[Magdalen] Kicking and Screaming.

[Grace Cangialosi]

Yeah, I have *never* kept my computer on all the time. In fact, I usually turn it off every time I finish something and leave the room. Hasn't seemed to hurt anything.

> On Apr 11, 2016, at 6:52 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a password on my computers.  Nobody but me gets in.  If it was in
> sleep mode, doesn't matter. Nobody can start or wake it up but me.  The
> password process is just a couple of seconds.
> 
> I have also been advised by the individual servicing my PC that it is
> advised that you shut it down when not using it. This is opposite of the
> wonderful word of mouth I had always gone by.  Apparently just one more
> instance in what the stuff everybody knows (keep your computer on all the
> time. It's better for it) is not only wrong, but diametrically wrong.  It's
> apparently the worst thing you can do.
> 
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
> 
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Mine's at the top of the left column, above the "Most Used" list. My
>> name and picture appear to have something to do with my Windows
>> account. Not sure why they'd put the Lock function there other than
>> that the password will be the one that unlocks my Windows account. So
>> maybe if you're not signed into a Windows account (perhaps this is not
>> necessary...for me it is, because it signs me into our company
>> network), you would use Sleep instead and configure it to require a
>> password to wake up.
>> 
>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
>> <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> In a message dated 4/11/2016 12:23:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>>> scottknitter at gmail.com writes:
>>> 
>>> Just  found the Lock option...click the Windows button (bottom left),
>>> then click  your name/photo at the top of the pop-up menu. Lock is one
>>> of the items  that then appears.  Obscure!>>>>>>>>>
>>> 
>>> Of course I can click on the Windows button at the left corner of the
>>> screen,  but there is no name/photo that appears with a pop-up  menu.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> David Strang.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Scott R. Knitter
>> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>>