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Originally posted by nevets
So leaving the tower powered up is not a bad thing then? apart from the extra leccy.
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It's worth a reboot from time to time. Some software (including Windows itself, occasionally), "leak" memory. This means they allocate a chunk of system RAM for a task and forget to release it.
This is much less of a problem than it used to be (and in the past a Windows machine most likely wouldn't stay up for 24 hours anyway), but the odd reboot is the most certain thing to give you a clean sheet as far as RAM is concerned.
The "powering up & down is bad for electronics" argument is true, but your PC contains
mechanical devices too, such as fans in the case and PSU, and the hard disks, whose "mean time before failure" (MTBF) is dependent on running time. Also, modern processors run quite hot. So, if you're going to be away for a while, I reckon it's worth shutting down the PC.