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Shut down 95% of the time.
When I step away from the PC at the end of the day I tend to go to sleep, but I think my subconcious carries on so I wouldn't call it a shut-down, that sounds a bit too final!
Neither - hibernate!
Shutdown all the time.
I used to sleep until one day, when I wake it from sleep it started to lag the audio on videos on youtube etc. Never figured out why, so since then it was full shutdown. Hibernate is totally disabled on my PC now.
Plus with SSD's startup time is <20 secs.
@ik9000 LOL
Well seeing as I'm off to bed when I turn the pc off it's a full shutdown in my case.
Don't see the point in hibernate/sleep when I'm running ssd's, not to mention the 'wasted' space it uses.
Shutdown every time..
Shutdown on Desktop, sleep on Laptop
Sleep mostly, because I like coming back to where I was. I hibernate if I know I'm going to have to remove the power. For reference, my machine is portable-ish (it is around 8L in volume and has a handle) and it's usually hooked up to the TV in the living room but sometimes I prefer to take it upstairs and use it on a monitor (or I've been told to because someone else wants to use the TV ;) )
I only shut it down if I know I'm not going to be using it for a while.
Ugh, I probably shut down/restart my PC 4 or 5 times in a year, it's always doing something. Rendering, mining, updating, downloading, archiving. All stuff I don't want to sit watching it do.
In the past I've tended to hibernate/sleep so I don't forget where I was up to.
I always shut down. I've never been a fan of Sleep mode, as it has caused more problems than it's worth in the passed and I have even removed it as an option from the menu on occasion.
Urgh.
Laptops are all standby.
My main desktop pc lives in a cupboard. Wake on LAN works from standby, but not shutdown, so the answer for me is 99% standby.
But it's currently in a grump and randomly waking without receiving a magic packet, so I'm about to switch back to mostly shutdown...
Sleep, I only turn the computer off if I'm not going to be there overnight.
Desktop? Shutdown, less than thirty seconds between prodding the power button to a working desktop is hardly an inconvenience. Laptop (working from home... and at work come to think about it)? Sleep Monday to Friday, power off at the weekend.
Ryzen 2200G:
Sleep: 2½ W
Idle 20W
Gaming 95W
During Night - switch off the wall plug = 0 Watt
During day: falls a sleep after 20 min.
Save the Planet - build Nuclear !!
On 24/7. Only thing that sleeps is the monitor.
If I shut it down, the sudden silence as the fans cut out can actually wake the wife up.
Also, the dogs know that routine, so when I do that they get all excited because there is movement and they know they're going somewhere and it's so exciting and the tails start wagging because that's so exciting too and the tails bash against the cupboard going BANG BANG BANG BANG and it's even more exciting and then they step aside and bash their wagging tails against the metal-fronted storage heater which is like a gong going CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG and then Daddy tells them, in very animated fashion, to shut the eff up, which is even more excitingerer and the tails go nineteen to the dozen, and if Daddy is really lucky they will bark their enthusiasm... all of which will definitely wake the wife up!!
Depends.
Mostly, during the day (including up to about 2am) I use sleep mode, because normally, I'll be back faily quickly. If i know I won't be, shutdown.
Over night, fairly commonly, still sleep mode. But I do believe in periodically doing a full shut down. It seems (and I'd stress "seems", as it's merely gut feel backing it) to help Windows keep it's knickers unknotted.
Oh, and that's these days. I don't have to go back too far to get to where I'd never trust sleep mode, because Windows always seemed to wake up with a right grump on, getting out of the wrong side of bed, having a bad hair day, and like a supercharged version of me before my first coffee. That is, best avoided. ;)
I let mine sleep but restart it about once a week to clean out the cobwebs.
Haha, neither - my computer's running 24/7.
Shut down
My desktop is set to run World Community Grid when it's idle. Checking its current tasks, it looks like today it's working on finding a cure for cancer.
For my laptops, I usually hibernate them. Sometimes I don't use them for days at a time, so sleep would run down the battery, and it's nice to have whatever I had open still be open the next time. I usually don't run WCG on them, since their fans are smaller and noisier than the pretty-much-unnoticeable fans on my desktop.
Shut down and then power off at the wall every time.
Shut down and off at the wall.
I'm same with all appliances at night, if it doesn't need to be on then it ain't on.
Sleep in the daytime, shut down at night
Any time I don't have a specific overnight task running, I shut down and turn off at the wall. Tower, monitors, USB dock, printer, speakers, everything. The only things that stay on are the router, switch, and NASbox that serves as my (legal) torrent client. It took a bit of work, but I have 18 individually switchable 13 amp sockets over my desk.
Considering my computer takes literally 3 or 4 seconds to get from off to windows login screen, shut down. The old days of keeping it on 'standby' are gone (unless you have a specific purpose).
Well as a guy 10 years into a sleeping disorder, in general sleep i get about 1/3 of what normal people get, even if i spend at least as much time as anyone else in my bed.
I really relax when i long range shoot,,,,, not with a fiddy cal, but something a lot smaller, anyways the issues are the same more or less, and just need 100 M or so to make it really fun.
Also use to relax waving my fly rod in the air, but that one are dusty now.
EDIT: my computer i shut down, always have, screen saver / hibernate ASO i never used, its ON until i turn it off.
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Originally Posted by LSG501
99% Of the time i put it to sleep. Just love when I turn it on and everything is exactly where I left it and that within 2-3 seconds. I only shutdown when Im gone for a couple of days or when windows updates.
Shut down, everything, almost always. Except for the NAS/Server.
Always shut down my gaming rig. Laptop/Tablet only ever sleeps, like my phone.
My HTPC is on 24/7. It's almost silent & around 6000 miles away from me. It's useful to have for recording UK TV and using OneDrive to upload recordings so I can download it and watch content in the US.
Mine is on 24/7, with it only rarely being off - other than the usual restarting after installing updates.
Any time I'm not at the PC, it's always either doing something in the background or just available ready to do something (whether in the background or simply for me to return to it). It can also serve as background noise, rather than things being too quiet.
Any time I do shut it down however, it will be a full shut down rather than sleep, as I'd rather have a proper shut down and boot to avoid any potential oddities by something not playing well with the sleep function.
That's why I have Fast Boot disabled too, as if I tell the PC to shut down I want it to specifically do just that.
The only thing that gets the sleep treatment is the monitors in the power settings, although if I'm not at the PC, I've probably already pressed the buttons to put them in standby, the sleep setting for those are obviously more of a backup in case I haven't.
Shut down, 14-15 second Start-up isn't an inconvenience. Never turn the wall plug off though, mainly to avoid putting the PSU capacitors through a lot of charge cycles and reducing their lifespan.
I think the hibernate option is one of the best options if you don't want to remove your work on the running window.
Tentively trying sleep and suspend. Possibly my first PC without side effects...so far.
But Windows 10 startup (with SSD) is so much faster it probably isn't now needed.
I shut it down multiple times a day, when it only takes maybe 10-20 seconds to start (mostly waiting for post) i dont notice the wait.
Neither
I usually leave it running and switch to power saving mode, sleep, or just shut down and take out the ethernet cable.
Depends. If it's a normal shut down that's fine. If it's an option of "update and shut down" or nothing, I give it both barrels and just build a new PC. It's quicker and easier than sorting out the mess left by updates. (Although they are getting better - they only broke TWO things last update).
I use sleep if I am only leaving the PC for maybe 15 minutes to half an hour, If leaving it for longer, always shutdown.
On in the morning and stays on until I shut it down for the night. Never used hibernate or sleep even when I had hard drives. Only system that sleeps in the house is my QNAP which spins the drives down when it's not in use otherwise it's on 24/7.
I've got a Gen. 4 NVMe, I shut it down every time. Why waste the energy?
Shut down when i sleep, sleep when im away.
shut down at end of day and walk away... this pc is NOT set to go to sleep
My intention is to "make America Hibernate again" ..
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Originally Posted by persimmon
Shutdown...
At work I just locked my PC if it was a desktop. At home my PC is on 24/7.
Ever since I moved to SSDs years ago, I only go with shutdown. The time difference just isnt too major, I dont lose much in the way of time or information with my workflow with programs, and I just prefer it. I also prefer my PC to be on for long periods of time without me using it so I dont use settings like sleep or monitors off after (x) time.
I always shut down now.... I did go through a phase a few years back when I still had a normal hard drive for the OS that I'd put it into sleep mode, just to save time restarting. Since I got an SSD for OS back in 2016, I haven't used it. One other reason why I stopped using sleep mode was because I started getting issues (Win7) relating to it when resuming from sleep mode. As it starts quick enough with an SSD anyway, it's not worth the hassle of risking it again. There is also more risk of data loss or damage if there was a power cut while it was in sleep mode.
Shutdown only when I go to sleep, stays ON during the day.
Only shut down. I (PC) don't like hibernate :) hibernation was switched off with via CMD.
Basically always sleep because I've got so many tabs open
Shutdown.
Took a proper look at it again yesterday. WoL now working correctly from shutdown, so that machine can shutdown when I'm done with it in an evening.Quote:
Originally Posted by naturbo2000
Haven't hooked up to a power meter to see how much it uses compared to off at the wall.
It's a shutdown, never sleep or hibernate. I have a "smart" power extension block so that when the PC powers off so do the speakers, monitor, printer. Then I have it set to power on at 5:30am every morning, ready for the day.
Generally only power it off Sunday through Thursday though. Friday is backup night, so that kicks in at 1:30am, likewise Saturday can be a late night as well.
shut down for me
Sleep - 100% of the time. I hate having to reload all my work, apps etc
On some occasions, some apps wake my PC for no reason but this is usually solved by a bit of investigation work... Biggest culprits Link Windows to (Andriod) Phone and Intels NIC driver.
Shutdown most of the time.
Shutdown, I don't think I've ever use sleep (except by an accident)
Why is this even a question? These days with Windows 10 it's more or less the same. The reason why a pc can boot to Windows in only a few seconds is that it Windows is never shut down nor the pc turned off. All that happens on "Shutdown" is that all applications are terminated and the pc is set to hibernate. Of course you can still shut the system down in the traditional way, but you need to actively do that (by holding the SHIFT key down during shutdown or by disabling fast boot).
Auto: Sleep
Manual: Shut down
Not going to quibble with you regarding the technical differences between how Windows 10 moves to the various power states but it's a question of whether or not you want to start from scratch or come back to where you left off. If you want things frozen in carbonite while you're away, use sleep (hibernate if you will have to unplug the (desktop) computer from the power before wakey time). If you want a clean slate when you come back, shut down. So it's still a valid question from a functional point of view at least.Quote:
Originally Posted by azrael-
Hibernate. All the joys of sleep with all the power saving of shutdown.
Shutdown every time.
It suits my personal hobby of walking around the house turning off lights, that had been left on for unoccupied rooms.
oh don;t get me started. Even in the middle of the day they leave them on. I mean wtf? there's more light coming in through the window. I just don't get it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scuber
Always shut down at the end of the day, sleep if im away for <15mins or the PC is doing something.
Hibernation. Saves so much time (Especially on work PC when outlook/Visual studio take an age to start even on SSD due to disk encryption) and Windows 10 is really good at it.
As most here state with todays hardware and Windows start time is so small that a fresh boot is nothing time wise and as for continuing where you were , saving and bookmarking covers most situations. Years back hibernating or even running 24/7 was advised for important PC's as the main culprit for PC failure was power supplys giving up the ghost due to constant surge when switching off and on. These days apart from being more powerful are much more resilient and reliable , even the budget ones. If I remember correctly most standard supplies back then were about 350 Watts and my main service call outs were inevitably power supply failures. Each to their own but other than a long task going on and leaving the PC for more than about 20 mins I'll turn mine off every time.
Shutdown, unless I'm working on something, in which case hibernate.
Sleep works but: (1) depends on certain Apps which get unstable (2) and how many hours are you planning to continue with work, work make sense for the environment and a possible loss of grid power.
Shutdown and turn screen, speakers and PC off at the plug for me. Saving electricity and electrical safety and all that!
Have to say at 69 years old I'm old fashioned and close it down fully although I do leave it on usually all day.
My laptop gets sleep all the time.
For my desktop, i have to shutdown as theres a bug with something in my PC that'll randomly wake the PC every couple of hours sometimes, and as the PC resuming blasts the GPU fan at 100% for several seconds theres a high chance of it waking me up...
ShutDown 100% - In a work place Sense it just a nightmare with users having sleep function.
Do people ever leave their PCs?
i have just started to use sleep on my 3 home network computers in windows 10, pandemic adaptation has altered my own sleep and wake process so leave a browser or 2 open but sleeping to get back to the places i left off easily when i get up in the middle of the night or whatever.
Full shut down every time for me.
I tend to use "sleep" when im done for the day, but restart or full shut down once a week. Not had any issues so far :D
Neither. My PC is on 24/7. I only turn off my monitors and the keyboard backlight
Shut down ! Takes 8 seconds to desktop.
I work on my PC, and I have maybe 60 windows open at the end of my day, so I just sleep. To reboot takes about 20 seconds, but opening the windows again, and getting to the same place, can easily take 30 minutes.
I leave it running, because this allows updates to happen overnight, not right when I want to use it.
This is one thing worth pointing out if you have Fast boot enabled then shutdown isn't shutdown, it's closer to hibernate and if you want to do a clean boot you need to disable it or restart, not shutdownQuote:
Originally Posted by Output
personally I shutdown my pc, even if I don't have fastboot an ssd is plenty fast, my work laptop will sometime be put to sleep at the end of the day, depends what I'm doing and always shutdown on a friday
shutdown as the computer is waking up itself from sleep
Use the power options to sleep during the day but shutdown at night. I have to say though, the Power Option shutdown is a lottery as usual, and it's the Windows update program that can stop the sleeping. Built a brand new PC with all the latest bits, and with only windows itself installed it failed to shutdown. Spent £1100 on a PC everything worked as it should out of the box, not a thing wrong.......... Just let down by Windows!
Shut down, PC is in the same room I sleep in and although it's pretty quiet, it'd be enough to stop me sleeping properly. Being water cooled I like to give my PC a quick once over before switching it on, as you said in your piece, it only takes a few seconds to boot up...........
Sleep,as shutting down would mean a hospital visit surely??
Always been in the shutdown camp with my desktop PC but have started using the laptop next to it (my second screen/YT screen, running Chrome OS) by just flipping the lid.
Shut down, once had a custom loop spring a leak in the middle of the night. If I hadn't been awake going to the loo right at the time it happened it would have been expensive.
Windows: shut down
Mac: sleep