Do I have to turn off computer over night ?
I have a Dell lap top and have been turning it off every night. Is this necessary. It takes a long time to boot up in the morning. I have win 8.1
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Jacksons wrote:
you don't need to re-boot to clear the cache.
You can clear the browser cache pretty easily, but that doesn't clear everything. Every program that runs on your computer reserves some memory space to run. A well written program will release the memory that it has reserved if you exit the program properly. If you don't shut it off properly or the program isn't well written, the operating system continues to reserve that memory space and other programs can't use it. The only way that I'm aware of to release the memory space is by logging out and back on or rebooting.
Just as an example, I have some photo editing software that I use and it isn't well written. I have to reboot my computer after I use it or other programs give me an "out of memory" error or just won't load. Sometimes the computer gets very slow or locks up after I use the software.
