Author: Pete Galati
Date: 10:30:32 01/25/00
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On January 25, 2000 at 13:13:05, John Warfield wrote: > >just curious, do most people leave their computers running 24 hours a day, or do >most shut it off?. I shut mine down every night , but I hear it is better to >keep it running I used to turn it off at the end of the day when I started using Windows 95, when I used to use WFW I'd just leave it running in Dos, but since the last time I posted anything on the subject here, I 've gone back to just leaving it running all of the time. My latest version of the Netscape browser is less stable than the last version so I've ended up restarting my computer allot as it is. My opinion is that sometimes it helps your computer to restart it even if you leave it running all the time because it sort of flushes out the memory a bit. I've heard arguments on both sides of the story as to whether you should leave them running or not, it's probably a take a pick type of thing, I doubt if you actually save much energy by turning modern computers off because of the "Energy Star" stuff because it mostly shuts most of your computer & monitor down for you. Pete
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