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Re: Re Xy on XP--an amende honorable



At 11:20 AM 10/19/2007, Robert Holmgren wrote:
 Just power down your drives and your
monitor after X minutes of no-access, via Control Panel ==>
Power Options (or whatever XP calls this applet). Make sure you
don't have a browser screen up that is constantly refreshing
itself -- or an Email client that does the same thing, etc.
Not to labor this, but, how does the above, in effect, differ from
using Start-->Turn off the computer-->Standby? Does powering up from
Standby put the same pressure on components as a boot?
Michael Norman