Warm boot once a day for XP?

A buddy told me to give XP a warm boot once a day. I know that the power spike that arises from a cold boot is potentially harmful. What about possible ill effects of a WARM boot?
Has anyone else heard about the good that can come from this practice.
BTW, I plan to disable the Search funtion, which indexes itself during downtime (I never use it anyway),
Thank you!

 

well going by that turning on your computer is harmful to it, so a warm boot would be less harmful yes.

I think the idea is to reboot your computer at least once a day, which is probably a good idea to free up system resources after using a lot of apps.

Though i never found this nececary with XP it handles memory management much better than 9x builds.

Im not totally sure what the logic behind this in terms of damage to your system though, because really since you arnt actually turning anything off (short of periphrial devices like HD's and CD drive and mouse/keyboard) then you may as well have left it on..

 

Re: Dont pee on an electric fence is good advice also

You've read a lot of computer manuals... this is precisely the grammar they use.

IMX, places of business leave PCs on during the week and shut them down for weekends. I kind of use that as a rule of thumb for whether the PC should stay up or not. I suspect their motivation is power consumption, though, so if my PC is going to be busy downloading Linux distros while I'm gone a few days, I just leave it on and let it go.

 

Thank you guys! I generally leave mine on all the time, I even stay logged on. I have an APC (350 VA). I love the thing! The electicity in Grandma's basement is too "dirty" NOT to have a UPS, anyway. (I see the lights flicker every day!!!).
Just paranoid about protecting my first baby, I guess....