Can I leave my pc on sleep or should I shut it off?
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mjslakeridge
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I hibernate my machine (windows 8.1 Pro) at the end of each day. It takes a little longer to start up in the morning than putting it in sleep mode, but I found that in sleep mode it would wake itself up for no reason (that I could determine) in the middle of the night and be running in the morning.
mjslakeridge
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You can go into task scheduler and make sure the housekeeping types of tasks are not done in the middle of the night. It takes a bit of time as there are quite a few tasks. I think my issue is that I have a home network (workgroup) set up with certain directories set to share files, and if my wife booted up her machine after mine was in sleep mode, that would wake it up. I tried messing around in the BIOS to turn of wake on lan, and similar, but to no avail.
mjslakeridge
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That is probably a good way to go. If it is a new PC you probably have a SSD as the boot drive and boot-up is pretty fast anyway. The reason I hibernate mine rather that turn it off is I generally have quite a few applications running (Chrome, IP camera viewers, several Instant Messaging apps, task manager, Windows Media Center, MSI afterburner, etc.) and it is just easier to resume where I left off, rather than re-open each app.
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Just as an alternative, I leave my systems running 24/7 and just turn off the displays. My main does virus scans early in the morning (2:30am) and my HTPC might need to record something around the same time. Easier to just leave them up and running. They've been running like this for years now with no noticeable ill effect.
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I cheaped out and wanted more storage for games rather than an ssd as my build was a really budget build (400-550 with a pentium g4560 and a 1050ti), but there hasn't been an actual box pc in our household ever so I didn't have any boot time to compare my desktops boot time to. My family also has been in the Apple ecosystem too and Mac boot times are a solid 2 to 3 minutes. Even in the macbook air that we have with an sad, the boot time is the same 2 to 3 minutes after completely turning it off. Usually though, these computers are hibernating (on sleep mode so)
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