How to restart my dell laptop
The solution is to hold down the physical power button on your laptop for 6 seconds, this gives the laptop enough time to “safely” shut itself down and ensure that all internal components have enough time to close correctly without damage. Method 3 – The “Brown Out”Ī brown out is when your laptop shuts down using the power button without damaging the hard drive.īack in the days of Windows 3.1 (Yup, I’m that old) you used to have to “park” the hard drive needle before closing down Windows, if you did not do this then the moveable needle arm which scans your hard drive would stay in its current position and when you restarted your computer may struggle to reboot Windows and you could end up in trouble. To reboot your Dell Inspiron laptop choose “Restart”.
Again, choose the best option for your (which to reboot is to choose Restart).
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6.4 How to factory reset a Dell Inspiron 15 Method 1 – Reboot using the standard Windows-based method