>> When I leave the office for the day, I typically shut down the
>> computer. Why? I never turn my computer off.
Same here, I always just suspend.
> I wish I had that option. But I live way out in the country, and now
> and then there is a power outage. My computer is running on a UPS,
> but UPS batteries die after being run down more than a few times, and
> battery replacement is expensive. And then there are lightning
> storms...
For those computers where I'm not coming back to them the next day,
I hibernate them, so they're truly "off" and a powercut is perfectly
harmless, but when I turn them back on I get back to where I was.
Stefan
