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I’m blown away by this. I’ve come back to a full MS stack after years away and it’s grim. Machine shave to be restarted once or more times per day. My personal

I’m blown away by this. I’ve come back to a full MS stack after years away and it’s grim. Machine shave to be restarted once or more times per day. My personal MacBook is restarted every month or two. I used to moan about Apple’s software quality, but maybe we are actually in Isaac Asimov’s accelerating decline to a dark age.

j_mo 4y ago
Not to support Windows, but what are you doing that requires restarts multiple times per day? I leave my personal Windows 10 desktop running for about a month at a time so I don't have to reopen 5 different windows and arrange them across three screens for uni work every evening. It works fine. Mind you, if it was a Mac I'd not even have to reopen or arrange them after restarting the machine - they'd still be there. Although my work Mac loves to randomise which display gets which windows and desktop background... And randomly pan all bluetooth audio to the left ear once a week. I guess all OS's have their issues.
- denton-scratch 4y ago
  > I leave my personal Windows 10 desktop running for about a month at a time My Win10 Home desktop downloads updates when I'm not looking - and sometimes when I'm actually using the thing - and then reboots all on its own. I have no control over this; there have been occasions when the reboot has happened while I was working. It happens roughly once a week.
  - InvaderFizz 4y ago
    I've been using this method for years and it works great. It uses a windows debug feature to launch cmd instead of the reboot scheduler. You never see the cmd window, as it's launched by SYSTEM. This prevents Windows update from scheduling a reboot, otherwise the system function as normal. You do need to reboot periodically, but now it's on your schedule. Source: https://lazyadmin.nl/it/how-to-stop-automatic-restart-win-10-after-installing-updates/#comments https://lazyadmin.nl/it/how-to-stop-automatic-restart-win-10...
  - layer8 4y ago
    You can use Reboot-Blocker to prevent that: https://udse.de/reboot-blocker/ https://udse.de/reboot-blocker/
- lostlogin 4y ago
  > what are you doing that requires restarts multiple times per day? Outlook, Teams, Chrome, COMRAD (radiology RIS), Spotify and InteleViewer (DICOM viewer). Without restarts Spotify stops working, the software loses track of what day it is (it assumes the day prior) and things get slow or unresponsive. Maybe it’s the software and not the OS. I run all those except COMRAD on a Mac ok though. Mac and multi display and window location is a special hell. My father is a heavy Photohop user and palette organisation is a daily battle with multi screen. When screens wake up windows and palettes reorganise if the system detects one screen and not two briefly. It’s a big drain on productivity.
  - kjs3 4y ago
    "My applications, not written by Microsoft, are broken. Obviously, it's Windows fault".
  - trinsic2 4y ago
    Yea I dont support Microsoft either but I do have to run it on multipule machines for work and I don't need to restart unless to switch into Linux. It sounds like one of your apps has a memory leak or something. Do you check task manager for resource hogging?
    - lostlogin 4y ago
      > Do you check task manager for resource hogging? Awkward… no, I haven’t dug into it at all. I now will.
literalAardvark 4y ago
I only restart on patch Tuesdays, you have a different problem than Windows.
kjs3 4y ago
We have 80k Windows users we have to force to reboot every couple of weeks to make sure updates to all the software take (yeah...that's a problem but a different problem). If you're rebooting once a day, you have problems other than Microsoft.

j_mo 4y ago

Not to support Windows, but what are you doing that requires restarts multiple times per day? I leave my personal Windows 10 desktop running for about a month at a time so I don't have to reopen 5 different windows and arrange them across three screens for uni work every evening. It works fine. Mind you, if it was a Mac I'd not even have to reopen or arrange them after restarting the machine - they'd still be there. Although my work Mac loves to randomise which display gets which windows and desktop background... And randomly pan all bluetooth audio to the left ear once a week. I guess all OS's have their issues.

denton-scratch 4y ago
> I leave my personal Windows 10 desktop running for about a month at a time My Win10 Home desktop downloads updates when I'm not looking - and sometimes when I'm actually using the thing - and then reboots all on its own. I have no control over this; there have been occasions when the reboot has happened while I was working. It happens roughly once a week.
- InvaderFizz 4y ago
  I've been using this method for years and it works great. It uses a windows debug feature to launch cmd instead of the reboot scheduler. You never see the cmd window, as it's launched by SYSTEM. This prevents Windows update from scheduling a reboot, otherwise the system function as normal. You do need to reboot periodically, but now it's on your schedule. Source: https://lazyadmin.nl/it/how-to-stop-automatic-restart-win-10-after-installing-updates/#comments https://lazyadmin.nl/it/how-to-stop-automatic-restart-win-10...
- layer8 4y ago
  You can use Reboot-Blocker to prevent that: https://udse.de/reboot-blocker/ https://udse.de/reboot-blocker/
lostlogin 4y ago
> what are you doing that requires restarts multiple times per day? Outlook, Teams, Chrome, COMRAD (radiology RIS), Spotify and InteleViewer (DICOM viewer). Without restarts Spotify stops working, the software loses track of what day it is (it assumes the day prior) and things get slow or unresponsive. Maybe it’s the software and not the OS. I run all those except COMRAD on a Mac ok though. Mac and multi display and window location is a special hell. My father is a heavy Photohop user and palette organisation is a daily battle with multi screen. When screens wake up windows and palettes reorganise if the system detects one screen and not two briefly. It’s a big drain on productivity.
- kjs3 4y ago
  "My applications, not written by Microsoft, are broken. Obviously, it's Windows fault".
- trinsic2 4y ago
  Yea I dont support Microsoft either but I do have to run it on multipule machines for work and I don't need to restart unless to switch into Linux. It sounds like one of your apps has a memory leak or something. Do you check task manager for resource hogging?
  - lostlogin 4y ago
    > Do you check task manager for resource hogging? Awkward… no, I haven’t dug into it at all. I now will.

literalAardvark 4y ago

I only restart on patch Tuesdays, you have a different problem than Windows.

kjs3 4y ago

We have 80k Windows users we have to force to reboot every couple of weeks to make sure updates to all the software take (yeah...that's a problem but a different problem). If you're rebooting once a day, you have problems other than Microsoft.