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Power Strips

Submitted by Shawn Levasseur on March 17, 2008 - 14:13.

At the desk where all my computer equipment is, I shut down all my peripherals (2 disk drives, a DVD burner, printer, monitor, powered USB Hub) All through the common off switch of the power strips.

Warning: You must still shut down (or put to sleep) your computer in a normal fashion, and only then shut down everything else. You risk damaging your equipment (especially disk drives) otherwise.

I do the same thing for where I charge all my gadgets and batteries.

Making it easy to shut numerous items of makes it more likely that you actually will do it.

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