You'll get as many opinions on this as there are users. Back when I was using desktop machines, I'd shut them down if I anticipated no further usage for the next four hours. Now that I use a laptop exclusively, I just let it go into standby, which uses very little power. What helps with this is that XP doesn't need to be rebooted frequently.
Gary VanderMolen
----- Original Message ----- I am running XP-Pro w/ auto-update enabled on an Intel WN845 MB.
After years of dutifully turning off my computer after each use about a year ago I started leaving it on all the time. My recollection is that I heard or read that stopping and restarting the mechanical devices was harder on them than leaving them running.
I recently purchased a battery backup and the manufacturer encourages use of the hibernation feature in Windows. I tried it out and found it turns off the drives and forces a restart when "coming out". This leads me back to the turn off or not question.
I would be grateful for any thoughts List member might have.
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