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Not to support Windows, but what are you doing that requires restarts multiple times per day?

I leave my personal Windows 10 desktop running for about a month at a time so I don't have to reopen 5 different windows and arrange them across three screens for uni work every evening. It works fine.

Mind you, if it was a Mac I'd not even have to reopen or arrange them after restarting the machine - they'd still be there. Although my work Mac loves to randomise which display gets which windows and desktop background... And randomly pan all bluetooth audio to the left ear once a week. I guess all OS's have their issues.

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> I leave my personal Windows 10 desktop running for about a month at a time

My Win10 Home desktop downloads updates when I'm not looking - and sometimes when I'm actually using the thing - and then reboots all on its own. I have no control over this; there have been occasions when the reboot has happened while I was working.

It happens roughly once a week.

You can use Reboot-Blocker to prevent that: https://udse.de/reboot-blocker/

I've been using this method for years and it works great. It uses a windows debug feature to launch cmd instead of the reboot scheduler. You never see the cmd window, as it's launched by SYSTEM. This prevents Windows update from scheduling a reboot, otherwise the system function as normal. You do need to reboot periodically, but now it's on your schedule.

Source: https://lazyadmin.nl/it/how-to-stop-automatic-restart-win-10...

> what are you doing that requires restarts multiple times per day?

Outlook, Teams, Chrome, COMRAD (radiology RIS), Spotify and InteleViewer (DICOM viewer). Without restarts Spotify stops working, the software loses track of what day it is (it assumes the day prior) and things get slow or unresponsive.

Maybe it’s the software and not the OS. I run all those except COMRAD on a Mac ok though.

Mac and multi display and window location is a special hell. My father is a heavy Photohop user and palette organisation is a daily battle with multi screen. When screens wake up windows and palettes reorganise if the system detects one screen and not two briefly. It’s a big drain on productivity.

Yea I dont support Microsoft either but I do have to run it on multipule machines for work and I don't need to restart unless to switch into Linux. It sounds like one of your apps has a memory leak or something. Do you check task manager for resource hogging?

> Do you check task manager for resource hogging?

Awkward… no, I haven’t dug into it at all. I now will.

"My applications, not written by Microsoft, are broken. Obviously, it's Windows fault".

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