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Starting a computer following a power cycle (which could have been a short and intended power cycle, or a long one, or the first time the computer is under power at all) is generally called a cold boot or cold reset, in reflection of the fact that the computer's chips, when not under power, cool down to ambient temperature.
By contrast, restarting or resetting a computer without an intermediate power cycle is called a warm boot or warm reset.
Some system properties will persist over a warm, but not over a cold reset. This allows for a warm reset process to be faster than a cold reset, provided that hardware and software allows for such differentiation.
Since a warm reset doesn't involve a power cycle, a warm reset can also be less stressful (and less comprehensive) to peripheral components. For example, a hard disk drive may continue to run right through a warm reset, without the need to spin down and come to a halt.
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