Some installations or settings changes require you to restart your computer. In most cases you don't need to actually reboot it, you only need to restart the explorer.exe process.
Your iPhone or iPad screen all of a sudden won't automatically change orientation from portrait to landscape mode when looking at your photos or watching a video when you turned it over? No biggie.
If you don't want Google to store your chat history and the Google chat history of the person you are chatting with, you can take the chat off the record and this is how you do that.
If you are looking for a certain words on website, bur there's too much text to find it in a reasonable time, you can use a handy find function built in Google Chrome browser.
If you are afraid your friends, kids or any other person you are borrowing your iPad to, might delete an app by mistake or even intentionally, you can enable restrictions on individual all of the apps.