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Benefits of Restarting Your Computer
Performing a restart of your computer at least once a week ensures that updates are applied to resolve bugs, add features, and apply security updates. It’s the first step in troubleshooting issues.
Restarting your computer also provides these additional benefits:
- Frees up memory, which, in turn, helps with performance
- Improves software performance
- Helps resolve hardware and software issues
Before restart, save any open files and close any active applications. Learn how.
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