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| Thread ID: 108986 | 2010-04-19 09:23:00 | How many times a day do you reboot your computer? | Ice Road Trucker (15659) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 878029 | 2010-04-19 09:23:00 | I reboot only when the computer crashes itself. :badpc: | Ice Road Trucker (15659) | ||
| 878030 | 2010-04-19 09:25:00 | Twice a day. Turn on at 6am turn off when I go to work around 7.15am. Gone all day turn on just after 5pm turn off when I go to bed. Don't leave it on when I'm not home no point all it does then is use a bit of power | gary67 (56) | ||
| 878031 | 2010-04-19 09:35:00 | School days: sometimes goes on in the morning before school, then gets shut down before I leave. Always started when I get home from school. Weekends: Turned on in the morning and left on for most of the morning/day, then switched off overnight. I don't bother rebooting for updates as a shutdown counts. My netbook is turned on when I need it, then put in standby when I don't, and shut down at the end of the day. |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 878032 | 2010-04-19 09:57:00 | When it needs rebooting. Other than that, it stays on from 8-9 in the morning till 12 - 2 am the next morning sometimes. Then I turn it off. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 878033 | 2010-04-19 10:07:00 | I turn it off if I'm going out for the day, and I also turn it off each night before I go to bed (unless I'm running a full AV scan as that can take hours and doesn't like me doing other things at the same time). Only other time would be if a programme asked me to restart it after an update. My father leaves his on 24/7 - he says that is better for the computer than what I do. I've never asked a professional if he is right though - so if anyone in this forum has thoughts about that I'd be interested to hear them. | catspyjamas (15614) | ||
| 878034 | 2010-04-19 10:24:00 | My experience is that the ones that stay on all the time generally last longer than the on/off ones. Of course it depends on the operating environment and a lot of other factors, but I suspect that the thermal expansion & contraction of all those soldered joints twice a day will take their toll over time. Constant temp = happy components. :) |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 878035 | 2010-04-19 10:25:00 | My work PC gets rebooted every couple of weeks or so - basically whenever required by Windows Update. It's on standby overnight, starting a few hours after I leave work, as there's a background backup job running an hour or so after I usually leave. Last time it actually crashed? - dunno, but definitely last year sometime. |
MushHead (10626) | ||
| 878036 | 2010-04-19 10:30:00 | Once usually when it gets turned off. Sometimes I turn it off before that but then there's always some reason I need it and have to turn it back on so mostly it's on all day. | pctek (84) | ||
| 878037 | 2010-04-19 10:33:00 | My experience is that the ones that stay on all the time generally last longer than the on/off ones. Of course it depends on the operating environment and a lot of other factors, but I suspect that the thermal expansion & contraction of all those soldered joints twice a day will take their toll over time. Constant temp = happy components. :) Thank-you fred_fish :) Hmm. I might have to change what I'm doing then. I thought it would wear the parts out more quickly being on all the time, but what you say makes good sense. It's a laptop kept on a wooden desk - it wouldn't overheat being on all the time? Would going into sleep mode when not in use keep it warm (enough)? |
catspyjamas (15614) | ||
| 878038 | 2010-04-19 10:36:00 | Mines been up for just over 18 days. Only turn it off if going away in the weekend. | plod (107) | ||
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