If you’re a PC user, you know that sometimes things just don’t work right after you reboot. Sometimes your apps won’t open, or they’ll open but not work. You can fix this by resetting your PC and making your apps open again. Here’s how:

  1. Open the Start menu and type “reset.”
  2. When the reset screen appears, click on it.
  3. On the reset screen, type “PC.”
  4. Click on " Reset."

CacheMyWork

CacheMyWork is a handy free utility that is light on system resources and will open everything you were working on after a restart. Many times the culprit is automatic updates that download and install automatically while you have a full screen of work opened up. If you want, you can postpone a restart until your ready, but sometimes that isn’t always an option.

This utility is small and easy to use. When you have a full workload open, launch CacheMyWork and it will show all of the apps you have open. Just click the ones you want to make sure restart and save them.

You can also select to have your open Explorer open as well.

After you get back from the reboot, all of the applications you saved will open up and you can get back to your work where you left off.

You might also want to use this during times other than “Patch Tuesday”. It’s handy when you’re working on a lot of apps and need to reboot for any reason. It totally saves you time by opening what was running, so you don’t have to go back and figure out what all was open when you rebooted. It requires you have .NET 2.0 installed on XP SP3, Vista and Windows 7 (32 & 64 bit versions).

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