cold boot

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Starting the computer by turning power on. Turning power off and then back on again clears memory and many internal settings. Some program failures will lock up the computer and require a cold boot to use the computer again. In other cases, only a warm boot is required. See boot, warm boot and clean boot.

(operating system)

cold boot - A boot from power off.

Contrast warm boot.

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