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How often do people reboot?
(hello, first time poster, long-time computer user)
Brief history
I've had a windows 7 laptop for the past 10 years (Fujitsu Lifebook since 2012) - basically no issues. productive/did (does) the job. I thought it was worth buying a new one because electronics wears out. (and the fan is noisy)
I bought a new Lenovo 11th gen i5 about 6 weeks ago, UEFI prevents Windows 7 being installed - I guess the powers that be don't want people doing that. (unfortunately - we have 4 computers running windows 7 here with no issues)
I installed Windows 10 on it (imo Windows 11 is....horrible, I could probably give reasons), and have been having no end of problems (system stability, user interface, basically anything). I could post a long rant with screenshots, but anyway.
Somewhere to start. Several applications (incl chrome, torrent s/w, ms paint) have been giving me out of memory errors every few minutes for the last couple of days (18 days uptime, errors started about 2 days ago). The question is - how often do people restart their systems? Windows 7 reliably constantly gives me several weeks of uptime (1-2 months without problems), so I'm used to a few weeks between reboots (I've run the memory diagnostic tool - all clear - it's a new laptop)
Let me know if there's any info not in my profile that should be there..
many thx.
Last edited by quartz1; 3 Weeks Ago at 14:31.