From: "Robert Comer" 

>I know cold-booting is hard on the drives... what other kind of wear and
> tear?

hard drives are the biggest problem with cold starts, but there are
possible problems with fans, power supplies, and even heat
expansion/contraction that can happen on cold starts.

- Bob Comer


"Ellen K."  wrote
in message news:v7u3t0l3l3ip6mckf57ccq7f97otshlpp3{at}4ax.com...
>I know cold-booting is hard on the drives... what other kind of wear and
> tear?
>
> On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:07:02 -0500, "Robert Comer"
>  wrote in message
> :
>
>>>I never shut down my home ones either.   Realize I am Type A+, do not
>>> want to wait for machine to boot when I sit down at it.
>>
>>I don't usually shut down my computers because of the wear and tear
>>factor...
>>
>>- Bob Comer
>>
>>
>>"Ellen K."
 wrote in message
>>news:7jr1t0l8uhvf2n22b7r600g4qqeo60s1sk{at}4ax.com...
>>>I never shut down my home ones either.   Realize I am Type A+, do not
>>> want to wait for machine to boot when I sit down at it.
>>>
>>> Wonder how much electricity a computer uses actually...  do you know?
>>>
>>> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:55:24 -0500, Mike '/m'
 wrote in
>>> message :
>>>
>>>>
>>>>This is the desktop in my dining room.  No sense leaving it on
>>>>overnight,
>>>>wasting electricity.  Also, I had noticed more crashes when I didn't
>>>>reboot
>>>>every couple of days.
>>>>
>>>> /m
>>>>
>>>>On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 01:21:48 -0800, Ellen K.
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I never shut any of my machines down.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:43:52 -0500, Mike '/m'
 wrote
>>>>>in
>>>>>message :
>>>>>
>>>>>>At first I thought it was just me.  At first I
thought there was
>>>>>>something in
>>>>>>my environment that was causing Windows to take so
long to shut down.
>>>>>>Then I
>>>>>>noticed a couple of things.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The first was that a new install of Windows 2000
shut down quickly.
>>>>>>However,
>>>>>>once I visited the Windows Update site and started
to bring W2K up to
>>>>>>date
>>>>>>with all the critical fixes, the shutdown delay
appeared.  Somewhere
>>>>>>during
>>>>>>the multiple download, install and reboot process,
I noticed that the
>>>>>>shutdowns were taking longer and longer.   It might
have been the
>>>>>>download of
>>>>>>27 critical patches that was the cause.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>At that point I was still thinking it was something
I was doing.  Then
>>>>>>I
>>>>>>got a
>>>>>>new notebook with W2K on it.  I wanted to test the
system recovery, so
>>>>>>I
>>>>>>did
>>>>>>the recovery option that does a clean install of
W2K.  The initial
>>>>>>install
>>>>>>shut down quickly.  However, after I visited
Windows Update and
>>>>>>downloaded the
>>>>>>critical patches, the shutdown slowness appeared,
even on that new
>>>>>>notebook.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>So now I'm thinking that it is me or my home
network.  Then I see a
>>>>>>cartoon in
>>>>>>the November 2004 issue of Optimize, a trade rag
for CIO's published
>>>>>>by
>>>>>>CMP
>>>>>>Media.  On page 17 the cartoon shows an office
worker who has fallen
>>>>>>asleep at
>>>>>>his desk, the clock on the wall says 8:00.  It is
nighttime because
>>>>>>you
>>>>>>can
>>>>>>see the window lights of other office buildings in
the background.
>>>>>>There is a
>>>>>>cleaning lady looking at the office worker in a
darkened office.  His
>>>>>>face is
>>>>>>lit up by the glow of the PC's monitor.  On the
screen, the monitor
>>>>>>says,
>>>>>>"Please Wait While Windows Shuts Down".
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Once I saw that, I thought, it's not something I'm doing.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>So now that begs the question, what in the world is
causing Windows to
>>>>>>take
>>>>>>nearly two minutes from the time I tell it to
shutdown until the time
>>>>>>it
>>>>>>actually shuts down?  It used to take a few seconds.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Has anyone else seen this problem?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /m
>>>>>>
>>>
>>
>

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