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To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (3727)	11/26/1998 3:46:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Respond to of 14778

The skeptical fan club. I am with Sean and the gang on this one. Just leave the computer on with everything the way you want it. It has got to be superior to suspend to disc. I use a similar approach with my browser windows. I leave them all open and disconnect from the web. When I reconnect all the browsers are the way I left them. This works great until Netscape crashes..which it always does and takes down all of the browser windows..that reminds me...Opera:) To save juice I configure my harddrives to spin down after an hour and manually turn off the monitor when I leave the computer. Holiday Greetings to ALL Zeuspaul

To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (3727)	11/27/1998 11:32:00 AM
From: Clarence Dodge	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14778

Sean Why would you need such a thing. WHy turn the computer off at all???? I've gotten into a routine with my current machine with I feel comfortable and a little more protected from the unexpected. I shutdown the machine two or three times a week (overnite) to restart/reset my configurations the following morning. Upon restarting I have a couple of maintence uttilities set to slow scan the HDD for a variety of possibly developing problems. I could set these utilities to scan anytime but the addition a restart appears to be beneficial. I felt that being able to continue this ritual with the added ability to automatically come back to my usual screens would be nice. I agree that suspend to disk appears iffy...... its not the main reason for choosing the board though. As you know, I'm not an expert in these matters and my restart & scan ritual may very well be a false security blanket. Clarence