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« Reply #15 on: December 27, 2012, 06:59:48 PM »

What's wrong with just rebooting every few days? I thought this was pretty standard?  There is a tech forum called seven forum which I've used before. I think the posters can be trusted and give good quick advice

Most Windows computers need to be rebooted on a daily basis. 

I was going to say - in what way 'needed'?

Our work computers tend to get rebooted when a windows update forces them too - that might be quite regular but it's a long way from daily.
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« Reply #16 on: December 27, 2012, 08:09:44 PM »

Can you show us what you're using?

Press ctrl + ALT + delete and select task manager.

Click the 'processes' tab

Click 'Memory' tab to list the processes in order of most memory use.

Take a screen shot and post it on here.




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« Reply #17 on: December 27, 2012, 08:11:59 PM »

Can you show us what you're using?

Press ctrl + ALT + delete and select task manager.

Click the 'processes' tab

Click 'Memory' tab to list the processes in order of most memory use.

Take a screen shot and post it on here.






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« Reply #18 on: January 03, 2013, 08:01:24 AM »

What's wrong with just rebooting every few days? I thought this was pretty standard?  There is a tech forum called seven forum which I've used before. I think the posters can be trusted and give good quick advice

Most Windows computers need to be rebooted on a daily basis. 

I was going to say - in what way 'needed'?

Our work computers tend to get rebooted when a windows update forces them too - that might be quite regular but it's a long way from daily.


If you're using memory-intensive programs, such as Firefox, graphics packages, large files in Office, etc., then Windows is notoriously bad at freeing up the memory.

If you're not using too much memory, then you can get away without reboots, but otherwise you're going to improve the computer's performance appreciably by rebooting it after a long,memory-intensive session. 
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« Reply #19 on: January 03, 2013, 08:03:11 AM »

HEM may be the culprit.
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« Reply #20 on: January 03, 2013, 12:28:36 PM »

What's wrong with just rebooting every few days? I thought this was pretty standard?  There is a tech forum called seven forum which I've used before. I think the posters can be trusted and give good quick advice

Most Windows computers need to be rebooted on a daily basis. 

I was going to say - in what way 'needed'?

Our work computers tend to get rebooted when a windows update forces them too - that might be quite regular but it's a long way from daily.


If you're using memory-intensive programs, such as Firefox, graphics packages, large files in Office, etc., then Windows is notoriously bad at freeing up the memory.

If you're not using too much memory, then you can get away without reboots, but otherwise you're going to improve the computer's performance appreciably by rebooting it after a long,memory-intensive session. 

lol, Chrome instead of Firefox and the addition of HTML editors and that would basically describe my work usage.

The memory does get clogged up - but you'd have to be doing absolutely masses to 'need' a daily reboot. I'd have thought most people with averagely high usage of memory-intensive programs would be fine with a weekly reboot.
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« Reply #21 on: January 03, 2013, 12:38:33 PM »

Hope you don't get Chrome to save your passwords Wink
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« Reply #23 on: January 03, 2013, 12:53:36 PM »

it's all perfectly safe - I save my bookmarks with the user name and password appended so I don't forget them  Grin
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« Reply #24 on: January 07, 2013, 09:15:22 AM »

Hope you don't get Chrome to save your passwords Wink

Problem??

I use HEM, table ninja, YouTube, stars, dtd client, and a few other bits n bobs.

But its the 'post session' status of still using 5Gb of the 8 available that confuses me.  I have more than once, closed down everything and checked task manager to find only <1.5Gb of accountable programs.  However 4/5/6Gb are in use.

Its like I need a way to 'flush' the RAM....Huh?


because of the restarting, im toying with the idea of a tiny SSD just for boot up/ reboot.
Thoughts?
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