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How to Reboot a Computer

How to Reboot a Computer Did you know that there's a right way, and several wrong ways, to reboot (restart) a computer? It's not an ethical dilemma—one method ensures that problems don't happen and a myriad of others are risky, at best. You certainly could reboot your computer by powering it off and on, swapping out the AC power or battery, or hitting the reset button, but each of those methods is a bit of a "surprise" to your computer's operating system. The result of that surprise could be nothing if you're lucky, but more likely it could cause issues from file corruption up to the very serious problem of a computer that won't even start! You might be restarting your computer to get to Safe Mode but a common reason is that you're probably restarting your computer to fix a problem, so be sure you're doing it the right way so you don't end up creating another one. How to Reboot a Computer To safely restart a Windows...