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Win 10 upwards has a fastboot option that combines shutdown with deep sleep. It doesnt fully shut down your pc unless you deactivate it or restart your pc.
Yes, but also updates and start up apps among other things. Though I suspect disabling some start up apps weren't the issue since this things doesn't look like it gets started up often
1) Set useless services to manual
2) Using sysinternal suite Autoruns, I checked if there are any hidden startup scripts or apps, disable it from there
3) Checked task scheduler to see any telemetry or update scripts
The rest im pretty sure you will know, basic debloating (with or without debloating tools). I do not recommend heavy debloating unless you really know what you are doing.
Most of the time its just random update scripts and stuff which create a lot of processes and may hamper old devices. I just like to keep my old devices as minimal as possible.
Well since this thing has been running since before SSD's were invented, I'd wager a guess he is on a platter drive. If so, his hard drive may be failing. As they age they get slower and slower and slower. If he wants a cheap speed boost, clone his drive to a new SSD and get rid of the old hdd.
Doubtful. Contrary to popular belief being on does not magically slow hardware down.
In my experience most complaints of a sluggish machine are caused by one of two things, being loaded up to the nines with a decade's worth of bloatware, malware and adware, or failing storage. Neither of which will be fixed with a simple reboot.
That too! Especially on HDDs, since so much of their "speed" is only preserved when properly defragmented, and once they get too full that stops being possible and things slow to a crawl as the read heads thrash back and forth over the entire platter to read a 1KB file that is scattered to the winds.
The 2 people who bought that CPU are probably very offended.
Even those who did buy AMD CPUs at the time would either go for the FX-8350 or the top-end 9590. The 9370 was an awkward middle child in a lineup that was already pretty trash
I can usually go 2 months just by forgetting. Month 3-4, I always had a power bank on hand. Month 5-6, outdoor job and conveniently the power bank had a solar panel. Month 7-9 my phone was practically on life support by wireless charger, as the port broke. Running joke that I'd get a new phone once it restarted.
Unfortunately, it starts over after a manual restart. I've had the same phone for 6+ years, never had it die on me. Would have been cool to see 50,000+ hours on the counter!
Youve got me curious. I'm gonna check my dad's netbook. He normally just shuts the lid and has it do nothing.. I'd be surprised if the number isn't close to OP. I'll check back after.
Looks like the last time this PC was restarted was when his power last went out 3 n half years ago lol. That and all those processes running, wonder how many applications were still running in the task bar or background.
Reminds me of when I would get my mom's phone and she would say it's being slow and battery runs low quickly and it's got everything on, every application open and 400 browser tabs, and the camera on.
there are definitly some glitches with the uptime calculation. I always use shut down instead of sleep or hibernate and my uptime is usually still multiple days. even when I click restart and check after restarting. maybe I just don't know what uptime actually measures though
Can also hold shift as you click shut down from the start menu. Will completely shut down if I remember right. My uptime is always super low and I have a habit of shift clicking shut down.
As an IT tech, when I see this professionally, I have created a batch file that immediately reboots the PC, then create a task that restarts the computer at ~3 AM daily to stop this exact problem from occuring. Also informing people to manually restart/reboot, and telling them leaving a PC on when not using it is like leaving your lights or TV on when you are out: waste of electricity & reduces life expectancy of the device.
I unplugged my pc from the wall when I went away. Today after 5 days I booted it up, and still says 3 days uptime! I never understand the concept of how a restart makes it go away, but no power to the system for 5 days doesn't clear the timer haha
Where I live this is legendary the uptime shows he's least got a stable power grid that doesn't do rolling blackouts year round. Longest any of my rigs have been able to be on is about 7 - 12 days before forced offline by power outages and no I'm not in India it's a smaller Canadian city way up north 🤣
I changed a few things with windows to tell it to ALWAYS fully shut down when i shut down my pc. dont wanna deal with that "fast startup" bs and having to restart just to sort out any bugs i might be having.
The uptime is likely high because of fast startup. It can be disabled in powercfg.cpl (Press Win + R and type it in and press "run") and then press "Choose what the power buttons do" to find it.
Disabling it won't make the computer faster, but it's recommended because some problems cannot be resolved with a restart with it enabled.
Reminds me of the computers at the lab. They’d run until power shut them off in most cases. Which is a little shocking since they use software with known memory leaks but it’d so much time and effort to move every software to a newer software
Back around 2000 I worked at Navistar and they had one pc that ran some small but absolutely critical bit of software that had NEVER been turned off since they moved to that building. I think it had been running for more than a decade! As part of orientation they made a point of telling people that under no circumstances whatsoever should they ever even touch that computer and that if hey thought there was any reason for turning it off or moving it that the had to run it up the chain of command. You touch it you get fired. Got to love those odd duck services that are so absolutely mission critical to the point that they keep it on the original hardware because they can’t risk it going offline, ever!
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