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I assume you mean, does the computer change or erase the information stored on it's memory chips, and the answer is yes, all the time.

Memory chips are the "work area" where a computer conducts all of it's calculations, the space where it runs all it's programs. For example, on a PC, if you start up a browser (i.e. internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari, etc.), the PC loads that browser (a program) into it's memory chips, and then will usually display your home page.

If you start a second program such as a Word Processor, it will load that program into it's memory chips also. Of course, it may get more complicated than that inside the PC. If it doesn't have room for both programs on the memory chips at the same time, it may erase part of the browser from the memory and store it temporarily on your disk drive in what's called a paging area until you ask it to run the browser again.

There are actually alot more details that go on behind the above, but I won't confuse us both by getting into them here.

When you Shut Down your computer, all the information on the memory chips is erased or lost because it relies on electricity (power) to keep it. But disk drives are different, and information can be stored permanently there by your PC, regardless of whether the power is on or not.

Let me know if I can confuse you more.

Peace .... Dave

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