How Often Do You Reboot Your PC

[Penny]

Mine has been on for a cpl weeks now.

[GeekMaster]

I do a "cold" (turn the computer completly off) reboot at least once a day. There is a functin of Windows known as system resources. Every time you use a progam, browser, etc., it uses a small part of the system resources that do not replenish until you reboot.


Gotta Love Bill Gates!!! (After all, he is a fello geek!!)

[GeekMaster]

For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on.




At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated,


"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."




In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating:




If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics (and I just love this part):




1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash........
Twice a day.



2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.


3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.




4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.




5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads.




6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light.




I love the next one!!!




7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.




8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.




9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.

[hoss]

* Convenience: For many people who run multiple applications at a time, having to reboot the PC every morning is a pain in the rear end. It can take me a good 10 minutes in the morning to boot my machine and get my working environment set up the way I like it. Also, I like to run maintenance tasks during the day while I am at work. I will concede that not turning off the PC because you don't want to restart all your applications may be laziness on my part, but it is a significant reason why many people leave their machines on overnight.

* Power Consumption: Leaving your PC running when you are not using it wastes electricity. That's a fact, so I won't sugar-coat it. On the other hand, it doesn't waste that much electricity, if you leave the monitor off (which you should be doing anyway). You can also use power management to reduce the amount of electricity used during idle periods.

* Thermal Stress: After your PC has been off for many hours the components will be at room temperature. When the PC is turned on, the components will heat up, sometimes to much higher temperatures than 70 degrees F, causing them to expand. Then when you turn off the PC they cool down again, and contract. This cycle of heating and cooling causes thermal stress in the components that make up the PC, and is a leading cause of system failure (this is also what normally causes light bulbs to fail, which is why they usually pop when you turn them on, and not out of the blue). Leaving the PC on all the time greatly reduces thermal stress, which can lead to increased life for the system. Strange as it may seem, most components last longer if you leave then running 24 hours a day for years than if you leave them off for 22 hours a day and on for only 2 (but this isn't true of all components.)

* Wearout: The opposite factor to thermal stress is wearout. While leaving the PC on all the time reduces thermal stress and hence prolongs system life, it also causes components to wear out more quickly. This is more of a factor for some components than others--especially monitors.

* Cooling: It is important to remember that some office buildings run with automated thermostats that turn off the air conditioning at night; if it's 95 during the day and 80 at night, the PC will be quite warm in the morning when the power comes on. In this case you may be risking the system overheating by leaving it running at night.

* Risk of Power Interruption: Leaving your PC on for long periods of time exposes it to the potential risk of power spikes and surges, brownouts, blackouts and other problems. If you are using a good-quality UPS then this is not really a factor, although remember that unless your UPS supports power-down signaling to shut down the machine, a one-hour blackout will result in about the same abrupt shut-off of your machine, just a few minutes later than it would without a UPS. If you are not using a UPS, and you are in an area prone to power problems, leaving the machine on all the time may be unwise (you should be using a good power conditioning device if this is the case, anyway).


i leave mine on ,as i dl a lot of stuff....i usually reboot a few times a week...

[GeekMaster]

I leave mine on ,as i dl a lot of stuff....i usually reboot a few times a week...

For a Canadian, you're pretty smart!!!:55

I leave my computers (I have 2 with a KVM switch. I know...) on 24/7 except the few minutes it takes to do a cold reboot once a day.

I double agree with you about the UPS. Best protection you can by for the hardware in your computer.

[hoss]

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For a Canadian, you're pretty smart!!!:55

I leave my computers (I have 2 with a KVM switch. I know...) on 24/7 except the few minutes it takes to do a cold reboot once a day.

I double agree with you about the UPS. Best protection you can by for the hardware in your computer.

sorry ol man ...i cant take credit ..i found it on the net ..but i thought it had alot of good points ....:wa:

[fly]

For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on.






At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated,


"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."




In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating:




If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics (and I just love this part):








Geek thank you....this is TOO funny!!! I loved it!

[OICurready4me]

I do a "cold" (turn the computer completly off) reboot at least once a day. There is a functin of Windows known as system resources. Every time you use a progam, browser, etc., it uses a small part of the system resources that do not replenish until you reboot.


Gotta Love Bill Gates!!! (After all, he is a fello geek!!)


If you use Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint or Access alot, these really have alot of memory "leaks" and will suck up the system resources faster. So if you use these programs alot, you should probably re-boot ever 3 days or so. You don't want your system to hang up on you in the middle of preparing a document.

[hoss]

For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on.








At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated,


"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."


















I got one more to add....

we all be driving cars that were called Vista ....and we wouldnt be able to buy bigger tires or seat covers ,or buy a new stero ,or new flashy rims beacuse they dont fit the car.. ..we wouldnt be able to drive it cause the gas isnt compatiable with the car ...and its rated at doing a 100 in 2 days....and the first thing after buying the car we would have to spend another $4000 just to get it to run .....

way to go Bill...another piece of shit OS...:nu

[GeekMaster]

I got one more to add....

we all be driving cars that were called Vista ....and we wouldnt be able to buy bigger tires or seat covers ,or buy a new stero ,or new flashy rims beacuse they dont fit the car.. ..we wouldnt be able to drive it cause the gas isnt compatiable with the car ...and its rated at doing a 100 in 2 days....and the first thing after buying the car we would have to spend another $4000 just to get it to run .....

way to go Bill...another piece of shit OS...:nu

I will probably never install Vista on my computer(s).

[hoss]

I will probably never install Vista on my computer(s).

imagine all those people that spent money for it ..then it turns out they cant run it ....its alot of fluff wrapped up nice ....fricking thing doesnt even reboot....
thinking of going to the new version of Linux...or save up for a Mac....

[Penny]

I want a new Mac, that TV commercial has me hooked. :D

[cherokeered]

I turn my laptop off every morning and unplug it before I go out for the day....on the weekends I turn it off but leave it plugged in....my laptop is on from about 530 every night until about 620 every morning....but I have a time difference with Tiger..so it is what it is...lol

That is why I ty to give it a rest when not here...poor thing is on all weekend...lol

[MCat]

We reboot ours about 3 times a week.

[MagicalMerlin]

Try to keep my well oiled and maintenced. Memory dumps are bad! No magic there!

[spare_change]

A computer that is on is connected - a computer that is connected is vulnerable - a computer that is vulnerable WILL be hacked -- it's just a matter of time.

How many are aware that there are COMPANIES out there who "borrow" early morning processing time on connected home computers to run complicated and complex computations? The US military, for example, has a distributed computer system, consisting of over 1500 PCs, that runs complex computations on a distributed processing scheme, beginning in the very early morning? Fortunately, the computers all belong to the military, and are used for administrative purposes during the day. But, it could be yours ......

[hoss]

A computer that is on is connected - a computer that is connected is vulnerable - a computer that is vulnerable WILL be hacked -- it's just a matter of time.

How many are aware that there are COMPANIES out there who "borrow" early morning processing time on connected home computers to run complicated and complex computations? The US military, for example, has a distributed computer system, consisting of over 1500 PCs, that runs complex computations on a distributed processing scheme, beginning in the very early morning? Fortunately, the computers all belong to the military, and are used for administrative purposes during the day. But, it could be yours ......

Good point Mr.Change...

if u want to know how vunerable u are to being hacked, google
Sheilds Up ,A EXCELLENT site that will scan to see if u have any ports open ,another is Symantec ,they offer a free security scan to see if u are open to hackers...make sure u have a firewall as well as a good virus program ...

for more information go here :

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10363568/


(http://www.google.ca/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel)

[yaser]

We reboot ours about 3 times a week.
My computer is rebooted when you put sexy avatars.

[hank69]

cold ..reboot everyday......

[oc_guy_32]

I reboot every day...

[UltimateNaneki]

I do a "cold" (turn the computer completly off) reboot at least once a day. There is a functin of Windows known as system resources. Every time you use a progam, browser, etc., it uses a small part of the system resources that do not replenish until you reboot.


Gotta Love Bill Gates!!! (After all, he is a fello geek!!)

Does it really matter?
can I leave my laptop on for a long period of time?:sc

[c50t]

Mac person here<----
Go for it Penny. Make the leap.

[PunkyBob]

I've decided to defenestrate my office...and get a Mac next time. Been working with both platforms since day one...and Mac always wins hands down. More expensive, but worth it!

[PunkyBob]

Oh, right...I boot up every morning...saves electric...

[My_Secrets_Kept]

boot mine up every morning and have to reboot a couple times a day depending on how much use it's getting, when I'm not going to be home I shut it down

[nolarry]

usually every night

[stevelooking]

alot, sepeacially when i on this site. very frustrating.

[stevelooking]

alot, especially when i on this site. very frustrating. i get booted.

[AL(m)]

Every morning....

[Fargo...really]

I try to remember to turn my computer off each night, as the "botnets" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet) that Spare referred to are pretty sophisticated these days and turning it off shields my computer for at least a few hours a day (hopefully from becoming a zombie computer, but if not at least from doing a botnet's dirty work while I am sleeping).