Why is it that when electronic devices malfunction, turning them off then on works so frequently?

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E.g computers, Wi-Fi routers, tvs, consoles. All these items malfunction every once in while and all I do is turn them off then on again to get them working again. Why?

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* Devices like these are tested before they are released.
* The makers try their best to test under many different circumstances.
* However it’s impossible to test them all.
* After a device is running for a long time, it’s possible some combination of values causes a previously unknown error to cause the device to freeze up.
* Restarting it resets all the values in memory and returns the device to its starting condition which is a state that has been tested very thoroughly.

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