who leaves there machine in sleep mode over night?

[Ron Anders]

I do. I close everything and then close the lid. Nigh-nigh laptop. See you in the morning.

[Forogar]

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[MarkTJohnson]

Leave mine plugged in and walk away in the evening. But then I'm at the house not an office.

[OriginalGriff]

Yaw right - naturally.

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[dan sh]

At office: shutdown every single day. At home: I let the laptop battery die

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[Ryan Peden]

Just overnight? I don't think I've shut down or restarted my desktop PC in weeks. Maybe longer.

[Rick York]

I used to. Then microsoft demonstrated they can not be trusted with it so I don't anymore. I am sick and tired of opening it up to find it powered on and too hot to touch after having closed its lid at the end of the day.

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[Sander Rossel]

I shut it down completely when I'm done with it. Closing all my work puts me in the relax mode so I do that anyway, and it's back on in a minute when I need it again.

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[PeterA]

Yep I do, reboot once per week ;)

[Jacquers]

Hibernation mode for me, on the laptop.

[spoljarecDamir]

I boot it up Monday morning, shut it down on Friday when done with work. In between I just lock it at the end of the day which puts it into sleep anyways.

[Mario Luis]

Not me, laptop sits lid closed and additional screens off at the office. If I'm needed, use my main machine at home to remote into it for whatever requires doing.

[User 10760187]

I always shut down my computers at night, always have.

[DougInNC2]

When you run your PC it gets warm and all of the tiny components expand. Shut it down and they all contract again. Over time your just asking for trouble. Not sure if that's really true but it seems safer just to leave it on all the time (or off all the time if it was my choice).

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[Erhy]

all times until Windows want reboot fo update

[MSBassSinger]

Same here.

[PSU Steve]

Same here

[JakeSays]

When I leave any of my computers I expect them to be in the exact same state when I return. The only thing that ever gets powered down are my laptops when I'm mobile. Needless to say I don't share well when it comes to hardware I earn a living with.

[Riz Thon]

True, I've had those issues quite often after several OS updates. I had to check several times what was waking the laptop in the middle of the night (also, why wasn't it going back to sleep as it should after 30 minutes?) but couldn't find anything useful. Eventually I changed a setting to disallow the computer to wake up for updates, and now it's fine (until the next update that messes it up).

[charlieg]

I'll have to try hibernate then. Sleep mode was never implemented nor behaved correctly. I'll always have kernel threads running for no reason after sleep mode.

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