Is it better to shut down your computer every day or put it in a hibernate mode? I used my notebook pretty much everyday. Only occasionally are there days that I don't use it.
Forget Standby, forget hibernation... clean shut down is the best thing, flushs out your and if u've sustained some hd errors, they'll be detected at next boot. if u have a 1gb or more of ram, disable the page file entirely (or place it on a secondary drive - not much my recommendation but have even seen it sized 8Gb on a 4 attached drive RAID-0 setup). Your system will boot faster and u'll feel the difference in apps too. standby can kill ur pc overtime, wether u leave it on for hours or just a few minutes and hibernation kills ur hd... the more ram u got the bigger the time required to write a bigger resume file. and with time u'll notice the slower the hibernation process has become.
The biggest negative is the amount of time you have to wait for the computer to start up. Also, if you leave your computer on, you can access it remotely and have it download and install updates for Windows and Anti-Virus. In the end, it all adds up to time. You'll save a few dollars in electricity and your components may last a little longer by shutting down every night.
moved to correct forum as not a windows issue. unless you have a damn good firewall & have battery backup then shut down the computer when not being used. i done that for years & have had no problems yet.
Just shutdown a Unix work server the other day, it'd been up and running for (i kid you not) just shy of 3 years (930'ish days) and (as we anticipated) a handful of disks (internal and in external array) died upon restart. We dug out a few spare disks and let the RAID software do it's magic/scratch our heads remembering the various black magic needed to help the software do it's thing. It can happen when hard disks are up and running forever. But i digress, of course for most of us, PC's just aren't left up and running for that long; thinking about it, in years gone by in our call centre we found that a lot of the desktop machines were left on virtually forever so more often than not the most common problem was hard drives dying. It's only recently that i've been using modern PC's at home, for years i've been using ex-work PC's so they tend to die after a while, motherboards give out, network adapter goes awohl etc etc. Anyways, most of my machines are shutdown when not being used, i tend to hibernate most of them then switch off the UPS's. My laptop tends to be torrenting so that gets left on for days at a time, it's 3yrs old now and (touch wood) still going strong. It gets hibernated when not being used, but every now and then it gets a full powerdown/restart. (it's only off for a few days each week, if it was going to be off for longer i'd do a proper full shutdown). In my opinion powering down machines regularly is better on the life expectancy of machines than leaving them on forever. Don't forget to be nice to your machines too, ie defrag now and then, clear out all the crud etc etc. Some of my machines are Linux so i don't have to faff about with defragging etc as it's, well, not Windows ddp has a nice copy/paste somewhere that he used to post around the place a lot, ie about using ccleaner etc etc
creaky, you mean this? download, update & run in this order. ccleaner http://www.ccleaner.com/ cwshredder http://www.intermute.com/products/cwshredder.html ad-aware 2007 http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-20...=dl-ad-aware&subj=dl&tag=top5&cdlpid=10045910 spybot s&d http://www.majorgeeks.com/download2471.html i have a customer who had a tenant who left her computer on all the time. was setting it up to use wireless on his network so i shutdown her computer to do the work. once i finished, i tried to power up the system but no power. the psu had long seized up & most of the caps had domed & leaking. 1 of the signs when a fan needs to be replaced or lubricated is when you 1st start off the computer & the fan makes a groaning noise which disappears after a while. that tenant didn't hear that sign so the psu fried itself.
It seems as though, if you DONT shut off your computer problems appear but they don't do crap? The UNIX server was shit off and THEN it's harddrives stopped working? So wouldn't the moral be to keep it on? As for me I shut it off, no reason to waste electrcity.
That server would have been left on forever more, or until it next needed some maintenance/patching or whatever, it was only shutdown as we'd migrated all data off it thus it had been retired, was just wasting electricity in the end. I forget the technical reason why hard drives eventually give up the ghost if left running idle forever.. neither of the mirrored boot drives failed, i guess due to them getting some very light exercise every day running various scripts/system processes
The wifes computer has been up for about 4 years now, What with all the reboots loading updates by windows or and symantec it gets rebooted at least once a month anyway bean55
