No.  You can clear those out yourself with proper maintenance.

Christine Lisiecki said the following on Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:53:56AM -0500:
> But doesn't shutting down with some regularity help clear out all those temp
> files that can begin to slow down your computer?
>
> Christine
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Rossi [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 10:44 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Shutting off computer
>
>
> Some folks may tell you that keeping the drive spinning constantly is a
> bad thing.  Some folks may tell you that spinning it up and down every day
> or multiple times a day is even worse than keeping it spinning.
>
> If you look at some of the manufacturers specs, it just doesn't matter.
> Mean time to failure for a decent disk drive these days is longer than you
> will have that computer for.
>
> I'm sure people out there will have horror stories for you, but here is my
> data point.
>
> I never turn my machines off at work.  I take that back, I have shut them
> down maybe three or four times a year.  They are not set for power saving
> mode.  None of the people I work with ever shut down their machines.  We
> are talking about hundreds of drives spinning constantly for months at a
> time with shutdowns of minutes three or four times a year.  I don't know
> of any of my co-workers who have lost a drive.
>
> Statistically, the chance of you wearing out your drive just because it is
> spinning, is pretty low.  If you were doing massive amounts of data
> manipulation, file reading and writing 24 hours a day, I could see getting
> a failure once every year or two.  And that would be a head failure, not a
> spindle failure.
>
> So, don't worry about keeping your machine running.  You aren't going to
> wear it out just because the drive is spinning.
>
> Later.
>
>
>
>  On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, morey Worthington wrote:
>
> > Howdy all,
> > Is there a definitive answer on whether to shut off a computer when not in
> > use for a period of time, like 7-8 hours?
> > Basically I do not use it from 9 at night till 4 in the morning.. Also, is
> > there the same kind of answer about leaving the screen reader program
> loaded
> > if the computer is left on for that same period of time?
> > It seems that there is not a positive one way or the other.
> > Any input appreciated.
> > Thanks,
> > Morey
> >
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