Any danger in leaving pc on standby for extended periods of time?

OzyOly · 22 Mar 2008 at 15:45

Hey there, just wondering if there is any danger to my hardware if I leave it on standby for a long time as opposed to turning it off.

I just find it easier to wake up and to resume it from standby and to have all my applications open as I left them, then to turn it on and having to wait to select my operating system.

Cheers.

helmutcheese · 22 Mar 2008 at 15:46

Not really, but if Vista use Hybrid Sleep and then it will resume even after no power.

OzyOly · 22 Mar 2008 at 15:48

As, forgot to update my sig, I'm back on xp now. I'm not putting vista back on till SP2 I reckon.

crazyDAJT · 22 Mar 2008 at 16:56

OzyOly said:
As, forgot to update my sig, I'm back on xp now. I'm not putting vista back on till SP2 I reckon.

any particulate reason why,

and vista SP2 might be some time away.

OzyOly · 22 Mar 2008 at 17:14

Some of my games wouldn't work, I found getting to things a lot more work. Even tho Vista is free for me, I'm still preferring xp right now.