Did you know there's been a hidden 'last resort' Emergency restart button in Windows since Vista?

pcgamer.com:

There's a hidden Emergency restart button built into Windows that you might not know about. That's the sort of statement you'll probably have seen a million times on smug TikToks, but I'm only saying that because I only just found out about it today from a rather pleasing PCWorld story.

It's a last resort button, as Microsoft itself lists this restart as, and is basically your final call before a cold restart. That's either pulling the plug from the wall, hitting the reset switch, or jamming in the power button and until all the juice drains out of your rig. 

It's not a new thing, even if I have only just found out about it. The functionality has been in Microsoft's operating systems since Windows Vista, though it seemingly doesn't like to talk about it. So yeah, it's been a thing since 2007. I've been professionally bricking PCs years before that came out, so it would have been handy to know.

Anyways, the Emergency restart is designed to get you out of a situation where an application or a bit of software has otherwise frozen your machine and a warm reboot—clicking restart from the Start menu—isn't going to do the job. A warm reboot will aim to shut down programs before it tries to restart, but if one of those programs is irredeemably b0rked then you are still likely to end up frozen.

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This Emergency restart, however, will immediately shutdown your PC with no further preamble, and then restart. It's obviously trying to do something before the restart, however, as the wee