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There are a few things to consider here.

Pro's:
1.	By keeping your PC on, the components will not undergo the stresses
of thermo-cycling, which can be the cause of failing solder joints,
track breakage, and chip creep.
2.	Near zero boot time! (just monitor returning from standby and Screen
Saver closing!)

Con's
1.	I'm sure that most HDD's spin all the time (except laptop ones for
power saving), now keeping them powered up will wear the motor quicker.
Mean time between failures are normall quoted in number of hours, so
this may reduced the effective life of your drives.
2.	CPU fans and Power supply fans have limited lifes.  If one fails
while you are asleep,  either your computer could fry, die, or even
burn!
3.	The cost of the electricity.
4.	You will need to clean (blow out) the insides of your PC more
regularily to get rid of the extra dust intoduced by the power supply's
fan. (Called preventative maintainance)

I used to keep my old 486DX33 on 24 hours a day, and just turn on and
off the monitor.  Over a period of about 2 years, the PC never failed,
but the monitor failed with a broken track which I had to repair.  I
wasn't paying for electricity then, but now I am, so my PC now goes on
and off as required.

Bye

PS Personally I'd keep the PC on all the time if their was no difference
in my power bill, which would  probably be equal to a 100w globe on
average (bit of a guess).

scott schwartz wrote:
> 
> I use my computer daily and would like to know if turning it on and off
> everyday is more streesful to the computer than leaving it on all the
> time.  They claim that computers use very little electricity when idle.
>   Please email me your response.  Thank you.

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