Eli5 why does a program/app “hang up” and fail to load, but trying again makes it happen?
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Lots of reasons. An app may want to “phone home” and look for updates before continuing and your internet connection isn’t good. App appears to hang. App may need more memory and the OS is busy with all the other apps and is thrashing. Your app appears hung. Every resource your app needs from network to memory or screen or storage it has to call the operating system and typically wait. Then again it may have crummy code and certain startup conditions get it confused and in some infinite loop or deadly embrace for resources and appear unresponsive. You restart it and it detects a failed start and defaults to a common startup conditions and works. Hard to tell, really.
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