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Old 03-30-2009, 11:56 AM   #11
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Default Re: Leaving PCs on Overnight Costs Companies $2.8 Billion a Year
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Cool preciate that info, allways good when I can continue to be lazy.

You can tweak the power saving settings in the control panel.
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Old 03-30-2009, 12:21 PM   #12
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There was a push at my company about 3 months ago to shut off desktops remotely every day after 5:00pm and power them back on at 6:00am. A good policy to save energy. While a single PC isn't really affecting your electric bill, thousands certainly can.
I've been trying to push a similar initiative at my company as we have 600+ desktops here. However, it's gotten a lot of pushback from our developers and editors who remote into their desktops via VPN on a fairly regular basis to do work from home during the evening. It's a battle I'm not going to win. Like you I leave my home PC on constantly, though.
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Old 03-30-2009, 12:38 PM   #13
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I haven't shut down my PC for 3 years - it runs like a top. Let it sleep in powersave mode.

More boogy-man fears from the tree huggers..
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Old 03-30-2009, 02:03 PM   #14
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If you've got a PC, shutting it down allows the bios to reboot and clear any glitches and hiccups that programs often get. If your PC is slow and acting different try a restart. Might solve your problems.[/SIZE]
I don't think the BIOS has much to gleam from a reboot in terms of benefits. But the OS can, if you have installed a lot of software or drivers and ahven't rebooted, it can cause some issues. The only real way to keep you PC running in tip top shape is to uninstall stuff you don't use, use a registry cleaner every so often (ccleaner is a good one) and defrag often.
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Old 03-30-2009, 03:20 PM   #15
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*sigh* yet more rubbish by the global warming, environmental, tree-huggers, save the earth activists.
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Old 03-30-2009, 04:44 PM   #16
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Powering up and down a PC wears on the fans and hard drives. They are designed with constant running in mind.
exactly

Plus I love sleep mode. I only shut down my PC when I'm not going to use it for a long time. and even then I'm not sure if it's necesary
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