How do you restart your computer?

Answer 1

When you press on the power button (or shut down through an OS) it begins by saving all used data and dumping all RAM (Random Access Memory). This, in turn shuts down the OS and finally the circuitry cuts off power to the motherboard, but not completely, the final click is when capacitors are discharged at the end.

The operating system may intercept an ACPI button event from you pressing the power or sleep button. The OS may also initiate a restart from Start/Shutdown/Restart (Windows) or init 6 / reboot or shutdown command (*NIX).

Once the restart sequence is initiated, the OS may instruct all running programs that a shutdown is in progress. These programs/services in turn will initiate their shutdown process to save data and unload from memory safely. The OS will eventually KILL programs or services that do not support or respond to a shutdown event.

The OS will send a command to the ATX power supply (only ATX supports soft powerdown) if shutting down. Otherwise, the OS will simply issue a command to the CPU to warm boot.

BIOS then takes over the boot process, loads first 512 bytes of detected boot device, jumps to boot loader code and you are back up and running.

In the case of problematic restarts, these may be due to malfunctioning hardware on the bus (add-on cards) or misbehaving drivers. Safe mode or single user boot will rule out most drivers. Failing that, yank non-critical add-on peripherals.

The computer can be restarted by selecting start and than shut down, then restart.

Also, it may be turned off by holding down the turn on button, but that is EXTREMELY UNRECOMMENDED if your computer holds anything important at all. By doing it that way your computer is susceptible to losing data due to improper shutdown. Use it for emergencies only.

There is a fast and good way to restart your computer:

Go to Task Manager => Shutdown Menu => Hold Ctrl key and select Restart or shutdown.

Your computer will be restarted or turned off in 3 Seconds!

Answer 2

On a PC, you press Ctrl + Alt + Del at the same time.

or you can click the start button on the bottom left hand of you screen and choose restart from there, if you do not see restart button you should see a shut down button. If you click that the option to shutdown, restart and stand by should come up in which you can then restart you computer.

Answer 3

PC: Go to the bottom left hand corner and click on 'start' with the Windows symbol next to it. Then, you press turn off computer. It will give you a choice whether to restart it or completely turn it off.

Mac: Go to the top left hand corner and click on the apple symbol. Scroll down the list, and choose 'restart' computer.

Answer 4

When you instruct the operating system to Restart the computer it performs what is called a warm boot. With a warm boot the operating system and most (sometimes all) other data are removed from memory but the power is not removed, so the memory of other hardware devices, such as a video card or network card, etc., may not be cleared. And, depending on the computer, a test of the main board (Post) is not performed.

Answer 5

click on start in the left bottom hand corner. then click on shut down, then it will give the option to turn off or restart.

Answer 6

click restart Or you could turn your computer off then on again. That's what I do when my restart button doesn't work!!

Answer 7

Booting is starting and rebooting is restarting.

Answer 8

Warm Boot