This question is relevant if you think about energy saving. Switch on and off frequently a PC may bring damages to the computer’s hard disk or the power supply. The best for your computer is keeping it on while you think you may need it. Reducing the on/off cycles is better for your computer health. However, keeping your PC fully on may be energy consuming.
If leaving a computer on all the time doesn’t sound well to you, think about an automatic way to bring it to one of the best states for energy saving: shutdown or stand-by.
Shutdown
Manually, you can do it by clicking your Windows start button and after, in the start menu, clicking the link with the same name: shutdown. What happens then? Your computer will start shutting down every program you may have running1 and then switches off almost all its hardware2. This is the best state for energy saving. However, this is the most time consuming either for the shutting down phase and the resume one. If this longer time for start/stop is not relevant for you, take shutdown as your solution.
Automatically, you may use your Windows scheduler application (Scheduled Tasks) and type into the run field a command like
C:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe [-parameters]
according to instructions you may have a look at here. This Windows application, Scheduled Tasks, give you many options including the precise hour you want to run a shutdown on your computer. Like this, you can go to bed and Windows will take care of your energy cost reduction.
Stand-by
Manually, you can do it by clicking your Windows start button and after, in the start menu, clicking the link with the same name: stand-by3. What happens then? Your computer will not shut down any running
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