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On a desktop, where you don't have a battery option, something called hybrid sleep takes care of the threat of losing your work when in sleep mode. I never go INTO sleep mode. Thus that variable is removed from the equation. But whatever, dude. As usual, you know everything about everything. Even more than what I was taught when I became a Microsoft Certified System Engineer. And another one goes on ignore.
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And another one...... Close your programs, turn off the monitor, and walk away. Nothing is running.
Memory leak? It's 2019, now Windows 95.
Just so I know you know, and I DO know, explain to me what YOU think a memory leak is. I don't think you do, and you have it on your list of buzz words with defrag and update drivers.
As far as energy, seriously? You don't have enough money that you worry about an extra 878 cents of electricity over a month that you'd rather be starting your computer every day? (Which, FYI takes more power than letting it run?) Your computer has fans to prevent overheating, and those little fans are all that draws power when you are not actively using your computer and drawing on the CPU to process data. I won't even get into the idiocy of screen savers now that we have LCD and LED monitors. Just turn the monitor power off and walk away. I have been leaving my computers on since I had computers. Never seen a drastic spike in my electric bill, and never had a heat issue. Certainly not a "memory leak" issue.
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Letting a Windows computer run 24/7 isn’t a good idea either. Not only does it use energy needlessly as Videotrack just mentioned, but Windows has a tendency to run out of what it calls resources. If you only ran one program on that computer, then that’s fine, but normal users multitask. All is takes is one program with a memory leak and you’re running on a time bomb. I can cite one program that you all know that used to do that. I think letting anything run all the time that consumes electricity is not a good idea because of the fire risk involved. Heck I even switch off the tv amplifier now in loft that is wired into plug in bedroom, doesn't use much electricity but my motto is Electricity=fire risk. And the above is bourne from experience of having an electric shower catch fire in house, even when it was wired with the protection of an RCD unit. The only thing in the house now that works at night time is the alarm clock radio and fridge freezer. Awww another thing that gets me is when young people leave their laptop running on top of their bed, and walk away and leave it.
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The only thing in the house now that works at night time is the alarm clock radio and fridge freezer.
............. Actually anything that you can start with a remote control is on 24/7/365. Other wise you would have to get up and turn it on prior to using the remote.
Back in my day the only time we started panic buying was when the bartender shouted "last call"!
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The only thing in the house now that works at night time is the alarm clock radio and fridge freezer.
............. Actually anything that you can start with a remote control is on 24/7/365. Other wise you would have to get up and turn it on prior to using the remote. Yep you are right Mario, but its not a big deal to switch things on at electric wall socket and not leaving appliances like tv's on standby.
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But whatever, dude. As usual, you know everything about everything. Even more than what I was taught when I became a Microsoft Certified System Engineer.
And another one goes on ignore. My post was largely a copy and paste from PC magazine so I'm sorry they know more than you were taught as a Microsoft Certified Engineer. That is probably because Windows 10 wasn't out back then. If you do a little Googling instead of getting your nose out of joint you will see I'm right.
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No issues here not using sleep and leaving my main PC run 24/7 for many years now. I only have the screens turn off after 10 minutes. Everything else stays running and NEVER an issue on that. No issues with memory leaks when your apps are off. I simply leave the machine on all the time so that it's available when I want it.  I just have a scheduled task on the PC that kicks in every night to turn off the network connection and it turns back on in the morning. I keep the network on during the day so that I can use my laptop or phone to remote in to it when needed. P.S. - The power savings argument doesn't work either. My UPS tracks power usage and the PC uses little power when the system is idle.
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