Do you leave your computer on continuously?

I leave mine on when I go to bed, and signed in, because if I don't, when I turn it on again, my security scanner restarts and slows everything down. I just switch off the screen, which saves electricity and I'm sure if the pc is inactive, you don't use much electricity anyway. The same, when I go out for a couple of hours. I leave it on, but go invis on IMs. That way, if peeps want to send me IMs, I get them when I come back, and I can resume what I was doing on the computer on my return, without having to sign in.

I only do this when I'm downloading large files. It is better to do this at night because the climate is cooler and overheating will not be an issue. I only leave the CPU turned on. I switch off the monitor and te speakers so that I can still save electricity.

My computer is on almost all day but i make sure that i switch them off during the night cos it gets very hot sometimes. Its better turning them off cos it doesnt hang up when i use it the next day. I've my automatic updates set during the night before i turn it off.

i turn on my pc at about 10 am in the morning and turn it off at 10 pm. about 12 hours a day. but i use it for about 5 hours everyday.

My computer is on until i am here in office ( approximately 10 hours), i update my computer manually, because i want to make sure what softwares are being downloaded in my computer.

Our computer stays on when we get up till the time we either leave the house or till we go to bed. It seems if we leave the computer up all the time it starts slowing down and acting crazy. So we shut it off to give it a cool down period. We've also had computers blow up the few times we did leve them on all night. We'd hear a loud pop in the middle of the night and then the next day the computer wouldn't come on. So we're kind leery of leaving it on when we're not close to it now. We had lightening strike a computer once too.

I leave the electricity on, but have the computer shut down into standby. My updates are set for daytime when I'm watching TV - lol.

I always turn my computer off at night to save on electricity and also due to safety reasons, the automatic updates are done for me whether I am on or off my computer so I do not have to worry about that and they are done at night.

ya i do but i give itt a rest for an hour or two...and at night...

No its not on continously bocz when i m working till then its is on otherwise switched off.

Well i Switch of my computer at night as i have good broadband speed so if i ll have to update it get over within 2-3 hours i can download up to 100 mb data in 3 to 4 minutes.

At the office, my computer stays on for almost 10hrs to monitor all local communications at the plant...at home, definitely no....with the rising cost of power, it will only drains you up of your savings though your using a low consumption (40watts) LCD monitor....worst if your using a high consumption CRT monitor which consumes as much as 250watts and above of power.

normally i switch off it after used.but sometimes,i lave it for a while,when i downloading songs and movies.

I personally do not leave my computer on all of the time. I only leave it on when I intend to use it. When I am not using it I definitely do turn it off. As I've heard that keeping one's computer on for a long period of time that.. It will help to lessen the life of your computer/PC. But I've also heard that if one restarts there computer once in a while that it clears memory. In general I dislike leaving my computer on as the power bill would not be fun to pay once I get it.. I try to save on as much power as I can & I know the computer drains a lot of power.. I find by leaving one's computer on that all it does is run the power bill up! I also had my friend once leave there computer on all the time.. And they supposedly didn't have a great cooling system.. And what ended up happening was they had to replace some of there parts to there computer because.. They ended up melting due to the extreme heat.. So that could be another reason why I don't leave it on for hrs. upon hrs.. So that is my personal preference.. To turn it off when I am not using it.