Can A Windows Xp Run Continuously For A Month Or More ?

[devauniversal]

Hi guyz

I just wanna know did any one try to run windows xp continuously for a month or more than that without getting it restarted. Just a curiosity to know, whether any one tried it already. I am running it for the 11th day continuously ..

[Sukhdeep Singh]

Yes ofcourse.

[gxsaurav]

Don't know about XP, but I am running Vista from 20 days continuesly. I just put it on hibernate when I go to sleep in night.

[tanvi chaturvedi]

will try in hostl...sure!!

[munchy]

well dude,
my windows xp has been runnin ever since i have joined my company,
5th march 2007,
ever since dat day i havent restarted it,
no crashes , nothng,
whn i leave ofc i just lock the user and turn off d monitor and next day do d reverse,
it's been runnin g perfectly fine inspite f d fact that i use very heavy applications on it like visual studio 2005 and the server of my website is at a remote location so am alwz logged onto it,
outlook alwz running,
media player on,
surfn d net usin firefox and IE and opera,
so it just performs very nicely,

[Sukhdeep Singh]

Originally Posted by gx_saurav

Don't know about XP, but I am running Vista from 20 days continuesly. I just put it on hibernate when I go to sleep in night.

If you consider hiberante then i that case, i use shutdown like once in a month. I always ut my pc on hibernate

[satyamy]

Yes
It can run continously

[Choto Cheeta]

Edit : I got the question wrong !!! Sorry...


I Run 2 and a half years non stop... till i updated to new C2D system !!!! So windows XP run for 30months non stop for me... !!! and dont say i dont test or visit Virus effected sites, I do...

[ratedrsuperstar]

move the thread mods to the chitchat section

this section is becoming "post what did you find" section.we need tech news,no discoveries.

btw my xp's been running for 15mnths now.

[infra_red_dude]

unless you install something that requires a system restarts or change a hardware, xp can very well run for long widout a reboot.

[devauniversal]

Originally Posted by munchy

well dude,
my windows xp has been runnin ever since i have joined my company,
5th march 2007,
ever since dat day i havent restarted it,
no crashes , nothng,
whn i leave ofc i just lock the user and turn off d monitor and next day do d reverse,
it's been runnin g perfectly fine inspite f d fact that i use very heavy applications on it like visual studio 2005 and the server of my website is at a remote location so am alwz logged onto it,
outlook alwz running,
media player on,
surfn d net usin firefox and IE and opera,
so it just performs very nicely,

thats quite impressing munchy... thanks alot guyz for your replies

[ilugd]

as infrared says, that is the only reason my system ever powers down. Counting the fact that an ftp server, etrust virus update server and a plone server run on my system I always keep it on. Has been this way since Jan 2006. I might have restarted a total of 30 times since then.

[praka123]

does always "on" helps reducing fragmentation or does it mean the other way?

[ilugd]

neither, I guess. It depends on your use as usual. You delete and add a lot of files, fragmentation will occur. It doesn't make a lot of difference either way.

[devauniversal]

Originally Posted by praka123

does always "on" helps reducing fragmentation or does it mean the other way?

fragmentation occurs when swapping, creating or deleting files occurs more frequenltly. Os will look for the best possible allocation of files when it doesnt find enough space to create it in successive sectors it splits the file and places it in diffrent places of hard disk which results in fragmentation.

[zyberboy]

Originally Posted by Choto Cheeta

I Run 2 and a half years non stop... till i updated to new C2D system !!!! So windows XP run for 30months non stop for me... !!! and dont say i dont test or visit Virus effected sites, I do...

In ur home pc? why?

[shantanu]

my XP restarts once in 20 mins...

[fun2sh]

UTTER WASTAGE of ENERGY. why dont u ever shutdown the comp? just because it would take extra 10mins next time while startin?
this is REALLY BAD. SAVE ENERGY GUYS

[Choto Cheeta]

Originally Posted by cyberboy_kerala

In ur home pc? why?

did not get ur question.. !!!

[zyberboy]

^^reason not to shutdown for 2 yrs.Anything important running?

[Choto Cheeta]

^^^^

my misstake... !!!

i read the question wrong !!!

i thought how much time without format...

thnx for pointing out....

[ilugd]

Please... I spend 1/2 hour each night at 8 pm walking through all the floors in the office turning off monitors and speakers that have been left on inadvertently by the users and get down on the floor behind desks over 10 times switching off printers. But some people do have to login during emergencies to share files among themselves (a user may leave a file on the server during the day for another user to get it at night) and that is why my system and the call accounting system remain on.
So I do care about energy. I post a tip of the month to save energy every month on my noticeboard for everyone to read and I too follow that guideline. At 9 pm, I personally walk through all the five floors in our building switching off fans and airconditioning blowers. It is not my responsibility but I do it because I stay in the dorm and I consider the building as my own.
I keep my computer on because it needs to be. My personal system is turned on only when I need it. I hope that resolves your concern, @fun2sh?
Anyway, nice to know that people here do talk about energy. Since we have people like this, I don't believe people who say India has no hope and the citizens are characterless.
Cheers to you fun2sh!!!

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whoa!! just noticed, mine is the longest running system. (Unless you count those mandatory restarts. I restarted a few days ago to get rid of a malware by using a software that deletes a locked file on the next boot.)