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How Often Should You Reboot Your Computer?

It’s probably the first thing you try when your computer is acting up: turn it off and back on again. But should you restart or shut down? Well that actually depends on what kind of computer you are using. Shutting down your computer will close out of all the programs you’ve been running and clear the cache, so that when you power back up, the machine is running fresh, as there may have been somet