It's official: restarting your darn PC is the best thing you can do

Sometime ago, I wrote half-jokingly that when a computer is in trouble, switch it off and then switch on again. Very often, the problem will be gone.

Now it's official. The following is a paragraph from the Smarthouse website on the Microsoft Media Center OS upgrade:

A big complaint about the Media Center OS is that it hasn't been as reliable as the consumer electronics devices it's supposed to compete with, mainly because it is, after all, a Windows OS. Laemmel [product manager of the Windows Client Division] admits that, with any version of Windows, periodically "it's best just to restart the darn thing." To this end, a new setting prompts the PC to restart Media Center-specific services. The default is for it to perform that task at 4 a.m.; but you can change the time, and the PC will skip the restart if it's busy.