Personal opinion and preference!
I left my old Win98SE on all the time, but restarted a couple times each
day, especially first thing in the morning, and only shut down during
storms. My scheduled tasks ran one per night, scandisk on Monday, complete
AV scan every Tuesday, defragged on Wednesday, etc., all at 3AM. Instead of
a screen saver, my monitor used power saver mode but not the pc itself.
My new Vista pc stays on all the time, but restarted a couple times each
day, especially first thing in the morning, and only shut down during
storms. It runs auto update at 3AM by default and I scheduled defrag for 5AM
once a week. Instead of a screen saver, my monitor uses power mode but not
the pc itself.
I never tried sleep or hibernate. I'm a bit of a night owl and that works
best for me. I am very set in my ways.
KB
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