What is your highest Vista/XP uptime?

I'm curious as to how long Vista can last before going down; I take it as a sign of the overall stability of the system. Although the move to x64 architecture has made my computer a bit more reliable, my longest uptime with Vista is still 72 hours or so. What is your longest uptime?

 

It was around 120hrs with the system hibernating overnight and whenever I had to travel with it. It would have definitely lasted longer had it not been for program update forcing the shutdown. I dont think up times are an issue these days given the drivers and software play nice. Ofcourese, if it was a true DTR or a desktop leaving it on 24/7 should quite possibly last for a loner time than a notebook.

 

I have left mine on for 2 weeks before... then I did updates etc. so it restarted then.

 

Same..........

 

I always turn it off at night, so I don't pass, I guess 16h?

 

It was a month until I put a new hard drive in. It's been up 12 days since. My best Windows uptime was 128 days on my M1210 with XP MCE. Eventually I gave in to the software updates and had to reboot.

The absolute best though was a RHE3 server that I had up for 14 months. I used to have a screen shot of it.

 

I always though frequency of uptime and quality during that uptime was a better measure

 

longest ever for me win XP 2 weeks. vista only 24 hours

 

I leave my computer on for months...only time it restarts is the monthly updates from Microsoft.

 

About 144hrs, only when I'm torrenting slowly though, otherwise i shut it down when I'm done at night.

 

I usually only hibernate.

My XP can run for weeks without problems. The only restarts are after updates.

 

vista about 2 weeks with a voluntary restart - on laptop this is.

xp - about 4 months with voluntary restart - on desktop

98SE - about 6 months with a crash after dust caused the cpu fan to stop

 

my desktop has been on for about 1 month now without any restarts, i just use it for downloading stuff so it's constantly on

 

I don't know the longest I've kept my laptop (Vista) on... probably 3 or so days before shut down/restart. However, I haven't noticed any problems of Vista becoming unstable because I've kept it on for a long time.

 

Hi...

I generally shut my machine down when I am done with work/ play, which can be as long as 18-20 hrs.

But I never really thought of this - can keeping a machine on for so long degrade its performance? Should a machine be shut down - optimally? If yes, why? I am particularly interested in how this relates to laptops.

Thanks

 

Hmmm. After 65 hours or so my wireless connection always drops and never recovers again. No networks are ever detected until I restart the computer. :/

 

Almost a month. My laptop was on everyday for a month during my second semester of college. I had a few 3D CAD projects and I needed to render several images. I would check my emails, start a rendering and go to class, come back from class and finish up homework, and then start another rendering before I went to bed. My system had no time to be turned off. By the way, I hate SolidEdge. It's not multithreaded so using quad-core workstation computers on campus was a waste. My laptop's 8600m gt did a better job than the workstation cards my campus had.

 

i try to keep XP up as long as possible,,,

and once had a home-built celeron 300A on an ABIT BH6, over clocked to 450,, ran stable with a RC version of WIN98..... stayed up over 6 months before had to swap to a faster CPU

 

wow i thought i was the only one here who left their pc on for soo long but its good to know im not alone. anywayz mine is 5 days but its constantly on for long period of time but i usually restart my pc & router and let it cool down. its because of this i have to get a new battery.. keep telling me my battery need calibrating but everytime i do nothing changes soo i really need a new battery.

 

2-4 week I don't know exactly.

 

I reinstalled my XP system exactly year ago (2007-05-21) in effort trying to speed this computer little bit. Since then I have experienced 4 bluescreens.

Those BSODs were caused by following files:
2007-06-18) usbhub.sys
2007-09-03) ser2pl.sys
2008-01-21) hardlock.sys
2008-02-08) hardlock.sys

So really I have had 3 different reasons to crash. The hardlock driver is also disabled now so that probably doesn't give any crashes anymore. I wonder who installed it, because I haven't noticed any malfunctioning programs since I disabled the driver. It is a copy protection driver or something like that, knows Google.

In any case, I think I did keep this running most of the time at my last summer vacation 2007. Summer vacations are 4 weeks long here. I didn't use it much though since I had other things to do. So what does that prove? Like a normal workstation would crash on its own without reason. On my normal use I have a habit to turn it on/off twice a day. Once when I go to work and second time at home.

 

According to Microsoft restarting atleast once a week might keep your computer healthy.

 

My NX9420 has been up for over 600 h(about 1 month) in the longest time.(Xp)
Now it`s over 400(sager),but I`ve been hibernating in between,whereas the 600h were continuos.

 

Interesting, I've never read that. I could coincide with keeping your updates up to date.

 

Counting sleeping and hibernation, over a month.

 

I've had a system run for 3 months. I used standby the whole time.

 

Cheater!

 

Wait,are you talking about uptime as in NOT shutting down or standing by or you can count H and SB ?

 

I count uptime as the period from boot to reboot. If you look at your system uptime in any OS, it continues through sleep and hibernation.

 

About H, I knew that, but since I don`t use sleep, I wouldn`t know.
In XP I had amazingly long uptimes...
In Vista I guess I was close to 500h , since I hate shutdown and once in a while, updates required a restart

 

I've ran about 125-150 days, back when I use to use mIRC all the time. Had to have something to brag about ;>.

 

If you bring up taskmanager, under the performance tab, you'll see your uptime.
Fileserver is at 1300~

 

I've had mine on constantly since I bought it, only restart it occasionally to install a new distro of linux or update windows.

 

On my main desktop running Vista Ultimate I'll run 24/7 for weeks without a reboot. The only time I reboot is when I download windows updates that require it, or some other software install that needs a reboot. I can't remember the last time I had to reboot due to an actual crash of some kind. And even then it was probably iTunes related.

I have a pc running Windows 2003 Server that I use as a file server, and it shows the last reboot on 12/25/2007 at 3:50 PM. Not sure why I'd have rebooted a server on Christmas though. Probably iTunes related.

 

Not in my XP.

 

yeah, xp you gotta do the whole systeminfo and scroll up.

Or you could pipe it by typing

systeminfo | find "Up Time"

Ahh, that brings up nostalgic thoughts of good ol DOS.

 

Microsoft made an uptime tool like the one you will find in *nix systems that works for XP and Vista. Even x64 because I justed tested it.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q232243/

Just add it to Windows/System 32 then you can run the command uptime in command prompt.

 

Weeks, months? IDK

I never turn my system off

 

Yea, that`s the long version to do it.
Mainly, I use NHC since it shows it by default.

 

Sorry to bring this thread back...

But VISTA on my laptop has been running for 640 Hours now! WOOH! ~27 days!!!


But the thing that makes this stand appart is that I use my laptop daily for a couple hours doing everything from gaming to installing programs to sorting out pictures!



My msn has been acting weird and not sending messages to some people, in opera when I try to look at a picture on google images it comes up in code half the time, when I login the harddrive spins fast for a couple minutes and my ram usage seems to go crazy dropping from 2.6GB to 800MB and then back up to 2.99GB and then hoovering around 2.1GB hahaha

 

Same here, always turn it off at night...

 

i'd say around 144 hrs, or maybe a little more, i could have kept it going but i uninstalled some stuff that required a restart. the most i'll usually leave it on is 3-4 days at a time, but sometimes more than that.

 

I sadly announce my laptop freezing in the middle of the night with a black screen with a 640X480 res. mouse that was pretty much close to useless... and after hitting a couple keys BLUE SCREEN OF DEAAATH!!! BSOD SUCKS


So my record lays in between 680-720 hours / 29-30 days

 

probably a month or so

 

Probably about 24-36 hours while downloading a big torrent. Usually I shut all my systems off before I go to bed, so they aren't on for very long typically.

 

I am currently at 17 days 10 hrs 37 mins. This is hibernating at night.
As for longest, I don't know, it depends when new Windows updates want me to reboot, (almost) never crashes or BSODs.
this is on Vista.