eli5 Why does turning an Electronic device Off and on work

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I’ve been wondering that how does unplugging a device and plugging it back in work?
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It’s like cleaning up your desk. As you work, you put some notes here, maybe you eat lunch or a snack and have dishes to a side, pens and other stuff strewn about. Eventually it becomes hard to move your mouse because there’s no more space. So you pick up everything, throw away your notes, put your pens away. Now you have a pristine desk with plenty of space to work. That’s what turning a computer off and on again does. All of the bits of data in its temporary memory all of the commands in its instruction queue, they all get thrown out and it gets to start doing work with a clean desk.

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