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Originally Posted by disney_mommy
I have a question I've been wondering about for some time and I hope someone can answer it for me here...
After I update my computer or add or delete a program, why does the computer have to restart? Is it some sort of refresh thing that has to happen?
Is it more complicated than that? Does something have to be turned off to finish the installing/uninstalling process?
Why hasn't someone out there come up with some sort of way to do those things without having to restart?
Okay, that's my deep thought for the day.  |
My thought is that you are talking about a Windows PC?? The need to reboot (or restart) the computer is because Windows stores all of its program information in a "registry" which has to have changes made to it when you install, update, or remove a program from the machine.
Windows can't finalize changes to the registry while it is in use, and it is in use the entire time that your computer is running. So, in order to make the changes, it needs you to restart the computer so it can update the registry.