Will you shut down your computer when you have to leave for just a while?
By lzjilbb
@lzjilbb (425)
China
June 12, 2007 11:32am CST
Have you ever met with such situation that when you are using your computer, something just happen and you have to leave for half or one hour before you can come back to use your computer again?
In that case, will you save all your work and shut down your computer and then turn it on again when you come back?
As is said that to shut down and turn on too often is harmful to the machine, is that true? I always leave my computer on in this case and always asign it some "work" to do like downloading or scanning for virus.
What do you do when you have to leave for just half an hour and will come back to keep using your computer? Why?
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5 responses
@youless (112561)
• Guangzhou, China
18 Jun 07
Usually I will just keep it on. It won't save much electricity if I turn it off.
@mymytri (2030)
• India
13 Jun 07
yeah.i will take break when i work on my computer every 2-3 hours.so i will hibernate my PC and i have done this so many times.some times if i have any downloads i will do as you so just start downloading and take rest. i restart my system atleast 30 days once .
@fly_shay (333)
• Philippines
16 Jun 07
yap it's true that turning on and off the computer a lot of times is harmful.If I'm only inside the house and pause for a while of what I'm doing, then I won't turn it off. But if I'll go outside or somewhere else, then i really have to shut it down
