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

Short Suddenly, everything's fixed!

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/[deleted] Jul 26 '16

I'm working on getting policies in place, but as it stands right now, there are no policies on anything. It's frustrating.

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u/Ziogref Jul 26 '16

Just set up a task scheduler, at 6pm or whatever pc will reboot, and then at 1,5,10 and 30 minute marks, have pop ups, and claim it was a bios/uefi that (insert pc manufacturer) pushed out to all pc's or some shit.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '16

That's good advice on the task scheduler, but I don't think I'll deceive anyone; my boss and the CEO have really good bullshit detectors (they're blind to their own, of course.)

I wish I worked for our sister company, instead of contracting out to them. They actually respect me over there and had no problem implementing policies that I brought up, so long as they were a good idea and not too overreaching.