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Subject: Re: off-topic How many leave their computers running constantly?

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 12:10:38 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've heard to turn it on and off causes more wear on the moving parts.  However,
I don't think that even turning it on and off a few times a day will ever really
have an observable affect on anything. (Rebooting causes some of the stuff to
reinitialize, but it doesn't do nearly as much as physically turning the power
off and on.)

I leave my computer running all the time.  It only gets turned off when I'm
installing new hardware. :)



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