?uestion about a particular win xp tweak

[mol3000]

Someone at my old job told me about this tweak and i did it and it worked but i have since formated my computer and cant find it on the web. It had to do with you being able to leave your computer on more than 2 days without restarting it. The person told me it would be better if you had a gig or ram or over but there was a setting he had me go and turn off does anyone know what the setting is???


PS: is there any more speed tweeks beside the (gpedit.msc) one that works good for xp????

[Bjs]

You mean the os bug that requires system restart ... its not "2 days" .. its past 28 , or just past this ... dont recall the max .

Are you sure your not talking about "suspend to ram" ... before you wizz off through that ... read this first .

http://blog.jillesvangurp.com/2006/03/19/suspend-to-ram/

Its has to be setup in the system bios prior to os install , or it dosent work as expected ... but that link dose provide another link to a tool that supposedly willl help users out of trouble .

A gig of memory is good advice .

[Krispy Kritter]

I have a pc that I am using as a media server that only gets rebooted once or twice a month, and then usually only because of updates or whatever. XP doesn't have any issues with running several days/weeks.

[Bjs]

Xp dose , linux dose not .

If using xp system as a drone , firewall , file server , no frequent user input , less likely to pop up .
If using it seriously for video editing , and alike , you will need to restart , sooner , rather than later .

And for another gatcha from ms ... restore points by default , after 90 days , clear off .
Another reason for creating disk images .

[RabidDog]

The person told me it would be better if you had a gig or ram or over but there was a setting he had me go and turn off does anyone know what the setting is???

..Ah... well... that narrows it down a lot, it was a bloke. and it was a registry tweak. ("Elementary, my Dear watson") The bloke who told you about it, may even remember it? just a thought...

Change the registry from "shutdown=24hours" to "shutdown=never"
and also change "userlevel=sensible" to "userlevel=eibwen"

[JimboS]

Sometimes what I read amazes me...
A computer can be left on 24/7........
Think servers!!!!!!
If it burps, you do a re-start..........
What's the problem??????????

[redwudz]

I have one with XP that runs 24/7. It reboots itself about twice a month and reloads the same programs to go right back to where it left off. Not a problem. I only know that it has rebooted when I see a program window open on the desktop. The reboots keep it running at a decent speed.

[mol3000]

well i am not using it as a server or anything just regular xp.... it just doesnt like staying on for a long time before little errors start poping up all over the place

[Heavensent]

little errors ?
of what kind ?
i have my system running for weeks befor i restart it, no prob.
i think you should solve the errors befor you do anything to the os.

[Video Head]

What kind of "little errors" start popping up all over the place? Be specific. What messages do you get, what behaviour does it exhibit? Possibly you have a corrupted or misconfigured install, virus, malware or spyware.

My HTPC runs on XP. When it is not in use I like to shut it down, just as I do with any other component in my home theatre. However, I do not wish to go through a full boot every time I turn it on, so I put it into hybernation - suspend to RAM with wake on USB. I have been doing this for over 2 years now. The machine gets a full restart about once every month. I also run an AntiVirus, spyware/malware checker, defrag the drive and run a checkdisc.

I have another workstation running XP and it goes 24/7. Been doing it for years. It also gets a defrag once a month and there is usually some reason to reboot the system every 30 days but I definately do not have "little errors" popping up all over the place, that would be a cause for concern.

Not certain if you can schedule XP to do a restart every so often but I have never found it to be a big issue pressing start/turn off computer/restart and waiting a few minutes once every month...

VH

[Krispy Kritter]

Most likely "the little errors" are related to whatever software he is using. Opening/closing some applications time and again can sometimes cause issues such as slowness. A reboot often clears the problem.

While running 24/7 doesn't often affect machines used as servers, I can see it being an issue on a machine used daily. However, the issue isn't really an XP issue, but a problem with the app(s) that you are using. They likely aren't releasing resources when they are closed.