Shutdown of NT

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rdr\Parameters] "FileSystemControlFilter"=dword:00000000.

this will speed up your machine a bit.

Yes rebooting a NT server will free up system resources.

No, it does not matter. Applications running on the background is what brings the resources down. you may edit your startup folder or edit the registry to stop applications from running everytime you turn your computer on. Or you can download a startup manager (third party software) and use it to manage your applications.

I have seen a need to reboot nt4.0 servers at least every 3-6 months.It is especially needed on the printserver/pdc. The peculiar symptom that I see is that 2-3 print queues
start hanging up solid once or twice a day ,yet performance monitor indicates lots of free memory. I have about 40 printers on the one system.I reboot and the symptom does
not reoccur for 2 months. I am at svcpck-5.

I have seen a need to reboot nt4.0 servers at least every 3-6 months.It is especially needed on the printserver/pdc. The peculiar symptom that I see is that 2-3 print queues
start hanging up solid once or twice a day ,yet performance monitor indicates lots of free memory. I have about 40 printers on the one system.I reboot and the symptom does
not reoccur for 2 months. I am at svcpck-5.

Rebooting worked well for freeing up resources in Win95 and 98, but rebooting in NT doesn?t free up resources in that way. A good approach is to analyze the current applications that you have running. Look in the task manager to determine what processes are eating up memory and CPU time. If it's a server, run performance monitor. Hint: programs that use nwlink or any other protocol, sometime send broadcasts to the network, this could also slow down the system.

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