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How often do you boot your Windows?

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    four times a day or more...
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    three times
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    two time
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    once a day
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    once every two days
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    every three days
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    every four days
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    once a week or less...
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    Never

How often do you start your Windows?

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Post November 3rd, 2008, 5:35 am

How often do you boot usually? I'm talking about your typical reboot behaviour. Let aside those days of software or driver installing. Which force you to reboot.

If you turn on your pc every day and usually you don't restart it, you should vote "once a day"
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Post November 3rd, 2008, 5:58 am

The last choice should say 'once a week or LESS' not more.
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Post November 3rd, 2008, 6:05 am

The only time I reboot is when I am forced to by either software installs or updates. Other than that my PC's run 24/7.
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Post November 3rd, 2008, 6:54 am

Probably once a day :).
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Post November 3rd, 2008, 7:37 am

grinch2171 wrote:
The only time I reboot is when I am forced to by either software installs or updates. Other than that my PC's run 24/7.


Ditto
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Post November 3rd, 2008, 12:53 pm

grinch2171 wrote:
The only time I reboot is when I am forced to by either software installs or updates. Other than that my PC's run 24/7.

Same.
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Post November 3rd, 2008, 2:34 pm

I leave all of my PCs running 24/7 too. On my XP box, Firefox seems to slow the machine when I have a lot of tabs opened. That forces me to reboot.

I have a Lenovo laptop that runs FreeBSD 7.0
I rebooted it 4 times in the last year.
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Post November 3rd, 2008, 3:01 pm

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I leave all of my PCs running 24/7 too. On my XP box, Firefox seems to slow the machine when I have a lot of tabs opened. That forces me to reboot.


I have that happen on a regular basis. Seems to all of a sudden want to hog the CPU. Closing FF, waiting one minute for the CPU to return to normal and re-opening has always sufficed. never actually had to reboot because of FF.
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Post November 3rd, 2008, 4:25 pm

How many tabs do you have opened when that happens? I have about 15.
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Post November 4th, 2008, 4:13 am

I used to keep my PC running 24x7 but I don't do it any more for environmental reasons. I just keep the servers running.
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Post November 4th, 2008, 6:33 am

Are servers more environmentally safe than workstations?
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Post November 4th, 2008, 6:47 am

No, but they typically perform functions such as email and Websites and need to be running. At least that's the way it would be here for me. Interesting idea though. Might do a little research into seeing how much it would reduce our carbon footprint at work to shut down all workstations each night and weekends. That is an objective of the company.
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Post November 4th, 2008, 7:23 am

The main reason I keep workstation on over night is that is when I push out updates. Plus I have several workstations that are manned 24/7 due to the nature of my business. Security of the Capitol Complex is paramount.

Post November 6th, 2008, 6:33 am

grinch2171 wrote:
The only time I reboot is when I am forced to by either software installs or updates. Other than that my PC's run 24/7.


Same.

Usually the longer firefox is open, the larger it's memory usage. There was some program I heard of that reduces it, but it's not worth it. If it ever screws up and takes 50% CPU or the memory gets too high, I just end process and reopen it again. Saves everything in session so...
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Post November 7th, 2008, 10:46 am

I don't remember the last time I rebooted ;)
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