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Originally Posted by JakeRich
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Actually, soft resetting a couple of times a day would be a good practice to start using. As I said, it recovers memory lost to memory leaks, it defragments the memory and generally improves performance by tidying up the memory allocation. As I said, it's good housekeeping.
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Coming from Linux world I understand that Bill Gates's marketing arm did brainwashing well. I am not a devoted Linux catholic and use Win more often than Lin but out of ten servers under my jurisdiction the longest up and running is up for 380 days now, without a single reboot. Lots of beta software went there, used for heavy testing- never needed a restart unless a new kernel came out.
So stability is achievable but must be made a goal of a company that develops the software- which M$ definitely does not have in their periscope. They need to sell. And soft reset is something that users put up with especially when it takes only 20 secs...
But hey- maybe Dell will come up with some pre-Xmas patch surprise?