When a computer starts running extremely slow and a simple restart fixes it, what is really happening?
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Applications are allowed to consume memory and use resources as much as the computer is equipped with.
Unfortunately that makes developers sloppy when it comes to memory management.
They forget to clean up after closing those apps or do a poor job doing so.
Operating systems are also not very smart to free resources or control apps memory’s consumption.
The longer you keep the computer running the more chances of memory not freed properly leading eventually to consume it all leaving the operating system struggling to find any for new apps.
The only solution left is to restart the computer resulting a force reset of the memory.
Now read above again but for CPU.
Some apps still run in the background even though you closed them and restarting the computer might skip them (unless it is part of the boot process)
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