Bigmeandean
GixXxer
I never shut my PC down, lol, 3 years going strong. Prolly will :::Fail::: soon.
Gixxer not telling you how to run your computer but they do as a general rule need to be completely shut down for thirty seconds everyday! This has several reasons the main of which it cleans out a whole lot of unsaved unused garbage you computer collects while surfing the web. It will also help you in game believe it or not cause you wont have crap slowing you down. Now you may have other ways of accomplishing this but the easiest is a complete reboot!
Sorry Bigmeandean that is not true. You can run your computer like for days(like servers) and not having issues. The only thing that can happen are in Windows OS'ses are memory leaks that are still in the Windows Operating system today. That is why Unix/Linux works so much better with a better OS kernel.
I only reboot if my overclock system hicks up with those leaks and exploits need to be fixed by windows updates.
Overall:
It is very important to update and maintain you drivers, like said above, people keep on forgetting to update: system drivers like the chipset drivers, raid drivers and dx9 driver(which is the lower layer of DX10/11). Even the BIOS system can mean alot like to enable/disable the energy settings, apart from the Control Panel Energy savings.