{"id":1526,"date":"2008-12-04T19:23:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T00:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2009-01-25T13:24:23","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T18:24:23","slug":"dont-reboot-just-logoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/12\/04\/dont-reboot-just-logoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Reboot – Just Logoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while ago I wrote about how Windows still works just fine for me<\/a>, and I wanted to follow up on that.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Today I was having some problems opening new windows – from any program. Being a programmer myself and knowing a thing or two about how Windows works on the inside, I suspected that some program had perhaps used up a bunch of “handles” and now there weren’t any more to create new windows with. Being in the middle of work, I didn’t really want to spend time debugging the problem (who does?) but I’d had a lot of big programs open lately – it wasn’t unreasonable to think that one of them had some sort of memory leak.<\/p>\n

For many people in this same situation, they would reboot their computer to “fix” the problem. But I don’t like doing that – for one thing, it takes a while to reboot!<\/p>\n

Also, I’m sort of proud of my “uptime.” (You can find programs all over the place that will tell you how long your system has been up & running for since it’s last reboot – this time is often known as “uptime.”) As of right now, my uptime is 11 days 23 hours and 20 minutes<\/strong>. Sure, it’s not the months (or years) of uptime that a Linux box might have… but it’s not bad! (For Windows!)<\/p>\n

So, I didn’t want to reboot, but I needed to free the handles (or memory or whatever had leaked) from whatever program had been “bad.” What to do? Just log off!<\/strong><\/p>\n

A lot of people forget that logging off does a lot of the same good as a reboot. Unless you suspect your problem is in your system’s kernel resources (or in an always-on system service or something), a log off is often all you need to do to get things working smoothly again. (Note that this won’t work if you’ve just done an installation of a new program and it requires a reboot – that sort of thing really does require a full reboot to replace in-use files.)<\/p>\n

I did that myself, and sure enough – some system resources were freed up. So maybe later I’ll get around to tracking down what program leaked them – but for now, I’m just happy to be running smoothly.<\/p>\n

So, a tip for the impatient – instead of rebooting, try just logging off and logging back on to Windows. It might do the trick for you!<\/p>\n

Power button image courtesy of the Crystal Icon Set<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A while ago I wrote about how Windows still works just fine for me, and I wanted to follow up on that. Today I was having some problems opening new windows – from any program. 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