Power On or OFF @ nite ?

[Ohiogirl81]

Originally Posted by SunnyKayak

It works great on cats too

BWAH! That's one way to chase them into the basement for the night!

Get one with french doors...after about 20 secs, IT starts yelling at you.

Thanks for the warning. I don't want my refrigerator ... or my car ... or anything else that isn't human ... talking to me!!

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by AksarbeN

Ok,,,, it’s the end of the day and you’re going to bed what do you do with the PC? You know you’ll be using it first thing in the morning however should you turn off the power to the pc and monitor or leave it on? My monitor goes to sleep after an hour or so, but the pc is always ON. What do you do?

Both. I tend to keep my main desktop box and two main fileservers on all the time, but the secondary desktops can be either turned on 24x7 or off at night depending on what I'm doing at the time. My wife's box is on all the time.

[PNW-type-gal]

I shut the computer down and then unplug the power strip all the "wall warts" and chargers are plugged in to - it's pointless to allow that phantom load.

[mrdude]

i always leave my pc on and turn off the monitor

[jkmeca11]

Originally Posted by mrdude

i always leave my pc on and turn off the monitor

same here, takes too long to start-up in the morning for a quick e-mail check. Power is cheap where I am at so it doesn't hurt the wallet.

[mrdude]

Originally Posted by jkmeca11

same here, takes too long to start-up in the morning for a quick e-mail check. Power is cheap where I am at so it doesn't hurt the wallet.

good point. i leave my pc on because i mostly just use it as a server for my laptop

also, i have heard that constantly shutting down your PC will shorten the life of your hard drive.

[VillageLife]

I turn all of my laptops off. I feel safer,what if it damages while you walk with it.

[WO Town Kid]

PC on, monitor off, everything signed in.

Quick and easy access.

[Saintess]

At home, I leave my MacMini and Macbook on, because after 3 hours, it goes on standby and goes to sleep. Only thing I really turn off is the monitor.

And, at work, I have a PC, and I leave that on as well, and the monitor shuts off after an hour of inactivity.

[Brian.Pearson]

Originally Posted by WO Town Kid

PC on, monitor off, everything signed in.

Quick and easy access.

Same here! I feel like I'm wasting electrons, otherwise...