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  2. Windows Update - Wikipedia

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    Windows Update is a Microsoft service ... before the computer reboots automatically after installing automatic updates that require a reboot. Windows 8 also ...

  3. Booting - Wikipedia

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    When debugging a concurrent and distributed system of systems, a bootloop (also written boot loop or boot-loop) is a diagnostic condition of an erroneous state that occurs on computing devices; when those devices repeatedly fail to complete the booting process and restart before a boot sequence is finished, a restart might prevent a user from ...

  4. Idle (CPU) - Wikipedia

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    An advantage of the latter approach is that programs monitoring the system status can see the idle task along with all other tasks; [citation needed] an example is Windows NT's System Idle Process. Some programs are designed to appear to make use of CPU idle time, meaning that they run at a low priority (but slightly higher than idle priority ...

  5. Reboot to restore software - Wikipedia

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    Deploying solutions based on reboot to restore technology allows users to define a system configuration as the desired state. The baseline is the point that is restored on reboot. Once the baseline is set, the reboot to restore software continues to restore that configuration every time the device restarts or switches on after a shutdown. [3]

  6. Cold start (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In a typical web service system the problem occurs after restarting the server, and also when clearing the cache (e.g., after releasing new version). The first requests to the web service will cause significantly more load due to the server cache being populated, the browser cache being cleared, and new resources being requested.

  7. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    BSoDs in the Windows NT family initially used the 80×50 text mode with a 720×400 screen resolution, but changed to use the 640×480 screen resolution starting with Windows 2000 up to 7. Windows 2000 used its built-in kernel mode font, Windows XP, Vista, and 7 use the Lucida Console font, and Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 used the Segoe UI ...

  8. Crash (computing) - Wikipedia

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    If the program is a critical part of the operating system, the entire system may crash or hang, often resulting in a kernel panic or fatal system error, on Windows this can result in a Blue Screen. Most crashes are the result of a software bug.

  9. Shutdown (computing) - Wikipedia

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    The above is from Windows 7. In Microsoft Windows and ReactOS, a PC or server is shut down by selecting the Shutdown item from the Start menu on the desktop. Options include shutting down the system and powering off, automatically restarting the system after shutting down, or putting the system into stand-by mode.