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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sita" data-source="post: 32197">If anything you're actually slowing down your machine by rebooting it so often. The reason is that the OS caches frequently used files throughout the day, to speed up the computer. Each time you reboot, those files get flushed out of memory and it has to read them back from the hard drive again.So while you're not hurting your computer, there's no reason at all to reboot it. Just let it sleep when not in use and that prevents excessive wear and tear of the screen, fans, hard drive, etc etc. The only time I reboot is when I install an update.Lastly, by turning it off at night, the crons (automatic maintainence scripts) never get the chance to run, and thus your system doesn't maintain itself.</blockquote>