We all dread the moment that our computers freeze up on us. I’m not talking about a Blue Screen of Death or a Kernel Panic. Those are bad enough, especially if you had just finished the perfect, final draft of a document but hadn’t yet hit [Save]. But even after a disorderly and unexpected shutdown of that sort, your computer will generally start back up again, usually automatically, and you can carry on where you left off...
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