I have enough of EA ruining great franchises and studios, forcing DRM and Origin on their games, releasing incomplete games only to sell day-1 DLCs or spill dozens of DLCs, and then saying it, and microtransactions, is what players want, stopping players from giving EA games poor reviews, as well as deflecting complaints with cheap PR tricks.
I'm not going to buy any game by EA as long as they continue those practices.
I shut mine off every night. If I put it into Sleep mode it sometimes randomly comes back on for some reason.
There is suppose to be a way to control that in Windows 10. Go into "Group Policy Editor" and you will see some options on auto updates. You can access Group Policy Editor by typing in run, gpedit.
Do use Windows 10, so I am not positive about using that program in 10, but it was posted on here in another thread on how to control Windows 10 auto updates. I do know when I eventually will be forced to switch to it, as Windows 8.1 will no longer get security updates after early 2024, it is one thing I will certainly check out.
" If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.." - Abraham Lincoln
“ The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to - prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms..” - Samuel Adams
Windows is designed to be shut down from time to time.
The OP leaves his on all the time because sleep mode isn't the same as shutting down.
Think of shutting the computer down or restarting it as giving it a good dusting or spring cleaning. Keep putting it into sleep and windows starts doing strange things eventually.
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Because some of those updates are critical security updates which you should not be putting off...
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I have enough of EA ruining great franchises and studios, forcing DRM and Origin on their games, releasing incomplete games only to sell day-1 DLCs or spill dozens of DLCs, and then saying it, and microtransactions, is what players want, stopping players from giving EA games poor reviews, as well as deflecting complaints with cheap PR tricks.
I'm not going to buy any game by EA as long as they continue those practices.
Personally, I never really power down my system fully. Mostly I just keep my laptop in sleep mode (I never use hibernate, nothing but issues) when not working on it and reboot usually once a week.
I shut it down whenever I'm done with it. No reason not to whether you have SSD or HDD disks
I turn off my pc every day before going to bed unless I want it to do something over night such as downloading or transfering files. I used to run my old pc as a vmware host and it ran for 8 months. It increased my electrical bill with 20% so when my friends stopped playing on the minecraft server I was hosting I turned it off. i7 gen 1 are not very efficient. :P
" If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.." - Abraham Lincoln
“ The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to - prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms..” - Samuel Adams
I shut my comp down anytime im not going to use it for a few hours.
Too long to start up...? With an SSD my PC takes only 7 seconds from cold start to desk top. I always turn it off when not being used.
Lol! You have a name for your computer. That's cool.
Getting off topic some, but I have a old tractor ( 1959 Ford diesel ) I have had for decades and I use it a lot here on the homestead. I call it, Old Blue.
Back on topic, I think it really is good for a computer to be completely shut down and restarted occasionally even if you do not put it to sleep once a day.
Clears up some memory issues and some programs running in the background which for some reason, never closed completely.
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" If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.." - Abraham Lincoln
“ The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to - prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms..” - Samuel Adams
About a week ago.
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Well I was 15 or so when I first installed Windows on my very first computer and it asked for a computer name. (didn't have a clue about home networks etc back then)
After staring at the screen in confusion for a few minutes I named her "Yuna" b/c I had a crush on a certain video game character.
Now, 19 years later, that's still the name of my desktop computer.
I shut down mine usually when Windows needs to update, so maybe once every one to two weeks.
I just use this feature.
Never. I'm always seeding torrents while sleeping. Gotta keep those ratios up.
I never turn my PC off, they run months just fine. Being on windows I inevitably have to restart it though, but off? Never. No point, and I have had ZERO issues in the 17 years I've owned my own PC.
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Negligible to the point of irrelevance. My bill is like $150 a month.
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