Are you supposed to? I used to, then someone told me that you shouldn't, that they are meant to run all the time. I've been leaving it on all the time lately... what are you supposed to do?? :confused:

I don't, but it does get shut down at least once a week.

Cheryl
www.itsybitsybunz.com

We leave ours on. My husband says it just depends on what matters more to each person. Turing a computer off and on frequently can shorten the life of the machine but leaving it on all the time means higher electricity bills. As long as you aren't turning it off and on two or three times a day it really shouldn't make a difference.

Jenn

he says they should be left on all the time.... Ours has been on for probably at least 4 years....no kidding.

We turn ours off at night... I have heard you are to keep them on but I'm a bit too OCD for that! LOL!
Besides we get a new computer at least once every 3 years if not sooner.

Warning LONG STORY!

I used to do tech support for University of Michigan and we sent out emails telling everyone to leave their computers on at all times except to reboot occasionally. We do updates overnight so this is very important.

Well, some total envirnment guy freaked out and basically told us that we are destroying the world by doing this. So someone did a study....

In the college we had several thousand computers. The two options were:
1. powersave the monitors at night and spin down the hard drives or
2. powering off the computers

Option 1 only cost the University an extra few thousand dollars A YEAR.

A computer running overnight on minimal power (ie monitor powersaved and disks powersaved) runs on very minimal electricity.

So, go to your control panel and set your powersave options and don't worry about turning it off at night :D