How often to you shut down your system?
 

After reading Odie's thread: what's the first thing you do when you wake up, more than a few said, "turn on my computer".

There are two schools of thought about this. I was tough that if you have a back up blower there is no need, and should not do a daily shut down. I only do it 3 times a week to clean up.
How about you?

hmmm .... last shutdown .... whats a shutdown? :winkwink:

i am using 2 windows xp machines and they are running for 4 weeks or more now ... without a shutdown. :thumbsup

I only do sheduled shutdowns on my laptops: I run Linux. :moon

I shut down all the boxes on my network that aren't... um .... doing stuff when I finish for the day, no point in leaving them on I reckon.

I only ever shutdown when absolutely necesary like when doing hardware work on the system. It is extremely hard on power supplies and capacitors when you start a computer. If I need to get a fresh boot I just nail the reset button with my pinkie. It's a nice soft warm reboot. Most systems actualy intermittently kill the 12 volt to reset. This doesn't. Gotta love a properly configure bios :)

I shutdown just before going to bed.

never, turn my monitors off, the boxes never

Same here. Restarting the machine is a waste of time IMHO. I save an extra 30 seconds, plus I have everything opened that I was working on previously!

When you have a bad short term memory like mine, you need to see what you were working on last, or you'l never work on it again!

5:43AM up 190 days, 5:56, 1 user, load averages: 0.19, 0.19, 0.17


Oh wait, were talking about Windows, right? Then every few days or so.

I never turn off my pc unless Im changing/adding harware.. other then that it only gets rebooted once in awhile. Only my monitor goes off when I go to bed

It depends if you're in an office or are a single webmaster.
I have my PC almost next to my bed, so it's obvious that I shut it down every evening / night. :2 cents:

I only shut down when I have to and it has nothing to do with what I think is best for the computer. I'm just lazy and I enjoy waking up and having all the programs I need open ready and waiting for me to do something.

I leave mine on all the time, unless I'm going away for a few weeks.

It's rebooted when needed.

ive got that extra special windows app that shuts the system down AUTO FUCKING MATICALLY once a day

almost never...
restart every 2-3 days

Only if i'm on holidays :glugglug

maybe once a week...and usually only because i have to

Same here, I leave it on all day, then shut down at night.

You guys need to reread your insurance policies and leases (if you have those too)... You might wake up to a fire and a nasty surprise. :glugglug

I expected the above responces. I have an uncle who runs a large part of a major New York bank's central system (24-7-365), but swears that he shuts down his own home CPU -connected to the bank nightly to keep the mem/temp fresh.
Yet my older brother, a chemical engineer with a wicked ass system states what a lot of you have said, keep the sucker on unless you need to turn it off for maintenance.
I guess it depends on the size of the project and the trust held on individual equipment.
Too each his own.

just on sunday, rest day for every one

I never shut down.. why?

I shut down everynight, something fails on one of the systems. Who wants to wake up to a burned up computer.

every few days usually.

I shutdown daily..If per chance a hack gets through ,my box is off..also its less wear and tear on my box.True the power supplies work a little harder but they are only 200 bucks anyways

I shut down once a month.

I shut down each day.

It's ALWAYS off...

I have started to do it once a week now, but the last year the poor box has been left on 24/7 barring power failure's.

my computer is on almost 3 weeks straight + at a time. the only time i restart is when it starts to lag a little bit. once i grab some more ram i wont need restarts for months :eatmouse

usually dont completely shut down for at least a month. Just goes on auto standby.

Not good to do a complete shutdown... for all of you that do. Just be sure you are behind a firewall.

never. ill use it till i get the blue screen of death then reboot

Once a week.

one of my pc's i've had for over 4 years and i shut it down everyday.....no probs

never. I just restart when I need to :winkwink:

on sundays..and the lord rests

[04:48pm] <nofx> WindowsXP [uptime] 1day 19hrs 9mins 35secs [record uptime] 1wk 5days 20mins 20secs on Feb 20 2003

I put it on standby at night.

I don't. Running windows 2003 server. Uptime like 3 months so far.

wow, you must be some sort of an elite h4x0r

You mean you can turn them off????:eek7


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The hum of the computer comforts me :)

incredible thread.