Restart Now or Restart Later? Why it is preferable to do it 'Now'

Have you ever initiated a task or triggered an action on your PC and when it is completed you get this prompt asking you to restart now or restart later?

You had better restart 'now' and not 'later' - see why below;

Whenever you are required to restart after a computed event, it means the event is not fully completed and the restart is part of the event itself before it can successfully complete. 

Though we computer scientist do design both restart mode (now and later) to end with similar result, however a simple vulnerability can prevent that.

The 'restart now' option considers all you were doing during a computing event, and when you take the 'now' option (whether you close all apps or not), the computation adopts all current activities 'in real-time' and completes the event successfully with that in memory.

The 'restart later' option does not take all your current activities in real-time, it simply stores a signature state of your current activities in memory when necessary, and try to reproduce this signature state when restarting later. 

It is important to know that a vulnerability or a security breach can alter this stored state and might render the computing event you are restarting for unsuccessful.

Take for instance, while typing in Microsoft word, at the same time you are chatting on Facebook using the Google chrome browser, while you are multitasking, you do an antivirus scan which ends with a restart prompt asking you to 'restart now' or 'restart later', my advice is that you close the word application and the chrome browser, then restart immediately - do not restart later.

If you choose the 'restart later' option, the antivirus program might need to know the current state of your computer - meaning keeping a signature state of your word application and chrome browser - and when the system is restarting later, this state might need to be reproduced in memory before a resolution to all the security issues detected by the antivirus program is resolved.

The above is just one-in-a-million example of when the restart now and restart later prompt occurs.

My advice here is just for optimal result only, so you don't end up with failed or unsuccessful computing routine on your computer; it does not negate the relevance of we software developers' implementation of a 'now and later' prompt. 

Good luck with computing.