How often do you shut down your computer?

[Simon S]

sleep mode at night
Try to make a point to do a full shut down ~2 weeks
Run spybot ~weekly
Defrags ~monthly

(nursing old system that I've hot rodded to its extent with ram/video cards/etc.)

[mikeedler]

why would you not turn your computer off? mommy n daddy pay the electric bill?

[e30trooper]

i just started recently shutting mine down. Im at 62 hours atm. theres been times it wasnt shut off for over a month or more..

[u3b3rg33k]

I used to leave my desktop constantly running up until it crashed. Basically, because it never powered down to save, and the compilation of registry errors it developed a corrupt file in the system. Now I use my laptop and power down weekly.

Registry changes are instantaneous, they don't all get written at shutdown.

why would you not turn your computer off? mommy n daddy pay the electric bill?

Sleep mode? People seem to forget it exists...

My laptop usually has 30+ day uptime, I must have rebooted it for an update, as it only has two weeks of uptime right now. Some of my servers are in the 180 day range right now though.

[MikeDE]

When my battery dies and when the 'please restart to complete your updates' message gets on my nerves everytime I log on.

[z31maniac]

Computer is the HTPC in the living room. Shut it down everytime we leave or go to sleep.

I'm running a fairly powerful system with Windows 7. It boots up faster than the TV warms up, so I see no need to leave it on.

[Simon S]

about a year ago, power supply failed so I replaced it.

couldn't BELIEVE how chuck-full of bunnies it was..

not a fan of long run-times after that. lol

[scabzzzz]

12:18:37: xx here....
I only restart for patches. Otherwise, I'll just end processes and restart services to fix things restarts fix.

[agent]

why would you not turn your computer off? mommy n daddy pay the electric bill?

When power management is used (properly), booting up a powerful PC every day can consume more power than leaving it running.

[u3b3rg33k]

about a year ago, power supply failed so I replaced it.

couldn't BELIEVE how chock-full of bunnies it was..

not a fan of long run-times after that. lol

Fixed. And I clean mine every 6 months. Compressed air is a wonderful tool.

[Earendil]

Running OSX at home, and only ever shutdown for OS updates. So it's usually up for about 2 months.

At work I hammer on the XP machine, and it's up for 2 weeks at a time. It really should be restarted after a week or so, but I hate closing all the open applications and trying to return my system to a working state...

[A_Whelan]

I have a POS 6 year old Toshiba laptop that I power down most nights. I would go buy a new PC or a laptop but I have this car that I keep sinking funds into.... fucking e30 love

[Varinn]

I see no reason to leave mine running :S goes into sleep mode after 30 minutes, and every time I leave the house for hour+ I shut it down

[s0urce]

I go Months... Seriously, I never shut this beast off.

[Vince30]

Sleep mode? People seem to forget it exists...

So true, sleep mode does not restart your up-time count it just pauses it.
It takes so much to boot up a computer it is actually bad to do full shut downs every time you walk away from it. Ideal would be sleep mode when you are not on it and full shutdown about once a week.