Sometimes when I take it off from sleep (because I wasn't home or something), the browser's Internet won't work right. I just had to completely close and re-open Mozilla Firefox because it wasn't loading anything. I know it wasn't the Internet because it was working fine on Google Chrome when I was checking to see if it was the Internet while it wasn't on Mozilla Firefox simultaneously.
Have you considered not leaving it on when you go out? A computer is like a car. Having it on, even if you're not using it, makes it degrade with age much faster than having it off.
Your post implied that it went into sleep mode because you let it on without using it for a while. That said, do you actually think that leaving your computer in sleep mode is the same as turning it off? FYI, it's not.
My usual schedule Monday - Thursday: I leave for the GED class anywhere between 10:00 AM and 11:00 AM. I then grab my mom at work around 12:00 PM for lunch. I drop her off at work and go back to class around 1:00 PM and get back around 2:00 PM. Not long enough periods of time for shutdowns.
He seemed pretty serious to me. Seriously, full shutdowns do wonders for performance. Let me share a tale with you. My old high school had a computer that had been on literally nonstop for around five years. When it started screwing up big time, nobody knew what to do about it. I'm surprised it didn't screw up big time within the first year. I asked the administration if it had anything super important on it that would be lost forever if they had to get rid of it and transfer everything on the hard drive to the new computer. They said no. I pressed the power button for five seconds, then turned it on and walked out of the room with a smug smile on my face. I probably didn't look as cool as I thought I did.
Sleep mode isn' t free, it needs electricity. You might not be the one paying the bills or you just don' t really pay attention, thinking it' d be cheap to think that way, but it' s not. I actually tested it out, this plus this plus that, over a whole year, it adds up real quick. If you' re wealthy enough to still not care, well, keep in mind the planet would say thanks. That' s why machines that only have a sleep mode are a big no no in Germany, they' re very concerned by ecology. Plus, as you' ve just been told, it worns your stuff out faster, the sleep mode is programmed obsolescence in all its glory. And yes, the longer a session goes and, as I' ve already told you, the more tasks you run at the same time, the more chances for a bug or a conflict to pop up. To make an analogy, the sleep mode is really the "stop moving (but not thinking) mode", a computer needs to be shut off to actually "sleep" (even if you turn it back on immediately or just reset it, that does the trick). I get that sometimes stuff happens, we have to leave in a hurry, we fall asleep or something, but if you do have two seconds to spare to turn your computer off properly then you should do it, sleep modes just have too many downsides for the few seconds of waiting they (might, apparently) spare you.
It's off all night unless I either fall asleep unintentionally, which is very rare, or I'm up for most of the or the whole night.
