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Leave PC on all day, let go in sleep mode or shut

Post Date: 2020-06-15
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Poll Question: Do you leave your PC on all day, let it go sleep or shut it down?
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10 [52.63%]
5 [26.32%]
4 [21.05%]

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    Posted: 15 Jun 2020 at 7:13am
Just getting people's opinion on the above. I have a new custom built PC almost on the way... My old PC I would let go into sleep mode.

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No sleep mode, ever. No Hibernate, either. Either shut it off or leave it running (I'm 50-50 either way. Probably leave a bit more to off, than running but it depends on the day and the task.)

Sleep and/or Hibernate cause more problems than the issues they were invented to prevent.
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All of my prior desktop PC, I left running continuously unless I was going to be gone for more than a day, or it had a problem that could best be solved by a reboot. The hibernate mode was problematic. However the hibernate (sleep) mode works fine now.
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Posts: 175 		  Quote smfcpa Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 15 Jun 2020 at 4:00pm
Right now the turn off after every use has 70% of the replies. I am surprised, because the off on cycle is probably harder on components than just leaving it on all of the time. How often does a light blub blow other than when you turn it on?
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Posts: 13000 		  Quote Tidgxor Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 15 Jun 2020 at 4:06pm
I believe I explained this more in-depth in a post on this topic the last time this came up, but I haven't personally had any issues with Sleep for a long time. Hibernation never worked well for me and so I avoided that, but Sleep hasn't been an issue for me since at least Windows 8, maybe 7, but I'm not entirely sure. All that said, I'm still generally "shut it off" or "go sleep sleeps" when it's not going to be used for ~2+ hours, especially since the rise of SSDs.


Edited by Tidgxor - 15 Jun 2020 at 4:35pm
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I am the sole vote for leaving on. I used to turn it off every night but lately it was taking some work to turn it on so I decided to leave it on and I guess I had read Tidgxor's write up about leaving on if getting in years so... Mine is close to 6. No issues at all. Always concerned it will sprout a leak!
That said, I will turn off if I'm going to be away for more than a day.

Haven't used sleep in a long time. Just let the monitors go to sleep.
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How many programs do you have running at startup?
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Posts: 175 		  Quote smfcpa Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 15 Jun 2020 at 6:10pm
I try to remember to shut down all programs but sometimes I have Outlook and Edge running.


Edited by smfcpa - 15 Jun 2020 at 6:12pm
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Originally posted by John18

How many programs do you have running at startup?

Five. That's bonafide programs, of course there are far more Services than that but even then I've pruned those pretty heftily.
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Posts: 7331 		  Quote Cretae Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 16 Jun 2020 at 6:00am
I've been always on for over 10 years. My original DS went 8 1/2 years without a single failure, and it never slept. 2 1/2 years on this one, but I may let it sleep and see what happens, per Tidgxor.
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