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  2. Does your Windows 11 PC keep restarting? Let's fix that ... - AOL

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    Select Recovery. Choose Open System Restore. Click Next. Now you will click on your hard drive and select finish.Your computer will automatically restart. An overheating laptop or desktop will try ...

  3. Display lag - Wikipedia

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    In order to display non-native resolutions, such displays must use video scalers, which are built into most modern monitors. As an example, a display that has a native resolution of 1600x1200 being provided a signal of 640x480 must scale width and height by 2.5x to display the image provided by the computer on the native pixels.

  4. Hang (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In many cases programs may appear to be hung, but are making slow progress, and waiting a few minutes will allow the task to complete. Modern operating systems provide a mechanism for terminating hung processes, for instance, with the Unix kill command, or through a graphical means such as the Task Manager's "end task" button in Windows (select the particular process in the list and press "end ...

  5. Power-on self-test - Wikipedia

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    Typical POST screen (AMI BIOS) Typical UEFI-compliant BIOS POST screen (Phoenix Technologies BIOS) Summary screen after POST and before booting an operating system (AMI BIOS) A power-on self-test ( POST ) is a process performed by firmware or software routines immediately after a computer or other digital electronic device is powered on.

  6. Here's your once-and-for-all fix for a slow computer - AOL

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    Here's how to fix it. Your computer's been collecting more cookies than a bakery window and working in overdrive to keep up with you. ... You aren’t the only one feeling over-extended during ...

  7. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    The Blue Screen of Death on Windows 10 (v2004–22H2) and Windows 11 (build 22000.348 onwards), with all references of "PC" being changed to "device". The Blue Screen of Death on Windows 11 (builds 22000.51–22000.346), using a black background instead of blue (apart from the QR code).

  8. Screen tearing - Wikipedia

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    Screen tearing [1] is a visual artifact in video display where a display device shows information from multiple frames in a single screen draw. [ 2 ] The artifact occurs when the video feed to the device is not synchronized with the display's refresh rate.

  9. Troubleshooting - Wikipedia

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    Troubleshooting is a form of problem solving, often applied to repair failed products or processes on a machine or a system. It is a logical, systematic search for the source of a problem in order to solve it, and make the product or process operational again. Troubleshooting is needed to identify the symptoms.