How exactly does “turning it off and on again” fix such a wide variety of different tech problems?
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Your computer takes little bits of data to make it’s life easier and stores them in memory.
As long as it has some kind of power, like a watch battery in the example of a PC, it keeps them tucked away for future reference.
Over time data can get corrupted, or too much memory is taken up, or it gets stuck. Whatever the reason, you get a problem.
When you power it down it clears the memory and lets the device start from fresh.
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