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How often do you shutdown your computer?

Give some comments about shutting down computers. Is it better to shutdown daily or once a week? What is the your opinion, post it and share with us!

I never shut down my systems. I mean, I have a couple that are rarely used and they get shut off between uses but my main machines stay on 24/7. I sometimes shut down if there are tornado or hurricaine warnings.

There was a time when it made a difference in the life of components because of the warming and cooling, but I've not tested that theory lately to see if it still applies to modern technology.

I only shutdown for installation of new hardware and if there is a electrical storm. Myabe it's not good to have the computer on all the time cause maybe something will burn or so and the life of your computer will go down from 8 to 4 years... but anyway, i don't think many people change computer because they are so old the die.....

Shutdown - NEVER
Warm reboot -about 5 times a day

Not that BeOS is that unstable, I've kept it up for 3 weeks on another machine until its HDD died (very old machine), but that I just boot from BeOS into freeDOS into SuSE and back into BeOS a lot...

It is better to never shut down your system except in the case of storms. If there is a hurricane or other natural disaster then shutting down your PC isn't going to save it .

I shut mine down because I didnt think it mattered

I shut mine down at night, or when I go out, but only if the computer is not busy doing anything (e.g. downloading large files).

It doesn't do any harm to leave it running continuously, but it isn't very 'green' for the environment. Also, if you are going out, it is an extra risk leaving your PC switched ON as if it developed a fault and caught fire (not very likely, but not impossible), then there would be no one around to put it out.

I shut mine down at least daily because electricity is expensive out here on the left coast.

I shut mine down every night :P

I haven't shut down my computer in a long time. Last time I did was to move it from school to home. I haven't had a problem with it yet and I don't feel it is that harmful.

Whenever I wont' be back within 24 hours I shut it off...
Other than that it's mostly on, as I don't like waiting 30 seconds (boot time) before I can use it...

Though it happens my farther asks me to turn it off due to the electrical price....

I never, ever, shut down any of my 10 active machines. My 16 inactive machines come up when I need them or am doing diagnostic works.

Some of these machines have been on 24 hours a day under 100% cpuload for half a decade with not one component failure. And they will still continue to do such for a long, looooong time...

26 PCs. with many at 100% load. What on earth are you doing with these?

I do hope you're not running a SPAM empire.

That's classified.

I never shut my computers down. I have 2.

I also never shut my workstation in the office down, either.

I think its bad for computers to be switched on and off all the time.

I only shut down for hardware maintainence, for cleaning or moving, or perhaps if there was an electrical storm.

Heheh LOL I just noticed that post. I found it moderately funny, at least in my present state of consciousness anyway....

every night

is too close to my bed and makes too much noise

I've got 3 pc's in my room, plus a gigabit router, a adsl router, a cable modem, 3 screens, the laser mouse, the lights of all the lan cards and stuff plus the noise of the fans, and i'm just so used to it that when someone comes to my room the ask me how can i sleep in my room with that noise...... what noise are you talking about???

jejej. btw, what's so classified that you are doing there with all that pc's up 24h and at 100% cpu load?? just curious

Thats my reason DA, but im getting an SK7 with Stealth Vantec fan, that'll shut it up. Then I may permently leave it on 24/7.

Shut mine down only if my roommate and I are both going to be gone for more than a week. He connects through my computer (ICS) to get to the internet. I rebooted today because twice in the last week and a half my computer was unresponsive after being idle for over 8 hours. The screen was off and its like it wouldn't wake up from sleep mode, but I don't use sleep mode...