OK having had my windows 7 laptop a week now, I'm kinda getting used to it.. even quite like it :eek4: My question is should I fully shut down my laptop at night?
Now with my Macbook, I rarely shut down, but have heard conflicting things about windows 7. So what do you all do? Thanks :)
I always shut down at night.
Thanks Simon think I will too .. just forget after using a Mac. I'm usinf Firefox, can you recomend any good addon's please? Got Adblock plus and foxclocks so far
Sorry, I don't use Firefox, Tina, but my own personal preference is for as few addons as possible, as the more you have, the more chance there is of conflicts, bloating, etc...
Quote from: Tina on Aug 04, 2011, 22:47:31
OK having had my windows 7 laptop a week now, I'm kinda getting used to it.. even quite like it :eek4: My question is should I fully shut down my laptop at night?
Now with my Macbook, I rarely shut down, but have heard conflicting things about windows 7. So what do you all do? Thanks :)
Windows is not as efficient as Linux/Unix in freeing up 'unused' memory. You can keep an eye on the swap file/memory usage if you want but I do find you can keep Windows 7 going for a few days without rebooting
I use to use hibernate a lot. You can use this is you wish. It puts the PC in a complete off mode, so saves on power too.
I always use Sleep/Hibernate on my PC and Laptop, works well and rarely get any problem with it.
I find this is not so much a problem with memory leakage.
After all, I've had Windows 2000 systems run for hundreds of days quite happily, but what I do find with Windows 7 is that after a few dozen cycles of sleep/resume, some device will not properly 'wake up' again. This is strictly a problem with the driver (or the hardware) rather than Windows itself it seems, and can be a niggle or a complete failure (such as the graphics card not re-initialising properly). Generally I would not be afraid to use sleep when you walk away from a computer, and hibernate mode overnight. I tend to shutdown a lot because it starts up reasonably fast these days.
The only time I ever shutdown is when there are updates to install or I'm aware for more than a few days. My laptop quite happily goes the month with just sleep.
I kind of agree esh. I don't know the specifics, but the errors do seem to be more down to the hardware than the software. Either motherboards or usb devices fail to support the power options correctly. :(