Shutting Down Windows 2000

[munruss]

I'm a Network Administrator in a company of about 110 clients. My Windows 2000 domain consists of Windows 2000 & XP clients. I had a brief discussion with my coworker about having the clients power down their machines daily to improve computer performance. He states that keeping the machines on and running is more efficient because Windows 2000 runs defrags and other pc maintenance programs in the background. I don't know if this is true, but what do you guys think?

 

[spherrod]

I didn't know that Windows 2000 (I don't think it does BTW) defrags and performs maintenance operations itself unless specific software has been installed and scheduled to do it. We recommend people leave their PC's on 24/7 so that we can apply any patches as often as necessary to all machines, in addition we schedule defrags for each machine at a specific time

 

[munruss]

well, i want to see what others do.

 

[mikecel79]

Originally posted by: munruss
I'm a Network Administrator in a company of about 110 clients. My Windows 2000 domain consists of Windows 2000 & XP clients. I had a brief discussion with my coworker about having the clients power down their machines daily to improve computer performance. He states that keeping the machines on and running is more efficient because Windows 2000 runs defrags and other pc maintenance programs in the background. I don't know if this is true, but what do you guys think?

I think he has this confused with Windows XP. Win2k does not do this. However as spherrod said we have everyone leave machines on 24/7 so that we can apply patches.