On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 03:54:00PM -0500, Benjamin Madore wrote:
>So as to add to the confusion...
>
>At one point, and maybe still, you could "Restart Windows" without rebooting
>your computer. If I recall correctly, it would drop to the subsystem (DOS?)
>and a message stating "Restarting Windows.
Having said that, there isn't an official way (that I'm aware of anyway)
to restart windows without restarting the system itself. However, I do
know a little trick that is supposed to be just as good. Open the task
manager, and find 'explorer.exe' in the process list. Perform an
end-task on thi
What you are referring to was the 'soft' restart. If you held the SHIFT
key (either I think) during a 'Shutdown -> Restart; it would restart
only the windows software. This worked on all versions of windows
through windows Me! ... It does not work on any current version of
Windows, due to th
On 10/30/06, Benjamin Madore <> wrote:hat you wanted.
BTW, can one say they restarted Cygwin without restarting windows? Does that
make sense?
No, this does not make sense.
If you had services installed via cygrunsrv and they were running, you
could stop / start them and call that restarting
So as to add to the confusion...
At one point, and maybe still, you could "Restart Windows" without rebooting
your computer. If I recall correctly, it would drop to the subsystem (DOS?)
and a message stating "Restarting Windows..." would display on your screen.
So, restarting was not necessarily
On 30/10/06, Andrew DeFaria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mike Maxwell wrote:
> That's not what I said, go back and re-read. Wait, I'll save you the
> trouble: I said that 99% of the words we know--not 99% of the people
> who know words--are our definitions that we infer from usage, rather
> than f
Mike Maxwell wrote:
That's not what I said, go back and re-read. Wait, I'll save you the
trouble: I said that 99% of the words we know--not 99% of the people
who know words--are our definitions that we infer from usage, rather
than from looking them up.
The second thing that shows me that yo
Sigh. I wasn't going to do this. But his flaming is so egregious...
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Mike Maxwell wrote:
Most of us don't look in the dictionary to find out what computer
terms--or any other words--mean. I would guesstimate that you learned
99% of your vocabulary, computer or otherwise
Mike Maxwell wrote:
Most of us don't look in the dictionary to find out what computer
terms--or any other words--mean. I would guesstimate that you learned
99% of your vocabulary, computer or otherwise, without looking it up.
So by that count, 99% of the words we know are our own arbitrary
de
Igor Peshansky wrote:
FYI, there was a patch submitted that would allow detecting in-use files
and retrying (instead of blindly scheduling them to be replaced on
reboot). I'll ping the appropriate list to make sure it gets applied (so
that the newer setup snapshots will have that feature).
Tha
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Mike Maxwell wrote:
> Brian Dessent wrote:
>
> > And if you close all running Cygwin apps and services as recommended,
>
> As you will have guessed from reading this far, I'm old enough that it's
> quite possible my memory is fading. But I don't recall seeing any msg
> from t
This is my last posting on this. My suggestion is that the "reboot"
message that appears sometimes when you update CygWin, and you have a
CygWin process running, be changed to either "reboot Windows" or
"restart Windows" (the latter is the preferred terminology in the
Microsoft world, from wha
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