remote desktop connection will be terminated.

Note Some computers also have a reset button next to or below the power button. Related information Why does Windows restart without warning? How to restart a Mac. How to turn off, restart, and shut down Linux.

See the reboot and warm boot definitions for related links and information. Microsoft Windows help and support.