Making your computer more energy smart not only makes environmental sense, but monetary sense as well. The less power your computer uses, the lower your energy bill. If tweaking the multitude of power settings you can configure throughout your computer is not your thing, then give Edison a look. Edison is a free application which allows you simply use a slider...

With energy prices rising and likely to continue that trend for the forseeable future, conserving energy not only makes financial sense, but environmental sense as well. To help with these tasks here are a couple of items which are very valuable:Smart Power Strip – These are really cool as a single outlet on this strip controls whether or not power is...

When I am not using my computer, I like to put it into standby mode. This helps save power and cuts down on the heat output when I am not using the computer. A shortcut (literally) that I use is a command line batch script to put the system into standby. From this Microsoft article, the command is simply: %windir%\System32\rundll32.exe...

If you have a media center (or any other) PC which utilizes a remote control or some other USB powered device, you may find that when you resume from standby the device needs to be “reset”. Having this annoyance is probably enough to set your computer to never go into standby. Instead of jumping to this ‘drastic’ measure, check out Slick...