system
A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
Not sure if it’s just for me but for me this button actually just restarts windows. It doesn’t kill windows.
gpt
Yeah on newer systems I'm pretty sure the reset button is software-addressable the same way the power button has been for a long time. At a guess, if you long-press it then it forces a reset but if it's just a regular press then Windows gets an ACPI notification that a restart has been requested (just like the power button requests a shutdown now, when back in the day it would in fact just cut the power).