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Hi Folks,

I have been leaving my home machines and my work machines up overnight for 
years with no ill effects.  We have some staff members who are shutting their 
machines down every night just because someone told them to do this years 
ago.  Most of these staff members are Attorneys, and waiting for their 
machines to come up is a real annoyance for them.  My advice to them has been 
to leave them up.  If the machine starts acting oddly, then restart it.  
Otherwise, leave it up.
  
I can’t see any problems that leaving a machine on continuously could cause 
that a restart would not correct, other than the wear and tear of running 
continuously.

Is there anything that I am overlooking?  These are state machines, so no one 
is running any nonstate-sanctioned software.

Thanks!

Colleen