I try to reboot as few times as possible. The only problem with that logic is when something I do breaks the system but I don’t know about it until after a reboot. Case in point is when I installed a program demo called TuneBite about 2 weeks ago. I just restarted today to get a Realtek error:
“EACCESS Violation”

Yay. I had no idea it was caused by TuneBite either. I figured something was corrupt in my sound drivers. Sounds were still working, but not the way they should have been (internal speaker worked, external jacks did nothing).

I installed the newest versions of the Microsoft HD Audio driver and the newest release of the RealTek Audio driver. Rebooted. Same error.

Uninstalled TuneBite software – Rebooted – Error is now gone. I’m not a big fan of software that always loads in the background either, especially when that software shouldn’t be loading in the background. I had only used TuneBite one time, but according to the add/remove programs it said the last time I used it was today. Today != 2 weeks ago.

I can not recommend this software.