How often do you power down?

EpicThorn said:

Hairdryers are forbidden in my house!

They'd be forbidden in mine, too, if I wasn't 'whipped.

gregrocker said:

I set Sleep for 30 and Hibernate for 60. That way if I walk away and come back it can wake up quickly, but if I don't want to come back it turns off the machine for me with all of my work saved.

My roommate insists on keeping the power on at all times, including on his monitor which just burned out after a year. It irritates all of us who split the power bill.

This is my setup exactly. When I go to bed at night my computer will hibernate after 1 hour and via a scheduled task is powered up and ready to go at 7:00 a.m. I don't have to touch it.
I rarely shut it down.

If she looked like that I might not mind.

Every night = Power Down.

Once or twice = Sleep modes during day if down period not intended to be too long.

My laptop is switched on 24/7 when it's on my desk. When I need to to take it somewhere, it put it in suspend before I put it in my bag. I reboot fairly often though since I dual boot Windows and Linux, but I sometimes go a week or two without rebooting to the other OS, it just depends what I'm up to.

I find leaving it on 24/7 gets all the mundane stuff out the way (like AV scans, nightly backups, defrags etc) whilst I'm sleeping. It also means I can schedule downloads if I want to as well (since my internet connection is quite slow so I can't download things and use it during the day), as well as being able to keep whatever I'm using open (yeah, I'm lazy like that).

I use sleep mode pretty much all the time. Sleep at night when i go to bed. Sleep when i am at work all day. No need to fully shut it down. Although i do like to reboot every once and a while to start windows "fresh."

I never power down. I need to have my rig available 24-7 :)