It’s the most common answer to our computing woes: when your PC or smartphone is acting up, try turning it off and on again. Or, alternatively, rebooting.To understand the concept of a “reboot”, it’s helpful to first understand what a boot means as far as computers are concerned. The word comes from the expression “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps”, which I’ve never fully understood, but apparently means “improve yourself by your own efforts.”

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An easy fix most of the time