Comments on: How long’s it been since you last rebooted Windows?

By: Wendig0

Wendig0 — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 06:27:05 +0000

Maxx, either you have the most dependable power grid in the world, or I’m calling BS. 14 years is a little too much to believe.

I used to keep my system on for months at a time without rebooting, though now I shutdown every night. Since I started doing nightly shutdowns, my electricity bill has dropped about $65/month.

My current uptime is 16hrs, 23 minutes, 15 seconds

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:59:24 +0000

systeminfo didn’t work on either of my xp machines
-Not regognized as aninternal or external command-

By: MiDi

MiDi — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:59:38 +0000

I threw windows 2000 on my old dell from ’99 awhile back (P3 866 Mhz, 386 MB Ram) Almost hit a year, while staying quite active as a server.

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/2352/muaha.jpg

I’m quite proud of the old gal :) especially seeing how its all stock, and its been quite a warm summer, with only the CPU & PSU fans running.

By: maxx

maxx — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:37:31 +0000

My 386 has been up for about 14 years and never required a shutdown. beat THAT!

By: Klocman

Klocman — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:02:43 +0000

About 12 days on my home server. (I had to restart it to add some hardware and finish updates. Before restart it was at 169 days, running recycled Win XP PRO)
On my workstation/gaming machine I rarely get more than 12 hours.

By: Rahul

Rahul — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:04:40 +0000

Yes , gaurav is right.
for efficient working of a sever it must get a reboot once in every 6 months.

By: Gaurav Agarwal

Gaurav Agarwal — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:40:55 +0000

Gateway 960, Dual Xeon 2.4 Ghz, 1.5GB RAM running (gasp!!) Windows Server 2003…uptime reads..

315 days 13 hours 14 minutes 1 second as of 05/08/09.
this is the maximum what i have achieved till now in my experience of 8 years.
But my experience told me for efficient working of a sever it must get a restart once in every 6 months(180 days)

By: Asif Murtazah

Asif Murtazah — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:25:47 +0000

what the approximate uptime to restart a wondows server?

By: Mikuro

Mikuro — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:07:55 +0000

15:07:43 here, Custom built, Ubuntu Karmic based [AMD64].

I don’t see how uptime values can be seen as stability counters. Something like that is entirely up to the usage of the machine.

Also, for the eco-trolls, for your statements to be valid, you must compare also with our usage/load statistics, which most here are not disclosing. If we use the machines only 30% of the time, then so be it, but if we use it as a server or similar, then turning it off can be counter-productive.

btw, mine are “0.00, 0.00, 0.00″, it’s been a boring 15 hours :/

By: remote access software

remote access software — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:00:49 +0000

Oh wow! I feel bad now. Mine has been up for over 3 weeks. All the environmental energy savers are going to be mad at this article. I guess I am not as bad as bathy above me though. 1 year! That is absurd.