should I restart mac or not after having loaded any prog?

[Flowero4ka]

Hello everybody! Be so kind, please, to reply my question about windows on mac...

On the site of "apple" it's written, that "I shouldn’t have to restart my computer simply because I connected any prog. And I shouldn’t have to go off on a scavenger hunt, searching doggedly for device drivers, so that my computer can see and get along with that shiny new peripheral."

But if I open windows on mac and I want to load any progs on windows (because I have disk for PC, not especially for mac). Should I reload my computer, because it's Windows... or shouldn't I restart it because it's mac? The same thing is about drivers... If I can't open any program in mac, I will do it in wind, but then I have to buy drivers, don't I?..

Explain, please...

 

[richkent72]

If I've understood your question correctly...

If you're installing an application in Mac OS X then you (almost) never have to restart. Sometimes a software update tells you to restart. OS X will also usually identify and run new hardware without getting a driver from elsewhere.

However, if you are running Windows under bootcamp then you are not running OX S. Your Mac is acting as any other Windows PC would. If you install a new application you will need to restart and if you add new hardware you will need the relevant driver.

 

[reh]

No matter what operating system (Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, etc...) that you're installing software in, you should only need to restart if the software installation asks you to.

 

[Flowero4ka]

However, if you are running Windows under bootcamp then you are not running OX S. Your Mac is acting as any other Windows PC would. If you install a new application you will need to restart and if you add new hardware you will need the relevant driver.

I don't like Bootcamp - the progs couldn't work in the same time! I mean, if I run Windows simultaneously with Mac with help of Parallels or Fusion... Should I restart and buy drivers then?

 

[user13]

If you run Windows via Parallels/Boot Camp/whatever you run it natively on your Mac, just like it would be on a simple PC. That's why all the rules and principles of Windows are used on your Mac. You'll have to restart your Windows often as it asks you to after plugging in a new device, installing drivers or an app.

[edit] You are not buying drivers for any hardware. You buy hardware and download/install drivers for free. And then Windows often asks you to restart your computer