[QUOTE=BookCat;3398050]In my experience, not totally shutting down your computer regularly starts to create problems: slowness, browser and program crashing, etc.[quote]
I've never seen any of this. But, then, I also don't have dozens of poorly behaved background programs running like many people. Basically, if you don't have any of the cruft (toolbars, hardware "helpers", search engines, etc.) installed, you're fine.
My current uptime on Windows 7 is 76 days.
Quote:
|
I believe it's also a security risk.
|
The #1 security risk on Windows is the person sitting at the keyboard, so, yeah, shutting down the computer would help with that. But, turning it on again and using it would bring the problem right back.
Yes, not patching can be an issue, but again, most patches fix issues that won't ever happen if the user doesn't click where he isn't supposed to. If you keep your browser, Flash, Java, and your PDF reader patched, you will cover most of the vectors, and shouldn't need to even log out.