How often do you boot Windows?

How often do you boot Windows

  • Multiple times per day

    Votes: 8 8.2%

  • Daily

    Votes: 35 35.7%

  • Weekly

    Votes: 5 5.1%

  • Only when forced (e.g. hardware installation, Windows update)

    Votes: 50 51.0%

  • Never (not even hardly ever?)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    98
  • Poll closed .
It really depends, if I'm seeding, it stays on, if not, then the pc gets shutdown at night. Sometimes, it stays on for weeks, other times, it gets turned on (and off) daily.

Edit: I turn mine off due to heat being generated, not power usage...Even in the dead of winter, I don't heat my office, my pc does that job for me....hehehe
 
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Honestly, mine's been weeks between reboots. It hasn't been shut off in months, however. Well, at least the last power failure.
 
I shut down when I'm not going to be using it for at least a couple hours. I realize we're talking fractions of a penny in electricity but it feels irresponsible.
 
Mine gets rebooted about once a month. It stays in hibernate when it is not in use.
 
Daily, since I'm not leaving my own machine idle and heating the room for 16 hours out of the day when it takes under 20 seconds to boot. Work laptop is also booted up daily but for different reasons though my previous work machine (desktop) did stay on 24/7 using the company juice and a lot more space to expel heat. However I had to do some Adobe Pro authoring stuff on that machine so I got stuck with Adobe's incompetent update reboots every few months.
 
I reboot mine once a week. When not in use it's in S3 sleep mode.
 
Daily.

I shutdown at night or when I am going to be away from home for something like 8 hours or more.
 
I used to get an erect epeen when system up time was being counted in months rather than hours but that has since changed. I'd rather save the electricity and shut down every day. Now the erect epeen happens when I get a $45 electric bill.
 
Usually, it's on for weeks at a time before a reboot. Mostly because of F@H. However, I am going to take a break from that for power bill reasons. Sucks, but it's necessary. Going to have it sleep after 15 minutes of non-use. It's quick to wake up, so I'm not worried.
 
I only run it when I'm at home using it or intend to use it; it gets shut down at night.

I ran my PC 24/7 some time ago when Team Fortress 2 had unlimited item drops; Valve limited drops to push sales to their store so I stopped running it all the time. A year later I looked at my power bill that showed I consumed quite a bit more electricity in the months where I was letting my PC run. Taking into consideration the factors that could have caused me to consume more electricity back then, I'm fairly confident that the computer was the primary culprit.
 
Quartz-1 said:
You don't use Hibernate?
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I know you're not responding to me but...

Is there a reason to use hibernate considering the loss of ssd space and risk? Considering how cheap ram is these days, many of us have 16-32 gb of ram and only a 128-256 ssd so that's a sizable chunk.
 
rsbennett00 said:
I know you're not responding to me but...
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Huh? I'm in a different time zone, that's all.

Is there a reason to use hibernate considering the loss of ssd space and risk?
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What risk?

Considering how cheap ram is these days, many of us have 16-32 gb of ram and only a 128-256 ssd so that's a sizable chunk.
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Not everyone uses SSDs; even 32 GB is trivial when taken out of 2 TB. I used to hibernate my PC every day; now I have a permanent internet connection I leave it on permanently
 
My pc gets turned on when I build it and when it turns off years later I build another :D
 
I put daily, but sometimes it's twice or three times a day, depending on how much I use it.

I carry my laptop in a backpack, and there's been a few times I've opened it up (after half a day sitting in there) to find that it had somehow "woken up" on the ride home and nearly baked itself to death. So now it always get fully shut-down before getting packed up.
 
Mine stays on 24/7. One reason is to keep up the seeds, the other is Logmein - I like having access to everything digital I own at any time. Monitor and receiver get shut off when not in use.
 
Home server: once a week. (windows update)
Gaming computer: gets shut down every night so, daily.
Work computer: no restarts unless there are updates.
 
Both, the HTPC and the Gaming rig, are always on but hibernating when I have no use for them.
 
where is the option of "Whenever I need to turn on my computer to use it"? Waste of electricity to leave the machine running all the time, sleeping or not.
 
HeavensCloud said:
Mine stays on 24/7. One reason is to keep up the seeds, the other is Logmein - I like having access to everything digital I own at any time. Monitor and receiver get shut off when not in use.
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This is why a have a NAS. I have access to my stuff from anywhere.
 
Daily - my work system and my home system. No reason to burn the electricity if I'm not using it. At home, sleep isn't very effective for me, since my cats just end up waking my computer up at random. Hibernate is equally useless when 13 out of the 24 seconds my system takes to go from power-button-press to fully loaded is POST. Best thing about Windows 8 is the pressure Microsoft is putting on motherboard makers and OEMs to reduce POST times.
 
I remember reading that if you do the math, and if your pc supports S3 sleep, it costs ~25c extra a month to leave your pc on 24/7 assuming you use it daily. Which is acceptable to me and is worth it since I often use WOL to access my pc.
 
MrCrispy said:
I remember reading that if you do the math, and if your pc supports S3 sleep, it costs ~25c extra a month to leave your pc on 24/7 assuming you use it daily. Which is acceptable to me and is worth it since I often use WOL to access my pc.
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The actual cost for would depend on local electricity prices and time that the system is in use vs sleep/off.

From a study that Microsoft did, it looks like sleep uses 3-4W vs. 0.5-2W for off. So let's say we save roughly 2 watts/hr powering off instead of using S3 sleep.

At 16 hours of non-use time per day, that's 496 hours per month, for just under 1kw in savings. Electricity is about $0.10 per kwh where I live, but for some parts of the country it is quite a bit higher.
 
McTurkey said:
The actual cost for would depend on local electricity prices and time that the system is in use vs sleep/off.

From a study that Microsoft did, it looks like sleep uses 3-4W vs. 0.5-2W for off. So let's say we save roughly 2 watts/hr powering off instead of using S3 sleep.

At 16 hours of non-use time per day, that's 496 hours per month, for just under 1kw in savings. Electricity is about $0.10 per kwh where I live, but for some parts of the country it is quite a bit higher.
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Even in the worst parts of the country, where top-tiered usage in California nets you $0.45/kWhr...you're only looking at saving enough for a McD's Happy Meal over a year.
 
At least every 30 days...to reset the trial period on a certain popular DVD/bluray decryptor....
 
Skripka said:
Even in the worst parts of the country, where top-tiered usage in California nets you $0.45/kWhr...you're only looking at saving enough for a McD's Happy Meal over a year.
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Agreed, for one computer it's not a big deal. Now, for a business with thousands of computers? That adds up fast--most of the energy saving focus for manufacturers has been at the behest of businesses and governments.
 
Only if I have to. Usually it ends up being about once a month due to some software issue.

I have the disk and monitors go into ultra low power mode after 30 minutes of inactivity. It draws very little power in this mode.
 
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