How exactly does “turning it off and on again” fix such a wide variety of different tech problems?
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A lot of problems are a result of things ending up in a bad/unstable state. Turning the machine off and back on resets the state back to the beginning.
For example, when you start your PC up, there’s a service called “spooler.exe” that gets launched. It handles printing, so if it glitches out or stops running, you can’t print anything. Restarting the PC will also restart that service.
Now it is possible to restart the service without rebooting, but you’d have to figure out that was the problem first. There are many other things that could affect printing. Doing a reboot right off the bat can avoid a lengthy diagnosis process. So it’s a good first step in troubleshooting.
Edit:typo
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