Title: What is a Cold Boot?
Headings: Cold boot
Cold boot
How to cold boot a computer that is running?
Cold boot vs. warm boot

Content: What is a Cold Boot? Cold boot
Updated: 04/30/2020 by Computer Hope
Alternatively referred to as a cold start, hard boot, and hard start, cold boot is the process of powering on a computer from a powered-off state. For example, when you first turn your computer on after being off for the night you are cold booting the computer. Note
A cold boot is never referred to as a cool boot. How to cold boot a computer that is running? When a computer freezes or gets into a deadlock, it cannot be restarted (warm boot); it needs to be cold booted. However, today's computers are designed to prevent the computer from being mistakenly turned off while it is running. To perform a cold boot on a computer that is running, press and hold down the power button.