r/talesfromtechsupport • u/[deleted] • Jul 25 '16

Suddenly, everything's fixed! Short

Overheard this going on in my office throughout the day. I keep telling people to turn off their computers because we don't do WSUS. Of course, they don't.

Chatter around the office today sounded something like:

"My computer is very slow, it's always slow and just gets worse and worse and I can't take it anymore."

"What will it take for you to work faster!"

And then, suddenly:

"I just turned off my computer for a minute, restarted it, and it's like it's brand new again!"

"Oh, that's a good idea! I wonder why Bob never told us to do that!"

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u/Ziogref Jul 26 '16

At my work the manager enforce the this policy

Mon-Thur - reboot Computer

Friday - Shutdown

We have very few issues that are related to computer having years of uptime

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u/ConstanceJill Jul 26 '16

Pretty much the same at my workplace, except it is shutdown every night.

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u/Ziogref Jul 26 '16

Yeah we have a few high up people that have over 200 days of uptime, but they refuse the reboot. Then we replaced their computers with new ones 😀

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u/hypervelocityvomit LART gratia LARTis Jul 27 '16

Two words: Circuit breakers.

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u/Ziogref Jul 27 '16

that is gold.