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| Thread ID: 114264 | 2010-11-25 02:57:00 | To Sleep, perchance to dream ? | Woody (710) | Press F1 |
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| 1156295 | 2010-11-25 02:57:00 | What are the pro's & cons of Shutting down the PC at completion of the day as opposed to letting it simply time the sleep function out and sleep till next day. Not important just curious. thanks |
Woody (710) | ||
| 1156296 | 2010-11-25 03:00:00 | Nothing I shut these down every day | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1156297 | 2010-11-25 03:09:00 | In the past computers needed a proper restart every so often to remain stable - the fault of the OS. With WIN 7 this no longer seems to be the case and it can run for days / weeks and remain stable. Going in to sleep mode may use a little more power but it lets you start up very quickly and resume any tasks you left running, also most devices fail during power up/down cycles so sleep may actually prolong your pc's life ( not significantly IMO ). Shutting down on the other hand reduces power consumption to almost 0, is probably more secure from unautorised access and causes windows to reinitialise on startup. No real advantage to it unless your PC gets unstable over time. I shut mine down every night,not actually sure why except habit or maybe to prevent them occasionally starting themselves up when something moves the mouse. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1156298 | 2010-11-25 03:12:00 | My desktop gets shut down every night, but not the laptop, it's common for that to be running for up to two weeks without a restart, win7 is much more stable like that than XP or vista. In the end it probably comes down to a power consumption vs startup speed thing I guess. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 1156299 | 2010-11-25 03:16:00 | Never had a prob with XP or Vista. I can leave either on. Both are stable as | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1156300 | 2010-11-25 03:19:00 | 98 on the other hand could run 3 days or so before an almost certain crash and millenium well... lets not go there | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1156301 | 2010-11-25 03:19:00 | True, I often saw issues (not on my own PCs, more other people's) with network/wireless misbehaving after resuming from sleep or hibernate in both Xp and vista, Vista was much better after Sp2 though. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 1156302 | 2010-11-25 03:23:00 | Or you could go for the best of both worls and Hibernate it. I shut down my W7 x64 once a week, it ususally just sleeps though so by the time I turn the monitor on its at the logon screen :) |
WarNox (8772) | ||
| 1156303 | 2010-11-25 03:33:00 | I shut down my Vista desktop and my XP netbook at the end of each day if they're turned on, and put them to sleep if I won't use them for a while. If the desktop is doing something (video conversion, download etc.), then it stays on overnight. and millenium well... lets not go there 3 minutes :lol: |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1156304 | 2010-11-25 03:41:00 | I shut down all 4 desktops here at home every night other wise it starts to chew through the power a bit, we are trying to reduce the bill. So far have got it down to between 15-20 units a day with us both at home and teenager mostly at home on study leave | gary67 (56) | ||
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