From: "Mark Hessey" 

"Gene McAloon"  wrote:I don't shut down my
> computers at night because I anticipate problems if I did not.  I don't
believe
> there would be any. I see no reason why there would.

I've been perfectly happy with XP with similar usage to yours, it has never
crashed and the very first Windows update back in Sep. 2001 didn't require
a re-boot which amazed me at the time (I think every one since has asked to
reboot, so it was short-lived awe ). I never even defragged the
drive until about 18 months in and noticed no difference in performance
after I did.

 I can't recall the details at this point, but I did have to reboot previous
versions of Windows fairly often - probably resource usage in 3.x and I
don't recall in W95/98, but it wouldn't be uncommon to reboot about once a
day (in addition to the start of day boot) as I recall.

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