hello... figured i'd dump in my $0.02...
at home, everything (2 windows 2000 workstations, 1 windows 2000 server) is always on... unless being worked on.
at my old work (before layoffs
)... of course the servers are always on, but what i recommended to the users in the company was to reboot when they left for the day (m-f) and to shut down for when they were gone for the weekend.
in other words... the workstation is off. monday morning they would turn it on. when they left for the day they would choose to restart so when they got there the next morning it was ready to go. then on friday, they would choose shut down...
BTW- those machines were using windows 95.