Why do we Always Refresh our Computer?

Today a thought came to my mind that why do we refresh our computer? What actually happens? You know almost 90% of people around the world keep refreshing not knowing what exactly refreshing does. They keep doing ‘right-click – refresh’ .. ‘right-click – refresh’.. just after their desktop is loaded. And well you can even count me in the list of people who don’t know what refresh does. I just knew that it makes PC faster and more active. But the question is How? How does the computer make itself faster by refreshing?

So I searched over the internet for an answer. And I couldn’t actually get an official answer from any site. But I found some answers from the internet users and yahoo answers. So grouping together all the information, I will try to answer the question.

What is the meaning of Refresh ( F5 ) in Computers?

Refreshing can be related to Human behavior. Just as we get tired by doing a certain task and need to refresh to become active to do other tasks, Even the computer gets tired after running programs for a long time. The word tired in technical terms means the computer becomes slow. And after refreshing the computer, it becomes more active.

What happens when we Refresh the Computer? (Technically)

1. When you run a program it will load on to the memory. It will reside in a certain sector until you end the program. As you kill or terminate a program, the restore point of the process is still in the memory for a while. So you when you press F5 or refresh, you are cleaning the loaded (resided sector) on the memory.
2. Refreshing makes computer to run faster by clearing its previously completed job cycle, thereby reducing response time for each cycle.
3. Hence, in short, it frees up the ram used for various purposes and fastens your PC.

Why Refresh your Computer?

Although your windows automatically refresh at the default frequency of 60 Hz, You can manually refresh using F5. Or by right clicking on your desktop and selecting refresh option. The question is why to refresh? The answer is simple. As seen in this post, Refreshing will just help you to make your computer active and thus speed it up. People also use refresh to check whether their PC is working at proper speed or not.

I hope you found this article helpful. 🙂