Standby Mode Windows XP

davester

if your turning your router off then might as well turn off your lappy too. Routers take a few moments to boot up themselves so can do it at the same time, thats unless your computer is old and takes all day to boot up

andy2004

Chromer how many processes in your taskmanager after you have booted ?
could you take a screen shot of your taskmanger with the processes screen, you can enlarge the window by moving it to the top and then dragging the bottom of the window to the bottom of your screen. press Prtscn to take a screen shot, the open a picture editor, paintshop pro, paint.net and paste as new image, upload to https://www.tinyimg.com then post link here.altnatively run hijackthis and save a log file and upload that.

fitzroy

davester wrote: »

if your turning your router off then might as well turn off your lappy too. Routers take a few moments to boot up themselves so can do it at the same time, thats unless your computer is old and takes all day to boot up

Thanks for reply but it's the laptop I'm currently turning off overnight and router stays on 24/7. I just need to know if turning off the router (which is what I want to do) everynight will do any harm (see the original quote in my previous post).

davester

no I turn off my router everynight, save a bit of money, Been doing it every night for almost 3 years now and it still working fine.

Richard_Wells

davester wrote: »

no I turn off my router everynight, save a bit of money, Been doing it every night for almost 3 years now and it still working fine.

How much do you think you save per annum by doing that?

davester

My free energy monitor drops 1p a day, so if always on = £3.65p a year and never on =£0.00 a year. So average of being off while your sleeping you save £1.21p a year.

Richard_Wells

davester wrote: »

My free energy monitor drops 1p a day, so if always on = £3.65p a year and never on =£0.00 a year. So average of being off while your sleeping you save £1.21p a year.

Thanks.

Were you aware you will considerably shorten the life of your router doing what you’re doing? The thermal stress you’re putting on the internal components, by allowing them to cool down overnight and then heat back up again the next day (when you power it back up again) will mean they’ll fail earlier than if you left the router on?

What I’m saying is you should really factor in the replacement cost of a router into your "savings".

bob_a_builder

When you go to Turn Off Computer, press the Shift button and the Standby icon will change to Hibernate

Or you can just press "H" once that screen appears

There is also a registry fix to add a Hibernate icon to that screen

davester

Richard_Wells wrote: »

Thanks.

Were you aware you will considerably shorten the life of your router doing what you’re doing? The thermal stress you’re putting on the internal components, by allowing them to cool down overnight and then heat back up again the next day (when you power it back up again) will mean they’ll fail earlier than if you left the router on?

What I’m saying is you should really factor in the replacement cost of a router into your "savings".

Router is 5 years old already still works.

Richard_Wells

davester wrote: »

Router is 5 years old already still works.

I'm not saying it'll only last 10 minutes doing what you're doing

But, say its supposed to last 20 years and yours lasts 10. So, you've saved £11.21 (10 x £1.21) in electricity but it's gonna cost you £50 or more to replace it. That's all.