PC Power Management is very important in light of the recent introduction of the carbon reduction commitment, and with most businesses only open 25% of the time, you need to ask your self if your business still uses most of your power for the other 75% of the time?

Ask yourself, what do you leave on in your business that pointlessly wastes energy out of working hours?

US, Car manufacture Ford has only recently decided to shut down its computers at night, and they have calculated that this will save the company over a million dollars each year. 

Most companies just don’t have the resources to check that all equipment has been turned off.  But a new program called PC Power Down that uses energy saving settings provided by Microsoft Windows could be the answer. 

A managed shutdown will occur each night and during the weekend period.  Additionally, computers will be awake to receive updates during pre-selected non-business hours, freeing up time previously used for updates throughout the working day.

Do you turn off your computer at the end of the day? 

Research has shown that desktop computers are the single biggest users of electricity in any office – and that 30% to 60% of this energy is wasted.  Both Windows and Mac PCs have power saving modes which you can easily use to set your computers to go to “sleep” after a specified amount of idle time.  You can also set PCs to turn off completely.   Look on your Help system for detailed instructions on how to set this up.  It is quite simple

However these options are limited, and still rely on human interaction and it can have other drawbacks such as disabling remote access and having to wait for computers to start back up again after they have powered down.

The PC Power Down software addresses the issues of PC Power Management in an easy manageable solution.

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