PC Reboot

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So everyone knows that Windows crashes all the time and you have to keep rebooting. Plenty of people reboot daily even if nothing goes wrong, I am sure many turn their PC off at night. I keep mine on at night, I tend to leave software running on it, for some reason I got curious about how long it has been up today so I worked out how to check.

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System Boot Time: 18/12/2012, 10:35:06

Which according to Task Manager is an Up Time of 44 days, 00 hours, 48 minutes (and counting). That's not bad. Windows 7, bog standard spec. Presumably I just don't do enough work to stress it enough :-D

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OriginalGriff · System Boot Time: 18/12/2012, 10:35:06

Back in the bad old days I worked in a coach house in the bosses grounds. His wife went away for a weekend, so we dug a trench, built a window seat in her kitchen, ran the co-ax and installed a Windows 3.11 PC in the seat. It ran as a file server without any reboots for over three years, until it overheated and we had to turn it off to let it cool down. That's when she found out we had sneaked a computer into her house, a thing she had absolutely forbidden... :-O

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Nagy Vilmos · System Boot Time: 18/12/2012, 10:35:06

My retardon has gone t'up twice this morning already. In defence of Windows [never thought I'd say that] it has a fracked power supply so any nudge will cause power to be lost and all go bang. Another reason for needing a new job, I need a new lappy.

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glennPattonWork3 · System Boot Time: 18/12/2012, 10:35:06

I'm one of the people who turn their PC off, since I saw one (severval years ago) spitting sparks from the power supply ( I'm guessing it was an early switch mode!) while happily running. :wtf:

Bergholt Stuttley Johnson · System Boot Time: 18/12/2012, 10:35:06

No adobe then, that explains it

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My first 'IT' job had a small network of 4ish Windows 3.11 PCs. If a program on one of them crashed all the others had to be rebooted too.

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My laptop at home is like that. Battery does not work unless plugged in, original power supply eventually stopped working, so now it has the power supply from something else wedged into it. It ran out of space on its hard-drive yesterday too. Should probably get a new one some time.

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We had a PC do that last year some time. What's that strange noise? What's that strange smell? Why are there sparks coming out of that computer? Best if we pull the plug out. Someone was working from home on it at the time through Citrix. Phoned up, I've lost connection, can someone check my PC please.

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CPallini · System Boot Time: 18/12/2012, 10:35:06

ChrisElston wrote:

So everyone knows that Windows crashes all the time and you have to keep rebooting.

I am not in this group of folks. My Windows OSs were, so far, solid like rocks.

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Back in the bad old days I worked in a coach house in the bosses grounds

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Rage · System Boot Time: 18/12/2012, 10:35:06

Last BSOD I got was back in the times of Windows Me (I know, but long story, I had to, believe me). I almost never reboot. Actually, Windows 8 does not reboot even if you shut down the computer, so there is no real choice anymore.

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jim lahey · System Boot Time: 18/12/2012, 10:35:06

Windows has improved to almost beyond recognition in this respect. Even the power options work properly, I can get my laptop to hibernate when the lid closes and it wakes up again without so much as a bluescreen - that has not always been the case. It also doesn't come to a grinding halt when you don't reboot for weeks.

BillWoodruff · System Boot Time: 18/12/2012, 10:35:06

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Dan Neely · System Boot Time: 18/12/2012, 10:35:06

About a decade ago I regularly had 2-3 month uptimes with win2k; and knew someone who went almost 2 years before a power failure drained his ups. Now I rarely go beyond ~35 days due to patch Tuesday; but excluding failing hardware more than one crash/year is uncommon on any of my systems.

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Dave Kreskowiak · System Boot Time: 18/12/2012, 10:35:06

Speak for yourself! My machines are on 24 hours a day, with the only reboots ever occuring on patch Tuesday, once a month.

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dandy72 · System Boot Time: 18/12/2012, 10:35:06

ChrisElston wrote:

So everyone knows that Windows crashes all the time and you have to keep rebooting.

I might have had this conversation over a decade ago. Seriously, I haven't seen an actual Windows crash in about that much time, excluding bad drivers (and even that's been a long time), or bad hardware. Like others in this thread, I only reboot after Patch Tuesdays, and would practically never reboot otherwise. Most of my systems (bunch of VMs on the same Hyper-V host) are on 24/7...no sleeping, no hibernation, no restart.

jschell · System Boot Time: 18/12/2012, 10:35:06

ChrisElston wrote:

So everyone knows that Windows crashes all the time and you have to keep rebooting.

Not me. Pretty much know that it completely untrue for most business users and for many servers. Of course crappy software, not the OS, can cause problesm.

ChrisElston wrote:

Plenty of people reboot daily even if nothing goes wrong, I am sure many turn their PC off at night.

I am rather certain that plenty of people pay to have the their horoscope cast each day as well.

ChrisElston wrote:

Presumably I just don't do enough work to stress it enough

Means you are not installing security patches.

SoMad · System Boot Time: 18/12/2012, 10:35:06

We develop, build and sell PC based video recorders for the security industry. Our confirmed record up-time of a working system in the field is over 3 years, 5 months. That was running on Windows 2000 in a closed network, so it did not receive Windows updates. Traditionally we have been doing software based video compression, so the units are never at zero percent CPU usage. Even many years ago when we were running on Windows 98, we had to account for GetTickCount() wrapping around every 49 days. Soren Madsen

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kreigle · System Boot Time: 18/12/2012, 10:35:06

ChrisElston wrote:

So everyone knows that Windows crashes all the time and you have to keep rebooting.

I've beent old that, but my WinXP box at home runs for months at a time. Usually only needs rebooted when it fills up with enough dust to overheat. It then gets shut down, vacuumed out and restarted. The only time it really gets messed up is when the 4-yr old gets into the room and plays with the power button. :doh: