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No. Reset is basically flipping the power off and back on again in a sense. Restarting is actually doing it properly (no data corruption or any of that fun stuff).

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3 minutes ago, GrobfootGaming said:

i have a reset button on my PC case and I use that when I need to restart my computer.  Is this just the same as restarting from the windows desktop?

No. It is what you would describe as not graceful. It will not properly stop any running programs/the OS, so it does have the potential to corrupt data (very unlikely but possible). It is better for the system and your data to gracefully restart via the option inside of windows.

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Using the reset button instead of restarting through Windows has a chance of corrupting or losing data, as it doesn't properly clear data from volatile storage (RAM, for example). It's always best to shutdown/restart through Windows so the OS has time to shut down correctly. Hard reset/shutdown should be used as a last resort when a PC is frozen. 

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8 minutes ago, GrobfootGaming said:

i have a reset button on my PC case and I use that when I need to restart my computer.  Is this just the same as restarting from the windows desktop?

Its not the same. The reset button forces the PC to reset no matter what the PC is doing, while restarting through the OS allows it to properly close everything. The only time the reset button should be used is if your PC froze or something.

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thats how you corrupt your OS

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Reset button is bit same that pressing power button for 3s and then once again would do. It just forces hardware to reboot.

Restart option in OS shuts all processes and softwares like normal shutdown would do. And then restarts whole PC. Much safer.

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