Leave Computer On or Shut Off?
I get this question all the time, and apparently so does the Yahoo Tech Guy.
He does a pretty good job of explaining it here.
I agree with him on the hibernate. Half the time it doesn’t work right, and at that point why not just reboot anyway.
Standby works ok if you won’t be gone long, otherwise shut it off.
I recommend a reboot once per day anyway to make up for Window’s sometimes shoddy housekeeping, but don’t be turning it on and off multiple times in a day.
June 23rd, 2007 at 3:39 pm
I shutdown my compaq laptop about once a week, and my compaq presario desktop about once a month, or as updates require.
I never use hibernate, but I have my system go into standby, and my disks/monitor go off after 30 minutes (more agressive for my laptop, when not plugged in).
(I also cleanup/defrag almost every day)