---
title: "Why Reboot? This software will help with the answer."
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/2/1/why-reboot-this-software-will-help-with-the-answer.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/2/1/why-reboot-this-software-will-help-with-the-answer.html"
published: "2006-02-01T18:03:00"
updated: "2006-02-01T18:03:00"
tags: ["Cool Tools"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Why Reboot? - Nifty little application that displays the pending file operations on your computer, so you know just why it's demanding a reboot after a software install. [via Larkware ] Nice!"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# Why Reboot? This software will help with the answer.

By Roy Osherove February 1, 2006 In [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

**Historical article** · Originally published February 1, 2006; technical details may be outdated.

- [Why Reboot?](http://www.exodus-dev.com/products/WhyReboot/) - Nifty little application that displays the pending file operations on your computer, so you know just why it's demanding a reboot after a software install.

\[via [Larkware](http://www.larkware.com/dg5/TheDailyGrind810.html)\]

Nice!

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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