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Your Windows 11 PC has a secret emergency shutdown feature - here's how to use it


Emergency Restart is a 'last resort' method that forcefully resets your computer when it's stuck in a loop.

That was my reaction when I found this obscure Emergency Restart method for Windows 11 after stumbling across a post on the Sysadmin subreddit. Reddit user '-Steets-' shared the information in 2022, although other commenters claim the method was present on Windows XP, which came out over 20 years ago. To access Emergency Restart, press the CTRL + ALT + DEL keys on your Windows PC -- a pretty normal action.

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