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Any Value to Rebooting Daily with Win2K?

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I know that under Win98 rebooting frees system resources and memory. Is there any advantage to periodically rebooting with Win2K? I have tons of ram. Thanks!
 
I guess that W9x series has a buggy kernel. W2K is much better designed than W9x kernel. This is so true that M$ left Me on the dust and has broken the sequence. WXP is based on NT/2K kernel. I am using W2K for almost 8 months without a single crash. If you have tons of memory and your system is running fine, probably you will never ever need to do this.

This procedure is a desperate and ridiculous solution for a bad designed M$ OS.
 
First of all you mention you have tons of RAM. Resources and RAM have nothing to do with one another. You could throw all the RAM you wanted at Win9x and resources would be the same as if you run with 32MB. Resources are unlimited with W2K.

With that being said, a properly configured computer loaded with W2K does not need to be rebooted to free resources. The W2K kernal is light years better than the 9x kernal when it comes to freeing resources and memory management. Due to caching, especially with larger amounts of RAM, you are better off not rebooting since the information you may need has a good chance of being stored in RAM. This means it doesn't have to find it on the disk. If you reboot, you force all information to be read from disk until W2K starts to fill the cache up with frequently used information again.

If you have problems with W2K slowing down between reboots, you either have a misconfigured system or some really shoddy software.
 
The NT kernel is way better, but there are still memory leaks (NS v6 for instance). I reboot about once a month or so, just because.
 


<< NS v6 for instance >>


I assume you're referring to Netscape ver. 6. Anyone running that version is a glutton for punishment. The NT kernal can handle many forms of poorly written software but it can't catch all instances. In your case I would look for an alternative, I hear version 6.1 is much better. Personally I stay away from Netscape myself.
 
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