Do you guys turn your desktop computer off at night?

Question

just wondering, at the end of they day do you turn your computer off, or just leave it on all the time. just wanted to know what people do, most my frends turn theres off, but i leave mine on, what do you do?

Answer 1

Most nights I turn mine off. If not a cat will jump up on my desk and the light coming from the monitor will wake me up.

Answer 2

Packet Storm? I once had a cheap NIC that was broadcasting across the network and slowing everything down. I also once plugged both ends of a network cable into a switch and caused a catastrophic loop back which brought a LAN to its knees. So packet storms can be an issue. More expensive Switches can detect them and shut down the port. So either you have both ends of 1 cable plugged in, OR your suspect computer is braodcasting like mad when it is suppose to be asleep. At my shop.. I have 8-10 similar computers, so swapping parts is fairly easy. NICs unfortuantely are generally built into the board. Depending on your IT budget.. perhaps buy a $20 card. Go into BIOS and disable the onboard NIC and then use the PCI network card you purchased as a test. It would not be a bad thing for your company to have at least 1 spare network card lieing around for just that sort of thing. But before I'd do that... I'd simply swap ports with another computer, seeing if the issue followed the suspect computer or if it is a bad port. Wake on LAN should not be the issue, because it is a passive protocol. Unless something on the network is sending out WOL packets (called magic packets) - I can't see how this would be an issue. I suspect a bad port or a bad NIC. Depending on how your computers are set up and which OS you are running. You might want to apply an image from another computer to this one. Wiping out all the data in the process, but also removing a potentially corrupted OS. In Windows 7 you can image from within Windows. If using Vista, use a free utilty like PING or a 30 day trail of Acronis. If XP, I wouldn't recommend applying an image unless the hardware is identical.

Answer 3

I turn mine off, everyone else in this house leaves theirs on...

While it less damage to the hardware by simply leaving everything on all the time, you will notice it starts to slow down if you don't restart it every once in a while. Restart will help clear things up for you.

More importantly, it's wasted electricity to keep that thing going. I'm not going to be using it while I am asleep, so there really is no need to keep it running (unless I am downloading something). While the hardware may deteriorate faster than simply leaving everything on, it will still become seriously outdated long before that causes problems. Other issues will get in the way first.

Answer 4

When I had a desktop, whether or not I turned it off at the end of the day depended on circumstance. Sometimes I had it run maintenance overnight (like defrag, etc.), sometimes not. Now I have a laptop, and leave it on overnight to run defrag, virus scans, and so on. I use it when I wake up, then turn it off when I leave for my second shift job. I did let it run for 24-72 hours at a time for various reasons after getting it last Christmas, but became concerned about overheating issues, and changed to my current schedule since then. I hope this helps.

Answer 5

Well it depends on how well you want to take care of your PC. I'll explain ...

If you spray compressed air and keep your system clean of dust around the RAM, power supply, CPU, ect. then you can leave it on for weeks at a time and have no worries, but if you just never care about your system, then I recomment turning it off at night or when you're not using it, so it doesn't overheat.

I keep mine clean, sprayed, and dusted, so I leave mine on constantly, only time you'll catch my system turned off, is when I'm restarting for updates, or when there is a bad storm here, I'll shut down until it moves out.

But basicly, it depends on how you look at your computer really if you want to keep it on or not.

Answer 6

Yes, I turn off my entire system at night, and on again after breakfast. I keep my scanner, printer, and speakers turned off unless I need to use them. I put the computer on "Standby" when I'm not using it during the day. Go green, man.

Answer 7

START UP OPTIONS


HIBERNATE IS BEST FOR ME
START UP OPTIONS
BUT I USE ALOT OF OPTIONS
TURNING OF MAKES IT WORK HARDER TO RELOAD
hibernate - shut down -screen saver password
go to start at bottom of screen in blue bar (task bar)
go to control panel
choose power options or performance and maintance options
for mac system preferences > energy saver
choose never to all listed there or the settings you want
choose apply then choose ok
if you want to hibernate
then choose hibernate
click advanced choose hibernate
then click hibernate
click enable hibernate
make sure you click apply and ok to everything
also click advanced tab choose show icon on desk top
then you can push power button
windows will close
push button again and you are where you was again
computer does not have to do all that work again
password protected screen saver is good
i use it my self
do this by
close all windows
right click on open area of desk top
choose properties
choose screen saver
choose password protect on resume
this will be your password as you are the administrator
be sure to set the time for screen saver to come on
or and
press the windows key logo + L at the same time located on the key bord
(hear is what logo picture on keyboard looks like)
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=ush-ans&va=windows+logo&sz=all
this will lock it. when you unlock it will ask for password
this will be your password as you are the administrator
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Answer 8

I turn mines off at night

Answer 9

If everyone tunrned the computers and monitors off at night (at home and in businesses) we would save millions of barrels of oil. Honestly. It all adds up.

Modern computers will not wear out from shutting down and starting up every day.

Answer 10

sometimes i turn off the desktop, but i leave the servers up 24/7/365/1000