cold boot

In the latest Xbox Insider test builds of the Xbox dashboard, the cold boot startup time has been reduced by around 5 seconds.

Ultimate, all without having to wait for the games to cold boot each time — sounds great, right?

From a cold boot to my saved game in “Miles Morales,” it took less than a minute.

I believe that some code remains in place in memory during a reboot versus a cold boot that truly flushes the entire memory.

When you do a cold boot, the computer shuts down all processes, completely clears memory and, during reboot, runs a self-test routine.