Vista - When is rebooting absolutely necessary ?

A very simple question: When is a reboot absolutely necessary ? I hate
rebooting, and it seems that logging off and logging back on my user account
seems to do what I need.

I guess an associated question is, what is the difference between just
logging off and logging back on, and a full reboot ? TIA for your time, truly.

Steve

You can go as long as you want.... however I reboot at least once a day....
and more often if I have any programs that I suspect have memory issues.

"steve h." <ugandasteve2470@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Steve,

For me, rebooting only occurs when necessary to complete an installation of
software or an update. Otherwise I run all systems 24/7 using
sleep/hibernate modes as appropriate.

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Best of Luck,

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"steve h." <ugandasteve2470@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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when your PC program resources are eaten up. your programs seems to be
sluggish, that's the time to reboot and regain lost resources and or memory.
loging in and out is just a user access level of entering and exiting
accounts but does nothing on resources.




"steve h." <ugandasteve2470@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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most of the programs will tell you to reboot after installation. some don't.
I always reboot.
also, if you don't do anything on the computer and you're at home, do a
Defrag.
after a new installation, files are all over the "place" on the drive. a
defrag put's everything
into the right places and speeds it up some.
it is also good to make a restore point before a new program installation.
if the program should not
work correctly, like with a lot of games, downloaded from the net, then it
is easy to uninstall the program again
and go back to the previous "picture". also check Program Files if anything
is left from that program and delete it.
of course, there are other things, one should do after uninstall, to really
clean everything, but that's another story.


"AJ Babao" <ajbabao@xxxxxx-manila.com.ph> wrote in message
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