Do you leave your computer on even if you are away?

sometimes i leave my computer on when i'm gone, but it all depends how long i'm gone for. for about an hour or so i'll leave it on but if i leave all day there is no way i'd leave it on that long

I usually leave my computer on when I am away or i will put it into sleep mode. I don't like to keep on turning on and off my computer every time I use it. Well, if I m away for like 2 days or 1 week, I will turn my computer off.

Hi, you can keep your computer turned on for one whole day and nothing will happen to it(i have tried this).Computers are manufactured such that they can be run for days without shutting em down.But fior that you have to make sure you have a cooling fan and the CPU is ventilated. What happens when a computer runs a process is that it gets heated up.But when its not running any processes it wil cool down automatically.So when you leav it on and go out, during that time the system will no overheat.It will go into a standby mode and less sytem resources will be used. i have turned on my system for downloading for a whiole day and i turn on my system before going to sleep daily for downloading.

If I am gone for hours then I prefer turning it off. Otherwise if I am going for a couple of minutes then its better to keep it in stand by mode. I am always afraid of power cuts,though it rarely happens.

not me i do turn off my pc when i am done with it. i heard that saving electricity also decreases the carbon emmision. don't know how but heard it does. its helping the world too.

hi norose.I will not turn off my computer when i am away from it.I just leave it running.In some times at the night times also i will leave my computer running.I will download some softwares and movies from the internet.So i usually download them at the night times.So that i will keep downloading i will leave my computer running at the night times.If there is no work for me with my computer i will just turn off and i will leave it. Happy mylotting...

No I am not so busy that I don't turn off my system, I normally leave my computers on as I have a money making program running on all of them. So if my computer is off when I sleep and at a normal day job, I am not making any money at all, where if I leave them on I am, true it might be only pennies a day, but then it only cost pennies a day to leave them on.

my main computer I put to sleep, though if I'm downloading something I keep it on. Or if I fall asleep, of course it keeps running. I can't stand it when I wake up and the thing has been connected to the internet for over eight hours doing nothing. No wonder MCI is charging me $56 a month ...

I never turn off my computer I have a ibook and it stays on and plugged in I guess its just a habit

sometimes I leave my computer on when I am downloading a film, otherwise I always switch it off since I hate wasting electricity since here it is too expensive...

Well, I am not real busy all the time but I still always leave my computer on. It goes back to when I was married to a computer nut, he said it used less energy to keep the computer on, then it was to turn it off and back on again. Besides the last couple times I turned it off, it did not come back on. It crashed and I had to re-install everything! Luckily so far it has been doing well..

I leave my computer on, but on stand by. So it doesn't take for ever to turn on.

sometimes whenI am downloading then only I leave my on ,But tan also I switch of the mnitor power supply

I really only leave it on when i know i'm going to be away for less than 2 hours. Any more than that and i'll shutdown my computer because my laptop tends to start overheating after about 3 hours of idleness. Really messed up i know.

Yes my friend, I am always downloading something or the other so I keep my computer on when I am away also. This is why I keep my computer on.

I have to say that I am very bad about leaving my computer on. I don't know why, but I just am.

I'm usually pretty good about turning the computer off after I use it, but once in a while some program doesn't turn off properly and I don't notice until my dad tells me that I didn't shut it down properly.