On 26 Sep 99, at 15:08, LARRY JOUBERT wrote:

>   Are REBOOT and RESTART the same thing?

  Maybe.  "Boot" -- short for "bootstrap" -- is the process by which
the computer is initialized and the Operating System is loaded into
memory.  "Start" might refer to any program; when it refers to the
OS, there may not be much difference between it an "boot".

>   Sometimes the Computer ask to be  " Reboot " and       sometimes
> to be " Restart ".  Why?

  SOME of the time, when it says "Restart Windows", this *may*
indicate that it is able to achieve the necessary changes simply by
reverting to "real moe" -- the mode the processor first comes up in --
 reloading Windows into memory and switching back to "protected
mode".  In these few cases, restarting Windows does not involve a
full reboot of the system.  [These cases are relatively rare;
although rebooting takes longer, it's easier for programmers to
trigger.]

David G

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