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I keep my PC up all the time. Our company IT published a policy to power PC's down over night...unless it needs automatic maintenance or it needs to be backed up. We were never sure when we were suppose to keep it and not. It would be nice if they would let us know when these things are suppose to happen. So mine's up.
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I never shut down my office PC because I have the ability to connect via RDC and work remotely, and I often do.
I also telecommute that way some days, and it would be a real PITA to have to wait for someone to drag themselves into the office to boot up my PC on those mornings.
Grim (aka Toby) MCDBA, MCSD, MCP+SB
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I've a plug board for mostly everything I have ... TV, computer etc.
I don't like any device that eats senseless energy while I don't need it!
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.. but never my computer. That's a quick and simple power saver that does not invoke the penalty of having to start-up my system and load my applications in the morning. Everyone that finds the inconvenience of a nightly shutdown too great, could at least turn off their screen.
Geoff
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Geoff A FitzGerald wrote: That's a quick and simple power saver..
It's not a 'power saver' if you're still leaving a computer sitting on all night doing nothing, it's just a stupid waste of energy.
I guess the planet isn't going to warm itself!
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Remarking (admittedly to excess):
I was thinking of using the same strategy in other facets of life. For example, the inconvenience of flushing (and washing my hands, for that matter) after . . .
On a slightly serious note (if I'm forgiven for the forgoing):
Being an old timer, I like the idea of shutting down completely, clearing pointless riff-raff from memory, along with the flotsam and jetsam. As I recall, memory becomes fragmented, just as does a hard drive. Probably never significant enought to worry about, unless, of course, one allows it to accumulate indeffinitely.
COnsider you "few" watts, times millions of other misguided PC owners. Why when you consider millions of users your talking about millions of watts - entire power plants dedicated to keeping nothing at all happening.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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Monitor off, reboot CPU before leaving. Then any overnight updates (virus) and access to the SQL server are available.
The reboot clears the days junk.
Now at home I turn off the computer to save electric and prevent hacking, not that I have anything besides diskspace to really hack.
djj
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I keep my server on always (not mine, but I'm in control of it) to server web requests. My laptop stays off while my desktop stays on (incase I need in from RDC).
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Damn thing is HOT and uses a *lot* of energy. In fact while I'm on holidays this summer I only turn it on briefly to read email in the morning and again briefly in the evening.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
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What a waste 
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I'm on HOLIDAYS all summer, in the fall I'll be thrashing it to within an inch of it's life once again.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
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I'm more aware of the power my computer uses since I switched to using a laptop. Now I switch it off overnight.
It also helps that Mac OS X boots up pretty quickly.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote: And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
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Paul Watson wrote: It also helps that Mac OS X boots up pretty quickly.
Paul, you've really mastered this subtle Apple promotion haven't you  (the plain english guy should pay attention ). You're right tho... a mate was showing me the MacBook bootup other day, and it was impressive.
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It is second nature now, I don't even mean it as promotion. Just a "Oh yeah, Mac does it this way which makes it really nice and easy" thought.
And there are things Mac OS X isn't great at. Finder for one is pretty crap, even Windows Explorer is better.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote: And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
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Who is using the hibernate or suspend feature? I normally put my computer in standby or hibernate (notebook).
Tosch
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I can't get it to work properly with vista and dont' care enough to find out why, when I attempt to use it the computer just comes out of hibernation immediately after going into it on it's own. My quad core boots so fast that it's just as easy to shut it down anyway.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
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its probably your mouse/keyboard. in device manager make sure in the mouse and keyboard properties the checkbox saying "allow this device to bring the computer out of standby mode" is NOT checked.
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Hmm..well not both though right? I'll try it with the mouse, it's always had a mind of it's own.
Thanks for the suggestion.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
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I use hibernation (on Vista) and it works well.
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker
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I hibernate my laptop, with WinXP, but needed to patch it first as I have 2Gb RAM.
Works well.
Steve Jowett
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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked down upon because he is a fool, is only despised only because he is an 'I.T. Consultant'
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By the time you hibernate the machine, if you have Visual Studio open via source safe.. then it tend to act weird this is true for VSS and Vault
L.W.C. Nirosh.
Colombo,
Sri Lanka.
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I just put my PC into S3 standby mode - it gives you the best of both worlds! Resumes in under 3 seconds and uses barely any power
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dannyres wrote: and uses barely any power
Just like those millions of "barely power consuming" TVs, HiFis, DVD players etc.
Shut if off mate.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote: And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
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As I do shut down my computers more than during weekends/holidays but not every day, a fifth alternative - Most of the times would've been my choice [if available].
rgds /Jonas
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I work from home and have dev boxes, a linux server, a 2k server (glorified pc's really) and my primary workstation that has its own db's running on it not to mention it does its backups, vscans, etc... nightly while I am sleeping so it doesn't bog me down during the work day.
However, all 3 pc's are running off a KVM on one of my monitors, I use 3-19" flat panels on my primary w/s, and I do turn the monitors off every night.
And being a developer working from home, my wife and kids are all computer junkies!
So add 4 more computers to the mix for the family. But they all get shut down when not in use.
So I guess I would fall into the Most of the times category seeing the majority of my pc's get shut down nightly if not longer! 
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