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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

In ur home pc? why?

did not get ur question.. !!!

 

[zyberboy]

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