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Thread ID: 108986 2010-04-19 09:23:00 How many times a day do you reboot your computer? Ice Road Trucker (15659) PC World Chat
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878069 2010-04-21 10:56:00 I reboot when an update or something wants to reboot. Other than that, I just let it go to sleep.

I know shutting it down uses less power, but sleep mode uses hardly any power anyway & resuming from sleep is much faster than a cold boot.
Greven (91)
878070 2010-04-21 11:00:00 Pretty good for Vista!!

My father's machine on Vista - crashes every couple of days. Trying to convince him to go to Win7...

If you do an upgrade instead of a clean install, it will probably be no more stable.
Greven (91)
878071 2010-04-21 22:52:00 My bog standard XP server has been on for about 100 days, still running without problem... utopian201 (6245)
878072 2010-04-21 23:10:00 My bog standard XP server has been on for about 100 days, still running without problem...

I wonder how long you could manage that with Windows ME? Probably about 40 seconds...
Agent_24 (57)
878073 2010-04-21 23:14:00 I never had any trouble with ME




I never had it...lol went from 98 to XP :)
Gobe1 (6290)
878074 2010-04-21 23:19:00 I never had any trouble with ME




I never had it...lol went from 98 to XP :)

Worst I've ever used. Had nothing but problems with ME
Ice Road Trucker (15659)
878075 2010-04-21 23:21:00 Yeah i avoided it cause all my friends upgraded and hated it Gobe1 (6290)
878076 2010-04-21 23:36:00 I've installed Windows ME on only two computers.

First one it would have random problems, crashed a few times but after installing all updates from Windows update it ran fine.

Second time, It was crashing so much I couldn't get the updates installed. It corrupted its own registry or something, couldn't recover it (because it crashed while trying to do that too) and then refused to install the updates because it thought there weren't any.

Symptoms you would think were classic signs of hardware failure, but no. Went back to Windows 98SE, stable as a rock.


I always thought people were joking about how bad it was, but only had to try it twice and I was amazed really at how bad it was.

It's like Microsoft shipped an alpha version or something...
Agent_24 (57)
878077 2010-04-21 23:49:00 A bit like Vista pre SP1, bloody hopeless.
Microsoft got a WOW there all right.
KarameaDave (15222)
878078 2010-04-22 07:25:00 I leave mine on most of the time. It usually gets rebooted every few days just for a clean start (CREATIVE - I'm looking at you!!) but other than that... Sherman (9181)
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