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been there your computer won't respond to Mouse clicks the keyboard on your
smartphone is stopped working or your game console suddenly gets stuck in
perma's screenshot mode fortunately there's often an easy fix for these
catastrophic crashes turn it off and then turn it back on again and then
oftentimes the issue has mysteriously
vanished like sleeping off a night of heavy drinking but why does rebooting or
at least restarting a problematic program seemed to be some kind of
magical cure-all for your technology well it comes down to the fact that most
computer freezes happen because of some kind of mishap that your system can't
recover from on its own think of it this way suppose you're on a road trip and
you see that the road is blocked off ahead because a truck overturned and
Spilled five tons of thumbtacks but that
doesn't pose a problem for you since you can just take the nearest exit navigate
a few back roads and then get back on the highway a short while later but then
let's say later on you come across a collapsed Bridge that's the only way to
access a river for hundreds of miles on either side unless you somehow figure
out a way to Your Wagon and float it across without losing a hundred
pounds of buffalo meat you don't have any choice but to turn back around the
way you came and start Down A New Path computers work similarly when they
encounter a problem if the issue is more minor your system might be smart enough
to work around it on its own for example if you're using a wired Ethernet
connection and your adapter starts to misbehave it can transition over to
Wi-Fi no problem so that you can carry on computing kind of like the Thumbtack
truck example but in more serious cases like the collapsed Bridge your computer
simply can't find a way through or
around once they occur and it has to
start back at square one sometimes code is written in a way that
whatever program you're running expects some resource it's using to be present
and behave a certain way a good example of this is certain blue screens of death
in Windows such as the infamous page fault in non-paged area which in
layman's terms means that Windows was trying to access a piece of data in
memory that simply wasn't there and the
code doesn't know what to do next kind of like when you encounter a vaguely
worded exam question on a topic you didn't study in this case rebooting
forces the Windows code to reload from
the very beginning getting your system functioning again but even if your
computer isn't hopelessly stuck in a blue screen it may be running very
sluggishly due to a temperamental individual program
badly written code can be stymied when it encounters an unexpected problem like
in the Windows example or certain conditions can cause it to run in what's
called an infinite Loop like like a trick dictionary that keeps sending you
back and forth between two words Loops can hog lots of CPU time on your
computer since the program won't stop and they can also make it difficult to
force quit the program meaning that a reboot can break the loop and get you
running again so that you can angrily uninstall the offending application and
even applications that are behaving more or less normally can open up background
processes that can hog memory or CPU
Cycles or be affected themselves by
other malfunctioning programs so a reboot will kill those processes and
when your system starts back up only what it normally loads will be present
in memory and since errors that programs simply aren't smart enough to recover
from are so common turning it off and turning it back on again has become one
of the key components of becoming your family's resident I.T expert along with
the basic ability to search Google for troubleshooting tips
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