Get This: Your car’s engine is running straight for weeks, would you notice that its sounding weird now and you don’t have that smooth idling as you had before.
Same goes for your PC, restarting it does a lot of “refreshing” things to the
system. It makes it run faster, better, softwares run smoother and initiates
updates (may not be a good thing when you are trying to get things done).
So what exactly restarting the PC does? Let’s figure this out:
1- It clears out the RAM memory.- of what? The RAM or Random Access Memory is an area of disk space that acts as medium of very fast data read and write access for the OS, its drivers and applications to perform their duties. Without it, the applications would have to rely on the other disk space mediums such as hard disk drives and solid state drives which are much slower and far more dense for applications to access at a very fast rate. When the PC is not restarted for a considerable amount of time, various apps (due to how expertly they are written) leave bits and pieces of unused data on the RAM which overtime makes its performance sluggish. Restarting the PC clears out or refreshes the RAM making the PC perform great again.
2- closes unnecessary running processes. A Process in windows is instance of an application. An application such as Google Chrome can have multiple processes running and are terminated when chrome exits. Not all applications are so well disciplined, their processes can linger in the windows background and only a restart can stop them.
3- applies patches
4- any background software update gets settled.
5- fixes internet connection by reconnecting, if dynamic ip, then fetches
another ip.
Lakshay In Tech 