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Always off if not in use, the 2 fires we have had in offices at work in the last 10 years have both been PC's that caught fire, 1 being a monitor the other a laptop docking station.

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Did you know that monitors tend to catch fire most often at the time they are switched on. The magnetic fields in the coils can keep dust and rubbish away, but when its switched off this all settles and can cause problems.

I used to work for a company that had monitors on the factory floor and they used to get full of cast iron dust. If you switched them off they would always go bang when you switched them on again. We had a power cut once and 100's of the things when bang when the power came back on.

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I tend to leave mine on all the time. I have a good firewall, good virus protection and know exactly what data goes out and comes in while I am not using my pc.

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It's sort-of off when not in use, but Mac OSX has a very effective sleep mode, so I can crank it up again in about 5 seconds.

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It is very good, though the pulsing on/off light is really annoying if you are trying to sleep in the same room.

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Since my PC is in my bedroom I only ever leave it on overnight if I'm downloading a large file.

Pretty hard to sleep since it's quite noisy. Might have to invest in liquid cooling kit in the near future.

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lol, the ghostly blue light in the bass box of my Harmon Kardon sound sticks annoys our family and friends even more (it's all in the spare room). :D
We stayed in our own spare room while we decorated ours, I just propped a CD case in front of the pulsing Mac light.

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Threw a spare pillow over it, unplugged the AirportExpress and pressed the standby button on the SACM when I stayed at my Mother In Laws.