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View Poll Results: How often do you typically reboot?
Never... only as required by updates or intallations 11 37.93%
Daily 10 34.48%
Whenever the urge takes me 1 3.45%
weekly-biweekly 2 6.90%
other 5 17.24%
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Old 07-26-2010, 12:42 PM   #16
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At work, we leave ours on for backup purposes. So here it is whenever I install software, am prompted to by an update or tell someone to as a first step when they bitch that their (insert software name here) isn't working.

At home, I shut down the laptop when not in use.
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Old 07-26-2010, 12:48 PM   #17
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Dang I meant to vote daily .... not never!!! poop
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Old 07-26-2010, 12:54 PM   #18
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Dang I meant to vote daily .... not never!!! poop

poop daily, never vote
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Old 07-26-2010, 01:18 PM   #19
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Thoughts:

PCs vary according to power consumption. Most of them use as much power as two big light bulbs (incandescents, not the compact fluorescent curly-q bulbs). More modern systems use only as much as one bulb. Power consumption will rise during heavy usage - constant hard-drive access (such as constant virus scanning), or 3d graphics card usage.

If you don't plug into a decent UPS, I think you should not leave the system on 24x7. Power glitches can make your power supply work harder, and it will probably fail faster.

We are entering an era where PC makers are trying to produce more efficient systems. The CPU makers are producing CPUs that don't eat power. The power supply makers are cranking out efficient power supplies. Solid-state disk drives are coming online, which eat a fraction of the power of regular drives.

All modern operating systems have suspended states (like that "hibernate") to save power and boot time. Google is taking a different approach, working on an operating system that boots in seconds. So a system can go from completely off to completely ready in 3 seconds.
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Old 07-26-2010, 10:40 PM   #20
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If I can't fix a problem by killing a process, doing a kernel upgrade, or there's a power outage, then there will be a reboot. I'm running Linux. Current uptime is 27 days.
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Old 07-27-2010, 01:58 AM   #21
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Haven't had to reboot due to crash with the new Win7 computer yet (going on a year now). It gets shut down whenever it'll be unused for more than twenty minutes. Boots up in less than two minutes.
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Old 07-27-2010, 07:57 AM   #22
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Mine also runs slowly with graphics or games like poker on pogo. Occasionally freezes as well. I can't see where a more frequent reboot would change that.
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Old 07-27-2010, 02:07 PM   #23
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Shut down overnight. - During the day I put it in stand-by/hibernate or, when I know I will be away for hours, will shut it down.

Printer and other periphery I only turn on when needed and turn off afterwards.
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Old 07-27-2010, 11:35 PM   #24
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Slow Windows starting is not due to Windows. Many programs (ie Adobe Reader) load all kinds of preliminary programs when you first boot the machine. Therefore the program (ie Reader) appears to load faster when you click on it. Meanwhile you might blame Windows for taking so long.

I have forgotten the command. But you can view a list of all programs that must load when Windows first starts. Then remove many of them so that Windows boots faster.

Or simply Hibernate. Hibernate is a complete power down so that programs need not reload when you restart the machine. So that Windows can reboot much faster.
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Old 07-28-2010, 07:11 AM   #25
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mine still takes 3-4 minutes to come back from hibernation
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Old 07-28-2010, 07:53 AM   #26
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I used to never reboot. Lately, I've begun shutting it down at night, and it seems like it moves faster now, and takes less time to boot up when I turn it on.

It used to take 6-7 minutes to come out of it's coma.... and now it boots up in 3 or 4 minutes. I think it was overheating, being left on all the time.
i just timed this. it takes this POS 8 minutes to boot from off. jesus. i must have been spacing out pretty bad when it seemed like 3 or 4 minutes.
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Old 07-28-2010, 10:00 AM   #27
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I have forgotten the command. But you can view a list of all programs that must load when Windows first starts. Then remove many of them so that Windows boots faster.
In Win 7 it's Control Panel -> System Configuration -> Startup (tab)

There is a much more comprehensive startup tool in Sysinternals:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb963902.aspx

However, if your system is booting for 8 minutes, then the first 5 minutes are still Windows doing its thing. Windows has always been a slow booter.
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Old 07-29-2010, 07:04 AM   #28
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From cold... 7 takes 45 seconds to come up, and virtual XP (including outlook express and photoshop), just over a minute. Under 2 minutes total.
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Old 07-29-2010, 08:37 AM   #29
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ok ... my comp has issues.
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Old 07-29-2010, 09:07 AM   #30
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Mine: 3 minutes of "starting windows", 4 minutes to desktop, 6 minutes to usable desktop.
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