seriously? the first time I have ever heard that theory. spinning up causes more wear imo

modern HDD specs are meant to be 100,000 hours, which if powered on 24/7 (which they often aren't) gives...

If I need to get into the habit of rebooting every 2 weeks, I can probably get into the habit of rebooting every 2 weeks. It doesn't seem to be a step forward in operating-system'ness (W7 let me...

Denis - Because I disabled modern standby when I learnt what it did (ie, the computer still has network connectivity when put into modern standby, and can still download updates which isn't really...

I'm not here to argue that :- ) but I would say there are other things that can go wrong as well as power components. But yes power components are "higher risk". as Bill Gates probably said "you can...

clean out the dust build up from the cpu heatsink occasionally if you can - this is the only hardware maintenance I've had to do on mine. it turned 45 degrees c into 65 degrees c, purely from...

ok I think I've filled out the specs..

ok. drivers
I let Win 10 run it's own driver update process, and also use a program called Driver Easy which I've found to be decent enough in the past....

(hello, first time poster, long-time computer user)

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I've had a windows 7 laptop for the past 10 years (Fujitsu Lifebook since 2012) - basically no issues. productive/did (does)...