reboot

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Well, it helped, but then later, my applications would not work sometime, and the reboot was the answer.

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  1. transitive verb To turn (a computer or operating system) off and then on again; restart.

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  • Well, it helped, but then later, my applications would not work sometime, and the reboot was the answer. —  Discussions: Message List - root
  • So it's time for a reboot, and it looks like Nintendo of America is actually pushing —  1UP RSS feed
  • The Brit director has rewritten the script for Warner Bros. 'reboot, which is inspired as much by Lionel Wigram's eponymous comic book as it is by Doyle's tomes and knocks the Victorian stuffiness out of the tale to buff up Holmes as a bare-knuckle boxer and martial-arts expert … —  Premiere's Movie News and Views
  • Freedom enforces freedom; a reboot is the only circumvention of the Freedom time limit you specify. —  mediabistro.com: Media News
  • Of course, we need to see that this reboot is a drastic improvement over the original and there are so many important factors that go into making that possible. —  FirstShowing.net
 

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