1. A method comprising: acquiring a request, the request associated with writing information to a memory device or erasing information stored in the memory device, the memory device being contained in a first computing device; saving the request for execution by the first computing device after a user visible event has been generated on the first computing device, the user visible event being generated after the first computing device has been reset; resetting the first computing device; generating the user visible event on the first computing device; and executing the saved request after the user visible event has been generated.