Whether you’re using Windows 98 or Windows Seven one thing remains constant: If you’re having problems with your Windows computer, no matter what they are, the first thing you should try is rebooting. Whether you’re having problems with installing a program, running a program, opening a folder, opening a file, or your computer is running like Granny Gertrude in a senior potato sack race, rebooting is the first thing you should try.
Why? Because, you might spend hours trying to figure out what is wrong and never find a thing. Before you waste time looking through tips, tricks or Googling for the answer, you might find that rebooting will fix whatever ails your computer.
Rebooting flushes your memory cache, reloads all Windows system files and gives your computer a fresh start. Everything’s reloaded, memory is cleared, and that, my friends, can make a world of difference.
So before you waste hours of time trying to figure out a problem, save your time and the frustration of trying to find a solution to a problem that may be solved by something as simple as restarting your computer. We’ve learned this lesson the hard way, many times. We’ve wasted time looking for solutions to problems that seemed to disappear after we rebooted. And, often, in the frustration of the moment, when you’re computer seems destined for oblivion, simply restarting it might take care of whatever was wrong. Of course, if it the problem keeps recurring, even after you restart your computer, you’re going to have to dig down and find the source of the problem and fix it. But save all that work for later. The first step in troubleshooting is rebooting.
I was just uninstalling some things and one said to disable the antivirus to get rid of it. I opened MSE and found nothing to disable it but somehow got it surrounded with ORANGE color and stated at the top I was unprotected but the green light was still checked that I was protected. I tried to install MSE then got a message I could only have one on my computer and to remove the one on my computer to do that. It did not complete so I rebooted and my problem was fixed and that was my first reboot of the day to see if you had put anything new on the left column of your start page as I check there daily and sure enough there was your page telling me just what I did so now I feel things are good again. I so look for new things there EVERY day and I go to the pages and e-mail them to myself and I have them stored in a Cloudeight HINTS folder. Thanks so much for sharing all your knowledge with us folks. I have learned so much from you two.