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  2. Soft reboot - Wikipedia

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    Soft reboot may refer to: A warm reboot , where a computer system restarts without the need to interrupt the power A soft reboot (fiction) , in which a certain degree of continuity is retained

  3. Rufus (software) - Wikipedia

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    Rufus was originally designed [5] as a modern open source replacement for the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool for Windows, [6] which was primarily used to create DOS bootable USB flash drives. The first official release of Rufus, version 1.0.3 (earlier versions were internal/alpha only [ 7 ] ), was released on December 4, 2011, with originally ...

  4. Booting - Wikipedia

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    For example, on a PC with Windows installed on the hard drive, the user could set the boot order to the one given above, and then insert a Linux Live CD in order to try out Linux without having to install an operating system onto the hard drive.

  5. Installation (computer programs) - Wikipedia

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    For instance, a system administrator willing to install a later version of a computer program that is being used can schedule that installation to occur when that program is not running. An operating system may automatically install a device driver for a device that the user connects. (See plug and play.) Malware may also be installed ...

  6. Reboot to restore software - Wikipedia

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    Reboot to restore software is a system of restore technology that enables restoring the user-defined system configuration of a computing device after every restart. [1] The technology maintains systems in their optimal working conditions and is used in multi-user computing environments.

  7. Safe mode - Wikipedia

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    Safe mode is a diagnostic mode of a computer operating system (OS). It can also refer to a mode of operation by application software . Safe mode is intended to help fix most, if not all, problems within an operating system.

  8. Magic SysRq key - Wikipedia

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    Before the advent of journaled filesystems a common use of the magic SysRq key was to perform a safe reboot of a locked-up Linux computer (using the sequence of key presses indicated by the mnemonic REISUB), which lessened the risk of filesystem corruption.

  9. List of installation software - Wikipedia

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    Windows, Mac OS X: Discontinued Trialware: NSIS: Nullsoft: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux: ... Remote Install Mac OS X: Apple Inc. Discontinued Included with Mac OS X AmigaOS.