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Originally Posted by MrCoffee
5.Do not leave your computer on for more than 4 hours at a time if you are not using. Seeing as thisis a gaming community I'm sure all of you download large files such as movies, games, and tv shows. Now It is fine to leave you computer on but you should turn off your screen. What I do is I have an old computer which I use for a server and noone uses so what I do is setup a network (which is relatively easy) and download the files on the old computer which I can leave on around the clock.
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im not so sure about that one. its widely argued that shutting your computer down every so often actually does more damage to it then leaving it on.
i shut mine down every night, its on all day long, and some will even say thats shutting it down too often.
For the Monitor, i've never read anything on that says its not good to turn it off, if i ever leave my computer on over night while its downloading or defragging, i turn my monitor off, but often thats because i dont want the glow from it at night. computers have the option to put the monitor in sleep mode after so much time not being used for a reason.
Also for the Msconfig, really theres only a couple that the computer needs when it starts up, and it will usually turn it back on if it needs it. but if you are going to turn off ones your unsure of, do em 1 at a time, turn off one, reboot and see if things are good before turning off the next.
and also, if the name doesnt give you a hint of what the program is, if you look at what directory its in, you can usually see what program its for.