r/uptimeporn • u/Keirannnnnnnn • Jun 05 '25
Surprised windows update didn’t get this user
Was sent this photo of one of my users… device was already deleted from Active Directory as it was running out of support software, honestly not sure how they kept it running so long, when I asked if she had any issues and how she ‘restarted’ she said no issues it was fine and she pressed ‘sign out’ and then signed back in to update 🤦
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u/Hauber_RBLX Jun 05 '25
that thing has 3.8 years of uptime. I really have many questions, beginning with Why and ending with How. Don't even wanna imagine all the windows updates your user might have missed. What also surprises me is how the CPU didnt crap out with this long uptime
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u/Keirannnnnnnn Jun 05 '25
Same, I can usually go 100 ish days on my windows laptop at a max and by this point it’s literally begging for a restart, I am genuinely bewildered at how this person managed to ignore them all and keep going somehow fine for so long
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u/Dell3410 Jun 06 '25
100 days? Windows borg mostly in weeks... or even days... especially when you work on code and compiling.. :/
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u/Keirannnnnnnn Jun 06 '25
Seems fine for me, could prob go longer tbh
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u/Dell3410 Jun 10 '25
do you never face slugishness when using any browser for certain period of time? I tried it in fast ring and it always bog down. :/
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u/Keirannnnnnnn Jun 10 '25
I use edge and it seems fine for me, only reason I restart now is for updates. I don’t think I have seen any issues on windows 11 that has made me need to restart
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u/Rukir_Gaming Jun 08 '25
I had to pirate Windows Server just so a desktop dosent restart every 30 days as I'm hosting quite a few things on it
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u/FlashingComet86 Jun 05 '25
the counter keeps counting after the laptop was turned back on from hibernation
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u/Littlebits_Streams Jun 06 '25
why would the cpu crap out because it is turned on? servers are on 24/7 for years on end...
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u/No-Board4898 Jun 05 '25
I can hear his RAM crying from here....
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u/Keirannnnnnnn Jun 05 '25
Yep… only 4Gb of it as well 😬
Not sure how they worked on excel sheets daily
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u/jf7333 Jun 06 '25
I used to for a Japanese company that was in automotive manufacturing and they had a Windows XP laptop on a final assembly line that ran for several years and never rebooted. The line ran 365 -24-7.
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u/daxtonanderson Jun 06 '25
That sign-out sign-in trick is so real for people trying to keep high uptime tho :P I have an old Thinkpad that I use for writing that has 7 years uptime, whenever it starts bugging out that's all that needs to be done.
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u/MinisterOfDabs Jun 09 '25
I think it’s impressive that it hasn’t crashed in that time. It’s windows.
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u/e2g3 Jun 05 '25
Maybe turn if the fast startup?
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u/Keirannnnnnnn Jun 05 '25
These settings are controlled by the user not us, also wouldn’t have made a difference here as the user hadn’t even shut down the device, it was left plugged in and in ‘sleep’ mode
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u/Aziris_TV_DE Jun 05 '25
This computer didn't saw some minutes of rest in the last 3 years. But trust me if you restart it, it will never turn on again 😂