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Re: Leaving the PC on for a week
Posted to PC Users Forum on 9/14/2002

Hi Beng-Hock,

The benefits of leaving a PC on are basically to prevent the power surges on starting it up (light the instant on surge of a light bulb being turned on), that can lead to power supplies and hard drives failing earlier than expected.

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