Starting, as a PC

Usage examples of booting.

Mat hesitated a moment before booting Pips to follow, but Rhuarc and the Taardad sept chiefs, each with his ten, stepped off with the dapple.

Ryan was leaping up the first flight, booting down on the prone body of the first man and clutching at the corner pole of the banister, yanking himself up and around and grabbing the third man as he tottered forward on the rebound from the wall.

Pretty soon Padre Sinkovich, who had unearthed enough skeletons to start a mail-order Hal-loween business, was staggering around with bloodshot delirious eyes, furiously booting innumerable bones every which way as the magnificent tintinnabulation somewhere down there literally drove him bananas.

While my laptop was booting on the trestle table, I took a bite of one of the strawberry salads - still half-liquid - and tasted the curry sauce, which was spicy-hot, creamy, and mellowing superbly.

Pertra, decisively standing up and booting his way to the filing-cabinets.

Doc’s bootings brought to light an automatic pistol, a large weapon, of foreign manufacture.

It has dropped out somehow or other in the various revisions – the bootings occurred at Rivendell.

Lord and all this year's conspicuous tech-wonks in mounting the heaters and stringing the lights and running coaxial shunts with ceramic jacks between the Pump Room's main breaker and the Sunstrand grid and booting up the circulation-fans and pneumatic hoists that'll raise the Lung to the inflated shape of a distended igloo, sixteen courts in four rows of four, enclosed and warmed by nothing but fibrous Gore-Tex and AC current and an enormous ATHSCME Exhaust-Flow Effectuator that an ATHSCME crew in one of the ATHSCME helicopters will bring in in a sling and cable and mount and secure on the Lung's nipply nacelle at the top of the inflating dome.

However, systems that are configured to allow booting to other operating systems, may want to ensure that system page file is wiped clean when Windows NT shuts down.

Right when it starts booting up, start pressing the Pause Break key and do not let it detect your drives.

She was already a third of the way to the door-what did she care about a Mac booting up?

During the process of booting up, the screen was briefly a most curious shade of green.

It wasn't very long before we had Oharu stretched out on his bed with his arms and legs duct-taped together and I was booting up Jesse's computer, which I had found in Oharu's desk drawer.

Cassie heard the familiar whirring sound of the computer booting up.

He could look back on a past with function keys and five-and-a-quarter-inch disks, and when booting up your computer meant a whole series of commands and disturbing messages (bad command or file name).