When I'm away from my computer, it is usually:

Hi Alex ...

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Very good advice this, speaking as a electrician for 40 years. You just cannot trust power supplies, cables and the rest. My PC is shut down and off.

 

If it's likely to be four hours or more, I shut it down. For extended periods (like we're away in the motorhome) everything gets unplugged except the modem that also works the land-line phone.

 

Sleep vs hibernation. Sleep stores the system into memory (the RAM). Hibernation stores the system into a file on the hard disk. I have always trusted hibernation on laptop over desktop computers.

Hibernation takes as long as a cold startup, but all your programs are still open where you left them.

Sleep saves the system as it is, but (as far as I know) you can outstrip the memory by having too much (too many programs) open, the system might then "crash ".

I use the Sleep function on my desktop computer. I often use Hibernate on laptops if I want to save my current programs.

All systems need to be restarted occasionally or they will begin to have problems. For example, Windows Updates MOST often require a restart, as do new software installations. A restart will allow any changes to be made.

Running 24/7, not necessary in my opinion. (I am starting to worry about environmental concerns.)

Sleep...a low power state.

Hibernation...reloads the system from a file on the hard disk, but therefore does not "refresh" in the same way it would from a cold startup or restart.

I would prefer to shut-down every day if I could.

Matt

 

I've never timed the two, but I can tell you that waking my laptop from hibernation takes a LOT less time than a cold boot.

 

All of mine are on 24/7. I run SETI (over 1 mil points!). Besides, I have one that runs great, but doesn't like to boot all the time......