windows 7 - Is rebooting my computer about 6X/hr for 6 hrs harmful?
2014-07
anne dezie
Is rebooting my computer about 6X/hr for 6 hrs everyday harmful? I am using the restart option through the start menu. The purpose of my rebooting is that I am installing and uninstalling different software on my windows 7 computer.
David Schwartz
No, it's completely harmless. You can reboot your computer as often as you want so long as you're not yanking out the power cord or something like that.
Questioner
Upgrading from Vista home premium to win 7 hoe premium from DVD ex Digital river on gigabyte VM900m; core 2 duo 2.13GHz 2GB ram; Western digital 250GB HD. Got as far as "Expanding Windows files ...100% the error message "Computer encountered unexpected error... To install windows press OK to restart computer and reinstall windows" The computer then reboots, loads Windows 7 (new logo) a essage that says "setup is starting services" then the error message comes back. I can get into BIOS to change boot priority but the computer just ignores this and goes through the same sequence. At the point of "to boot from CD/DVD press any key" my keyboard is deactivated and i cannot make a choice and the sae sequence occurs. I cannot break the sequence - I have push every key, disconnected every external device including HDMI screen, but nothing stops the loop. Any ideas? Auswoolf
mmDonuts
I encountered something similar to this in a lab when doing test installs of Windows 7 RTM downloaded from MSDN. In our case it it was either a bad download or bad burn. Downloading and burning it again seemed to work fine, but the original DVD didn't seem to work in any machines. If memtest doesn't show any problems it could be the media.
John T
Sounds like a memory issue. When Windows is expanding the files, it's usually extracting .cabs and other compressed files in memory to prepare for the next step, copying files to disk. Give memtest86+ a go and report back with the results so we can help you further.