Should I always leave my computer running?
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I work on a computer every day for 8 hours and leave I never turn it off. I leave it running the whole week including weekends and only reset it sometimes. I don't believe that there is a problem with leaving it running.
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Are you turning the computer OFF or STANDBY?
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turn off the computer
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You can go to Start->Run and type in msconfig and then go to startup and uncheck the stuff that you don't want to start up when you turn on your computer. Be careful what you uncheck.
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turn off your computer
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Depending on how much you "strain" your computer, the RAM will get more and more fragmented thus the performance will get worse.\nIf you don't need your computer running at night time, shut it down! This will save energy and spare the components.\n\nThere is still a common misbelief that turning the computer off and on will lead to a higher power consumption caused by the boot process. Not with todays computers!
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When you are leaving your computer  for a long time turn off it . if leave it for short time put it into standby.hibenate is for situatian you ar in hurry and have many opens program website and ....\nyou put it into hibernate and so all of your in progress work has been save into HDD and every time you turn on your system the are back.\n\nNote: turn on and turn off computer rapidly do must imagine damage to your hardware.
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This is one of those questions where there is no single right answer. In other words, it depends on how you use your computer. \n\nThere are at least three situations that force you to leave your computer on 24 hours a day: \n\nYou are on a network, and the network administrators back up files and/or upgrade software over the network at night. If that is the case, and you want your machine backed up or upgraded, then you need to leave it on all the time. \n\nYou are using your machine as some sort of server. For example, HowStuffWorks has a machine that creates the images for the How Webcams Work article. It needs to be on 24 hours a day. If your machine acts as a file server, print server, Web server, etc., on a LAN (local area network) or the Internet, then you need to leave it on all the time. \n\nIf you are running something like SETI@home and you want to produce as many result sets as possible, you need to leave your machine on all the time. \nIf you do not fall into any of these categories, then you have a choice about whether or not to leave your machine on. \nOne reason why you might want to turn it off is economic. A typical PC consumes something like 300 watts. Let's assume that you use your PC for four hours every day, so the other 20 hours it is on would be wasted energy. If electricity costs 10 cents per kilowatt-hour in your area, then that 20 hours represents 60 cents a day. Sixty cents a day adds up to $219 per year. \n\nIt's possible to use the energy-saving features build into modern machines and cut that figure in half. For example, you can have the monitor and hard disk power down automatically when not in use. You'll still be wasting $100 per year. \n\nThe argument for leaving your computer on all the time is that turning it on and off somehow stresses the computer's components. For example, when the CPU chip is running, it can get quite hot, and when you turn the machine off it cools back down. The expansion and contraction from the heat probably has some effect on the solder joints holding the chip in place, and on the micro-fine details on the chip itself. But here are three ways to look at that: \n\nIf it were a significant problem, then machines would be failing all the time. In fact, hardware is very reliable (software is a whole different story, and there is a lot to be said for rebooting every day). \nI don't know a single person who leaves the TV on 24 hours a day. TVs contain many of the same components that computers do. TVs certainly have no problems being cycled on and off. \nMost vendors will sell you a three-year full-replacement warrantee for about $150. If you are worried about it, spend some of the money you are saving by turning your machine off and buy a service contract. Over three years, you come out way ahead!
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There are two schools of thought on this and you can ask 100 experts and get many varying opinions.  If you use your computer often throughout the day, I'd reccomend leaving it on all the time.  If you only use it for a short while once a day then I'd shut it off.  It is correct that you want to reboot every few days; older operating systems often had problems with programs holding memory even when they were no longer running, but this is much less of a problem on today's systems.  I have four computers, and two run all the time; the others I start up as needed.  Of the two that run all of the time, one has Windows XP Media Edition, so it records TV shows throughout the day.  It and the other one that run all of the time donate their computing power to World Community Grid to help find cures for AIDS and cancer when I'm not using them.
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Nope - turn off the monitor, though, because that consumes a lot more power than the computer itself. Leaving your computer on is actually even better for it, because most failures happen when you turn it off and back on.
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Turn it off first if you care for your laptop..
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When you put your computer in standby, it actually isn't on: it's just in a low power state that can be awaken at the touch of a key. If you want your screen name to be on 24/7, you have to keep your computer, without putting it in standby. To conserve power, you could shut off your monitor.\n\n\nNote: It usually isn't a good idea to keep your computer running 24/7. Computers are like people; they need time to relax and rest!
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it's better to turn on ur computer and keep it on as long as possible. i was not talking about u must keep ur computer working verytime even when u dont use the computer. the computer will have longer lifetime if you dont shutdown ur computer regularly, because the hard drive will have to work from the beginning eachtime you turn on the computer, it has to read from the first sector, it causes to the sooner damage of ur hard drive. but when you dont use the computer in one night, you can set the computer in hibernate mode or standby mode. by doing this, you still keep very data in ur computer safe and no hamrs to your computer. sometimes, it the computer slows down, try to restart it and after restarting, it will work faster. remember to go to the power management in control panel, set up the monitor should be turned off after 5-10 minutes in order to protect your monitors from dead pixel and make it have longer lifetime
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Pretty much a catch 22 question.  The answer really relies on how much use during the day when it's left on.  Turning the computer on and off numerous times throughout the day will wear on certain parts of the computer while leaving it on constantly will wear on other parts of the computer.  If the computer is used constantly throughout the day I would leave it on and ensure that it is properly cooled.  If it may only be turned on once or twice a day I would shut it off.  Hope this helps.
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It should not be that much to run your computer. The main power users in a home are: 1. Refrigerator \n                                              2.Washer and dryer\n                                              3. Electric heaters \n                                              4. Electric ranges\n                                              5. Freezers\n                                              6. Air conditioners\n                                              7. Dish washers\nAnything with a heating or cooling element will be a big factor in you electric bill. Things like lights and computers do not use much energy so if you leave it on overnight, do not fret about it for that reason alone.
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U can leave it on as much as u want, but...\n1. be sure that u have installed some temperature monitoring program or u need to check BIOS for setings bout that.\n2. Remember that your CPU cant last forewer (heat damages him over time). Transistors broking over time and at some point your CPU will be out of order. For Intel its 15%, and AMD about 30% of overall number of transistors, i think.
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shut down and return?\nOr leave your computer on and return? It could be a whole host of problems. Thats not enough information to really go on.