Windows is too stable these days

yashiro · 11 Jan 2012 at 17:06

Adobe Reader! :O

mrk · 11 Jan 2012 at 17:51

You can ignore restart requests from such software, they seem to function perfectly fine without one. The only reason I can imagine is that the installer sees that it's updated and wants to load the Adobe speedup service(s) at startup again....which there's no need.

I disable that guff anyway in MSconfig as there's no need to speed something up on an SSD.

SoundsGood · 11 Jan 2012 at 23:44

Dimension said:
I have been on a customers site who had an NT4 server with over 1300 days uptime. By this point they were all too scared to reboot it as nobody knew how to re-install and configure the application it was hosting.

Haha I know that feeling..

In my last job we had several switches with over 3 years up time. Not really comparable to Windows but still pretty good figures

weyland yutani · 12 Jan 2012 at 13:57

A couple of related questions?

My cousin once told me that starting up and shuting down a pc every day is bad for the system, not true surely?

Also, sometimes when I wake the pc after its been in sleep mode overnight a "system interupt" process uses up about 10% of my cpu unless I restart. What exactly is this?

mrk · 12 Jan 2012 at 14:02

weyland yutani said:
A couple of related questions?

My cousin once told me that starting up and shuting down a pc every day is bad for the system, not true surely?

Also, sometimes when I wake the pc after its been in sleep mode overnight a "system interupt" process uses up about 10% of my cpu unless I restart. What exactly is this?

Don’t know about the last one but yes, if you have mechanical drives in your PC then it’s physics. Spinning metal will expand/contract as it powers up and down. That and starting up/shutting down a computer bears most of the grunt on the PSU as well.

Keeping a HDD running is better for its health than daily shutdowns and bootups.

Obviously doesn’t apply to an SSD only system in the same sense.

tntcoder · 12 Jan 2012 at 18:15

mrk said:
Don’t know about the last one but yes, if you have mechanical drives in your PC then it’s physics. Spinning metal will expand/contract as it powers up and down. That and starting up/shutting down a computer bears most of the grunt on the PSU as well.

Keeping a HDD running is better for its health than daily shutdowns and bootups.

Obviously doesn’t apply to an SSD only system in the same sense.

I'd argue that those effects are completely negligible and in reality you would never notice any issues in the average lifetime of a box.

Mattus · 12 Jan 2012 at 18:18

tntcoder said:
I'd argue that those effects are completely negligible and in reality you would never notice any issues in the average lifetime of a box.

I'd agree. It's certainly not a reason to leave your PC on 24/7 if you weren't otherwise going to, especially as leaving a computer on all the time can add quite a bit to your electric bill.

mrk · 12 Jan 2012 at 18:33

That's completely down to your computer compoenents and how they're configured. Mine is never turned off and it doesn't make an impact on my bills, well not enough to raise a small fart anyway.

People will debate it all day long but it's pretty simple, If you're heating up and cooling down spinning metal a few times a day for a couple of years you are degrading the drive's lifespan.

By how much though is anyone's guess. Moving parts can fail at different times even if 2 drives have the exact same PC connected to them so undergo the same daily stresses.