Did you know there are 2 types of reboot that you can do that can resolved many issues?
You can do this with all types of equipment from printers, routers, switches, mobile devices and so on.
So whats the difference between a warm reboot and a cold one?
Cold Reboot is where you turn the computer completely off and remove the power cord so there is no power to the system.
Warm reboot is where you restart windows or Mac from the desktop and it simply restarts. The power never goes off on a warm reboot like the cold reboot does.
The advantage of Cold reboot is that it releases anything that is stuck in memory. If you are getting error messages or other issues, it might be because something is stuck in memory. When you do a cold reboot, it clears the memory.
A warm reboot doesn't release items stuck in memory. Only a cold reboot does.
The only thing a warm reboot does is for installing software. Software sometimes requires modification of a system file. The system file cannot be altered if it is in use, the install program will update it when you restart (warm boot) the computer. When it reboots the system file is not in use and is able to be updated.
So if you are experiencing issues like;
- Slowness
- Freezing
- Programs not opening correctly
- And many more