I have more faith in a cold boot than a warm boot to clear up computer glitches.

[raccoon]

What say you, DU’ers?

[lastlib]

1. yup, agreed

Complete shutdown clears more out of memory, closes all processes, and retains fewer settings on the hard drive. Much cleaner way to go.

[MichaelSoE]

2. no argument here

and it's not even a matter of faith

[hobbit709]

3. 99+% of the time a Restart will clear things up.

When it doesn't, a complete shutdown and start may or may not fix it.

Of course I clean out my Temp folders on a regular basis.

[ChromeFoundry]

4. If it looks like hardware,

like USB ports stop working or Video gets flakey, I perform a cold reboot.

If it's just software, like memory leaks or data corruption, then a warm reboot should suffice.

[Warren Stupidity]

5. Unless your glitches are hardware related, it makes no difference.

These days hardware reliability far exceeds that of software.

[RoccoR5955]

6. ABSOLUTELY!

The ONLY way to clear all the memory is to reboot.
I find that clearly 50% of computer problems can be "fixed" with a cold reboot.