Whats the best way to leave your PC?

just a noob · 04-08-2008, 11:06 PM

i cant really say one way or another, but here at our house (we turn our computer off every night) that we got almost 4 years ago and its running fine (its a p4 3.0ghz and 512mb of ddr ram lol)

higa · 04-08-2008, 11:55 PM

Doesn't matter ...............!!!!

eggyhustles · 04-09-2008, 12:12 AM

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Originally Posted by just a noob

i cant really say one way or another, but here at our house (we turn our computer off every night) that we got almost 4 years ago and its running fine (its a p4 3.0ghz and 512mb of ddr ram lol)

I never turned my old pc off..only restarted it about once a week...pc still runs too...old compaq presario with a p3 @847mhz and 348mb of ram..

royalmarine · 04-09-2008, 01:25 AM

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Originally Posted by wellhellothere

So performance isnt affected by never turning off?

correct. the only thing that will slow a computer down is spyware, virus, and misuse by means of porn, un-safe websites with adaware spyware etc.
it will eventually bog your system down.

ive a server running for 5 years. doesnt have internet access apart from 4 ports to alert police/e-mail me as its used to control my security camera's and house alarm.
never heard the computer make a noise or anything. i replaced the mouse maybe 2 years ago as i had an old trackball. thats it!

voyagerfan99 · 04-09-2008, 01:29 AM

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Originally Posted by royalmarine

correct. the only thing that will slow a computer down is spyware, virus, and misuse by means of porn, un-safe websites with adaware spyware etc.
it will eventually bog your system down.

ive a server running for 5 years. doesnt have internet access apart from 4 ports to alert police/e-mail me as its used to control my security camera's and house alarm.
never heard the computer make a noise or anything. i replaced the mouse maybe 2 years ago as i had an old trackball. thats it!

But if your using windows, it can bog down your memory, so a system reboot is good every once and a while so it can clear the cache and RAM.

henery008 · 04-10-2008, 01:36 PM

I do turn of my pc always coz I believe it is the one of the best way to keep your pc life long and safe

wellhellothere · 04-10-2008, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by royalmarine

correct. the only thing that will slow a computer down is spyware, virus, and misuse by means of porn, un-safe websites with adaware spyware etc.
it will eventually bog your system down.

Im buggered then!

Kilauea · 04-10-2008, 03:44 PM

The 2 computers I've had have always been turned off every night about 98% of the time. I leave them off all day, turn them on when I get home between 4 and 7 and shut them when I sleep between 10-12. First one is now a little older than 10 years old and can still run no problem, although its quite slow(P2 266). And my current one which is not a little more than 5 years old does the same. The difference is that the 1st one was used more(as I was younger and had more time). Not a single part has ever broken down on me, even the HD of the 1st one, I use it in my current one... The only thing being crap is my current computer, it came with a crap cd-rom drive, well I can't say it got worst, I think its actually working better for the past year ? And it was also bugged from the 1st week I got it, it would restart randomly(between 3-20 times a day mostly after being opened, but NEVER when gaming)... It was like that for about 3-4 years and now somehow, it only restarts on its own once every 2-4 months.

I guess we can say it won't make your computer worst if you turn it off, based on my experience of course.

TFT · 04-10-2008, 04:29 PM

If you are paranoid like me and clear all history, temp files etc every night then a restart or shutdown is the only way. Your index.dat files will grow into many MB's and are only flushed and re-created on a reboot, at least Ccleaner needs a reboot to delete these files.
Therefore I shut down every night

Kornowski · 04-10-2008, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by TFT

If you are paranoid like me and clear all history, temp files etc every night then a restart or shutdown is the only way. Your index.dat files will grow into many MB's and are only flushed and re-created on a reboot, at least Ccleaner needs a reboot to delete these files.
Therefore I shut down every night

Exactly what I do! EXACTLY!

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just a noob Diamond Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: cardboard mansion Posts: 1,609	i cant really say one way or another, but here at our house (we turn our computer off every night) that we got almost 4 years ago and its running fine (its a p4 3.0ghz and 512mb of ddr ram lol) __________________ FUGGER/K\|ngp\|n '08

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04-10-2008, 03:44 PM	#28 (permalink)
Kilauea Gold Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Canada Age: 24 Posts: 446	The 2 computers I've had have always been turned off every night about 98% of the time. I leave them off all day, turn them on when I get home between 4 and 7 and shut them when I sleep between 10-12. First one is now a little older than 10 years old and can still run no problem, although its quite slow(P2 266). And my current one which is not a little more than 5 years old does the same. The difference is that the 1st one was used more(as I was younger and had more time). Not a single part has ever broken down on me, even the HD of the 1st one, I use it in my current one... The only thing being crap is my current computer, it came with a crap cd-rom drive, well I can't say it got worst, I think its actually working better for the past year ? And it was also bugged from the 1st week I got it, it would restart randomly(between 3-20 times a day mostly after being opened, but NEVER when gaming)... It was like that for about 3-4 years and now somehow, it only restarts on its own once every 2-4 months. I guess we can say it won't make your computer worst if you turn it off, based on my experience of course. __________________ 5½ years old rig ? P4 1.7Ghz MSI MS-6547E 768mb RAM ATI Radeon 7200 40Gb Seagate HDD w/ Xp 7Gb Maxtor HDD w/ Linux TigerPlus 300 Watt PSU (never heard of such company) Broken LG CD-rom drive that seems to work sometimes

04-10-2008, 04:29 PM	#29 (permalink)
TFT Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Yorkshire, UK Posts: 2,082	If you are paranoid like me and clear all history, temp files etc every night then a restart or shutdown is the only way. Your index.dat files will grow into many MB's and are only flushed and re-created on a reboot, at least Ccleaner needs a reboot to delete these files. Therefore I shut down every night __________________ Operator: Dave Operating System: XP Professional SP2 Processor: Intel E6750 Core Duo@3.20GHz Graphics: Nvidia 8500GT C: Drive 500GB D: Drive 250GB Memory: 2GB

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