From: Ellen K. 

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...
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>- 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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