How often do you do a hard shut down on your pc?
How often do you do a hard shut down on your pc?
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Pretty much never. But I had a computer with too little memory RAM and I had to hard shut down often, I have like 20 tabs open all the time plus other programs. Specially Firefox uses to much memory.
It's not too often I hard shut down my PC and only do it if I need to. Not sure if it's better to hard shut it down but many seem to not do it too often and I can't say I have heard of too many people having issues.
The only major benefit of shutting it down when not in use is wasting electricity, but that depends on if you disabled sleep mode, or the computer draws a ton of power on idle.
Also heat generation in your room if you sleep in the same room.
Shutting down the computer could resolve some issues that it's having.
If you're using a company computer, it might have to do timely shut downs in order to have updates pushed through.
If you're using a company computer, it might have to do timely shut downs in order to have updates pushed through.
Those are restarts, which is very different than shutting down for a computer. You can’t push updates to a computer that’s shut down either.
If you're going to shut it down, then obviously you're going to want to start it up again at some point.
When someone says restart in regards to a computer, they mean they set it so it shuts down and when finished shutting down, it immediately begins to restart on its own as opposed to a shut down that when finished does not restart until someone turns it back on manually by pushing the power button. I don't ever fully shut down the computer unless forced by a power failure. I do however do restarts when needed for updates though.
I think you missed my point. I’m talking about how computers have a restart function alongside a shut down function, and how they’re two different functions.
Restarting is when it does a quick reboot of your computer, and shut down completely powers it off. When there’s a system update, your computer uses the restart function, and you can get back to using the computer after it’s done. Shut down means you have to physically press the power button to use the computer again.
I wasn't referring to a Windows update. I meant a company update and where I used to work, they had us do a complete shut down.
What do you mean by company update? Replacing the computers or updating the software? If it's the latter, it's totally pointless to shut it down, as it won't get the update if it's shut down.
I am not sure what hard shut down is. I put off my computer once only to open it the next day.
Actually power it off instead of restarting, or closing a laptop lid.
I only take this course of action if my computer hangs. I feel bad if I am doing it.