From: "Robert Comer" 

>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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