COMPUTER SOFTWARE
OPERATING SYSTEMS
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warm boot
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cold boot
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memory reset
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coding
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cold booting is the mechanism of starting a system after it has been turned off. Generally, it is accomplished by pushing the computer’s power button. The “Power on Self-Test” (POST) is performed via cold booting.
Detailed explanation-2: -Booting is the process of starting a computer. It can be initiated by hardware such as a button press or by a software command. After it is switched on, a CPU has no software in its main memory, so some processes must load software into memory before execution.
Detailed explanation-3: -Alternatively called a cold start, hard boot, and hard start, cold boot is the process of powering on a computer from a powered-off state. For example, when you first turn your computer on after being off for the night you are cold booting the computer. Note. A cold boot is never called a cool boot.