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Turn computer off when leaving for a while and night
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#1 Postby beachbum_al » Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:45 am

I know there is difference in views on this subject but I am wondering what people here do.

At night or when you leave your house and there might be a nice little lightening storm (remember I live near the Coast and we get a lot of afternoon thunderstorm storms.) do you turn your computer off?

Or do you leave it running? Just wondering!
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#2 Postby beachbum_al » Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:46 am

I am having disagreement with husband's brother other this!
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#3 Postby wxmann_91 » Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:58 am

I don't turn off my computer when I leave or when there's a lightning storm (hardly none of those in SoCal), but I do turn it off at night as my computer's overworked and not in the best condition (it has been struck by viruses a million times and each time I've fixed it, but that luck won't last forever). By turning it off at night I save energy also.
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#4 Postby CajunMama » Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:59 am

Restart???? what's that? :lol: I leave mine on all the time. I do my scheduled tasks while i am sleeping.
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#5 Postby Petmom » Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:04 pm

I turn it off when I leave for a while and at night. And when we have thunderstorms.

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#6 Postby GalvestonDuck » Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:17 pm

Mine gets shut down and started back up more often than the lights in a Texas execution chamber. :)
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#7 Postby DaylilyDawn » Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:24 pm

At the first sound of a thunderstorm here in Lakeland, I shut the computer down and unplug it and the cable modem from the wall. All periphals andthe tower are plugged into a battery backup. As soon as Windows shuts down and the light goes off on the tower, I turn off the batttery backup , it is plugged into a surge protector, I then unplug the surge protector from the wall. By having every thing plugged into the backup or the surge protector, I am not taking any chances. Not to long after I got my computer I had trouble getting online because of the modem , so I used an external modem and a lightning strike got it.
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#8 Postby Lindaloo » Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:25 pm

I have always been under the impression that continuing to shut it down is hard on the computer and does more damage than good.
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#9 Postby Brent » Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:34 pm

CajunMama wrote:Restart???? what's that? :lol: I leave mine on all the time. I do my scheduled tasks while i am sleeping.


Same here. Plus... about a year ago we had problems with it not wanting to start up properly, so I try to avoid restarts unless I absolutely have to.
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#10 Postby Brent » Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:34 pm

Lindaloo wrote:I have always been under the impression that continuing to shut it down is hard on the computer and does more damage than good.


I believe that. Most of my computer problems have happened because the computer wouldn't start up, so I just don't shut down now unless I have to.
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#11 Postby drudd1 » Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:37 pm

All of ours run 24/7, with scheduled tasks set to run in the wee hours of the morning. I have done this for years.
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#12 Postby Brent » Fri Jul 29, 2005 1:21 pm

drudd1 wrote:All of ours run 24/7, with scheduled tasks set to run in the wee hours of the morning. I have done this for years.


So it's a myth that leaving the computer on all the time reduces it's lifespan???
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#13 Postby Guest » Fri Jul 29, 2005 2:09 pm

I leave mine on 24/7 most of the time. However, if I am out of town on vacation or something, I close it down, doing virus scans either before or after I return.

I have battery back-up UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply), so if lightning takes out the power or a rat enters an electrical cabinet and messes things up (:lol:) , I have 10 minutes on battery power to complete what I am doing or come to a stopping point and shut down.
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#14 Postby gtalum » Fri Jul 29, 2005 3:18 pm

It's purely a matter of choice.

Neither one will significantly increase or decrease the machine's lifespan.

Personally I opt to conserve energy and turn off all of my computers each evening. With brand new machines, the differences between "sleep mode" and "off" are so insignificant that there is probably a negligible energy advantage to turning a machine off at night. But all of my computers are old. :)

If I ran a server, of course, I would leave it running 24-7.
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#15 Postby Guest » Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:37 pm

The termal stresses of warming up and cooling off are the biggest factor in "aging" a computer -- especially things that get really hot, such as CRT monitors and motherboard componants like capacitors.
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#16 Postby gtalum » Fri Jul 29, 2005 5:10 pm

Anonymous wrote:The termal stresses of warming up and cooling off are the biggest factor in "aging" a computer -- especially things that get really hot, such as CRT monitors and motherboard componants like capacitors.


While technically true, my oldest active machine is ~10 years old, and has been turned on and off pretty much every time I've used it. :)
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