Longest W7 continuous uptime

Tews said:

Before installing W7 my Linux OS was up almost a year... 8.04

If do that my parents will kill me..............

My longest uptime was only 3 days....

septprince said:

If do that my parents will kill me..............

My longest uptime was only 3 days....

I am surprised they would...computers are very enerygy efficient now (if you have a computer that is relatively new)...hell your TV more than likey takes up more power as along as it runs

4 days have been my longest run. had to turn it off because the PSU blew up and took my HDD and a memory module to its grave. it wasn't the long run, of course, but a crappy PSU. it happened like 30 days ago.

Zidane24 said:

I am surprised they would...computers are very enerygy efficient now (if you have a computer that is relatively new)...hell your TV more than likey takes up more power as along as it runs

My PSU, motherboard , processor and HDD is 5 years old........
but still it can handle Windows 7 well............
Apart from that every other components are new like display and all.....

How do you gentlemen not have to restart computers for certain drivers etc to be put into effect? I know updates for some of my programs let alone W7 updates alone have said "Must Restart computer for these changes to take effect"

Static said:

How do you gentlemen not have to restart computers for certain drivers etc to be put into effect? I know updates for some of my programs let alone W7 updates alone have said "Must Restart computer for these changes to take effect"

Tews was using windows 7 in VM on linux...So if he restarts windows still his linux should be running...
And most of all MS dont release update for windows 7 everyday...

Static said:

How do you gentlemen not have to restart computers for certain drivers etc to be put into effect? I know updates for some of my programs let alone W7 updates alone have said "Must Restart computer for these changes to take effect"

I don't care about most drivers on the machine. It's headless, so I definitely don't go checking for video drivers left and right :P

Disable Auto Update Restart:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]
"NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers"=dword:00000001

Well for me personally, I never shut off my PC. I can't remember the last time I did. Must've been years. But I haven't kept a Win7 install running on a continuous basis since last October. I'm pretty much reformatting and reinstalling every 7-14 days it seems like. I did just complete a clean install today. We'll see how long this lasts since I don't see any other leaks on the horizon.