Description
With rising energy prices and the threat of global warming, everyone could stand to conserve energy.
Unfortunately, because of scheduled anti-virus, backup, and similar programs, many businesses and home users leave their computers on full time, paying for energy they don't really need.
Now you can save on electricity and reduce greenhouse gasses without compromising your computer's scheduled processes. Just use this software to schedule a time for your computer to shut down, hibernate, or go into standby.
You can also easily prevent scheduled events from running if you know you will need your computer to be on for a longer than usual amount of time, such as for remote access during vacations.
For more information on why you should schedule your computer to shut down or enter sleep mode, see: http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/computers.html. Here are some highlights from that website:
Q: I heard it takes more electricity to turn a computer on every day than to leave it running, right?
A: This is incorrect. It doesn't take any extra electricity to start up a computer.
Q: I heard that it puts extra stress on computers to shut them down every day, is that true?
A: You're not going to wear out your computers prematurely by cycling them off/on overnight and on weekends, or even ten times a day.
Q: How much could I really save by turning off my computer each night? Isn't it negligible?
A: No. Let's say you have a big high-end computer with a gaming-level graphics card and CRT monitor, and you leave them on 24/7. That's about 330 watts x 24 hours x 365 days/yr = 2,890,800 watt-hours, or 2891 kilowatt-hours. If you're paying $0.14 per kWh, you're paying $405 a year to run your computer.
Let's try a different example: You have a computer that's less of an energy hog which uses about 105 watts, and you're smart enough to turn it off when you're not using it. You use it for two hours a day, five days a week. That's ten hours a week, or 520 hours a year. So your 105 watts times 520 hours = 54,600 watt-hours. Divide by 1000 and you have 55 kilowatt-hours (kWh). If you're paying 10¢ per kilowatt-hour, then you're paying $5.50 a year to run your computer. That's a difference of almost $400 a year!
Features
- Schedule Hibernation, Shut Down, Restart, Stand by and Log Off events.
- Quickly create temporary items like "Shut Down in 1 hour"
- Schedules can be run daily, weekly on certain days of the week, or monthly on certain days
- Can be used in multiple languages
- Can be set up so that other important programs like anti-virus scans and backup programs can run to completion before your computer is shut down for the day or weekend.
- Allows easy access to power scheduling features of windows, such as monitor shutdown.
- Saves on energy bills and reduces greenhouse gasses
- Compliments our backup software, Remote Backup Magic, extremely well
Languages
English, French, German, Spanish
Demo
The demo version is fully functional and can be used for 15 days.
Operating Systems
Win 9x/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7
Additional Requirements
Hibernation is not available on all computers and depends on your operating system.
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