I'm the guest techie speaker in Anne's Computer Care class to which she
referred, and the instructions for rebooting at least once per day came from me,
after watching a lot of different people using a lot of different applications
on a lot of different machines.

A general instruction needs to be applicable to the majority of users, and/or be
harmless for the ones to whom it doesn't apply.  My "reboot once a day" rule
falls in that category. For people who choose to keep their Win95 computers on
24 hours a day, 7 day per week, it can do no harm to close all programs and
reboot once per day.

On the other hand, for 24/7 users, some of them *will* be using giant
resource-sucking applications, hours at a time, and for them, rebooting once a
day is a lovely piece of preventive maintenance.  (Netscape 4x and IE4x both
fall into the sucking resource category, if on and active for hours at a time.)

Anne's Computer Care class is a class specifically designed for novices. I am
always quite conservative in my dealings with novices, hence this instruction.

Roxanne Pierce
R2 Systems, San Diego
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Schriftman, MS, MBA
> Sent: Monday, June 08, 1998 13:53
>
> In my computer labs, we do not reboot very often.  The
> computers run 24x7 with various students in and out all day.  We use a
> multiplicity of apps. I reboot the machines once a week.
>
> >On  5 Jun 98 at 6:42, anne neighbors wrote:
> >
> >> In Computer Care class at the Career Center in San Diego,
> >> we have been instructed to restart the computer at least once
> >> a day to free up resources.

> >This might be a little excessive, depending on what applications
> >you have been using and for how long.
> >
> >David G