How to restart a laptop if it freezes

Reboot­ing a frozen lap­top is an “aster­isk task”. And often the friezes are so strong that “Win­dows” does not even respond to Ctrl + Alt + Del. And if a sta­tion­ary PC can be pulled out of the sock­et, then this will not work with a portable PC — it has a bat­tery.

How­ev­er, there are a cou­ple of ways to restart your lap­top if it freezes.

How­ev­er, before try­ing to hard reset a frozen lap­top, it’s worth try­ing a cou­ple of “soft” options.

Option one:

1. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del — three keys at the same time. They are in dif­fer­ent cor­ners of the key­board;

2. If you have Win­dows 10, you should see a bright blue screen. In its low­er right cor­ner there will be a shut­down but­ton through which you can reboot the device;

3. If you have Win­dows 7, then the “Task Man­ag­er” will open. In it, find the unre­spon­sive pro­gram and dis­able it by click­ing on “End task”.

Option two:

1. Press Ctrl+R (two keys on the key­board);

2. If the Run win­dow opens, type shut­down /r in it and press Enter.

3. The process of reboot­ing the oper­at­ing sys­tem should begin.

4. But if these two options did not help, then you will have to urgent­ly turn off the pow­er.

Atten­tion! Do not abuse the fol­low­ing meth­ods, as they lead to accel­er­at­ed wear of com­po­nents. The hard dri­ve is espe­cial­ly hard hit. So use them only as a last resort — if there is no patience left to wait for the lap­top to “droop”, or if strange whistling or click­ing sounds are heard from under the case (espe­cial­ly in the area of ​​the hard dri­ve).

How to reboot with the power button

This method allows you to restart the lap­top if it freezes with­out turn­ing it off. It works just like it does on desk­top com­put­ers.

Instruc­tion:

1. Press the lap­top pow­er but­ton and hold it for 5 sec­onds. Dur­ing this time, the screen may turn off, but you still do not let go until you count to five;

2. Release the but­ton and press it again. The lap­top should turn on.

3. Most like­ly, when boot­ing after that, the oper­at­ing sys­tem will report that the shut­down was per­formed incor­rect­ly and will offer to start in safe mode. If the shut­down is caused by an unre­spon­sive pro­gram, you can ignore this advice and start your sys­tem nor­mal­ly.

And if it freezes due to some changes in the sys­tem, includ­ing the instal­la­tion of dri­vers or incom­pat­i­ble soft­ware, then it is bet­ter to boot into safe mode and remove the appli­ca­tion that inter­feres with the nor­mal oper­a­tion of the com­put­er.

How to restart a laptop by pulling the battery

This option is not for the faint of heart. But, as prac­tice shows, it often helps, even if the lap­top for some rea­son refus­es to turn on after a five-sec­ond reboot after a pow­er out­age.

Instruc­tion:

1. Close the screen, ignor­ing run­ning and hung pro­grams;

2. Dis­able device charg­ing;

3. Turn the device over and remove the bat­tery. Most often, this requires flip­ping two switch­es and pulling the bat­tery up;

4. Leave the com­put­er lying with­out a bat­tery and charg­ing for ten min­utes;

5. Con­nect the bat­tery first, then the charg­er, and turn on the com­put­er.

If the lap­top did not turn on after a hard shut­down (pow­er hold for five sec­onds), but this method helped it “start up”, this indi­cates quite seri­ous prob­lems on the moth­er­board. It is worth con­tact­ing the ser­vice cen­ter.