Windows power save

Hibernate your PC !

SHUTDOWN.EXE (Original site of Andrej Budja at 21.06.2004)

Here is how:

-download SHUTDOWN.EXE (This is a copy in my server).
-Start + Control Panel + Scheduled Tasks
-Add scheduled task
-Browse and find this SHUTDOWN.EXE
-Set 'Perform this task Daily'
-select the time and day you want this task to start
-Enter the name and password of a user.
-Remember to mark 'Open advanced properties for this task, when I click Finish'
-Remember to add parameter '-h' to the last properties window
-check also the Schedule and Settings pages

You can check and change the parameters selecting Start + Control Panel + Scheduled Tasks.

1. Turn off your computer at night and when you are not using it for several hours.

2. Turn off your monitor when you are not using your computer for 15 minutes or longer.

3. Enable the Power Management feature for your monitor (see below on how to get instructions).

4. If you buy a new computer, consider a laptop. Laptops use only 1/4 the energy of a desktop*.

5. If you buy a new monitor, consider a flat screen. They use only 1/3 the energy*.

Most PCs today support six distinct power modes, or "sleep states," commonly 
defined as S0 through S5.
S1, S2, and S3 all are low-power, energy-saving states from which the PC can be
awakened by jiggling the mouse or tapping a key. (Other external events, such
as a special kind of LAN packet or an inbound modem call, also can trigger a
wake-up, depending on how the system is set up.) When the PC awakens, it picks
up from where it left off when the low-power mode kicked in--the same files
will be open, the same apps will be running, etc.
S0 as "sleep state zero," or "sleep zero"; in other words, no sleep at all.
S1 is the simplest energy-saving state, often used in older systems whose
drivers or hardware won't behave well with more sophisticated levels of power
management. A system at the S1 power level simply shuts down the hard drive(s)
and monitor, but leaves everything else running normally. S1 is called sleep or standby.
S2 offers greater power savings because it not only powers down the monitor and
drives, it also cuts power to the CPU and its cache. Confusingly, this level also is 
sometimes called sleep or standby.
S3 is a deeper power-savings mode that shuts down almost everything except for
the barest trickle of power needed to keep the contents of RAM from fading away
and to listen for a wake-up action. In a way, you can think of S3 as a "suspend
to RAM" state. In fact, many vendors do refer to S3 as "suspend" mode, but
others (alas) may call it standby, sleep, instant on, on now, and the like. 
S4 is fundamentally different from levels S1 to S3. It's hibernation,
where the system stops all activity, just as if you had shut it off. But S4 is
also different from the simple power-off of level S5 because, before powering
down, the S4 hibernation system writes the contents of RAM and some CPU
settings to a special file on your hard drive
S5 is the highest power-savings mode, representing a complete power-off such 
as that achieved by a shut down command.

The current ACPI general specification (version 2.0) is only about 2 years old, and 
it's still evolving. The last revision--2.0a--was released in March -03

 Most newer systems, add-on devices, and operating systems support the current 
ACPI spec and thus offer excellent power control. They can, for example, shut down 
any of several low-power or power-off modes, then resume operation without difficulty.

Older systems may not handle power-management tasks so gracefully, and here's 
why: ACPI replaced an older, less-versatile Advanced Power Management spec, which 
basically just put the BIOS in control of power management. This is fundamentally 
different from ACPI, so hardware and software designed for APM may not work well with 
ACPI, and vice versa

For several years in the mid- to late 1990s, APM and ACPI were both in wide play. As a 
result, it was not at all uncommon for a given system to have an operating system, 
a system BIOS, and hardware drivers that might be designed either for different 
power-management standards or different versions of the same standard.

If your system supports the current ACPI spec, you may be able to attain very high 
levels of energy savings by either or both of two methods: First, see what 
operating-system-level power-management options are available to you.

Your PC's BIOS may also offer secondary adjustments. For example, some BIOS setup 
utilities let you assign a default ACPI power setting to be used whenever the operating 
system calls for a sleep mode.

* Windows 95 has minimal support, and therefore doesn't pose much of a problem.
* Windows 98 has more support, but it typically doesn't work very well.
* Windows Me has much improved APM support over Windows 98, although occasionally you'll run into an incompatability.
* Windows 2000 and Windows XP will support APM very well, as long as the correct HAL (hardware abstraction layer) is installed.

Regardless of your OS, you should check your system BIOS to see if APM is properly enabled and configured:

* Enter your computer's BIOS setup (press DEL or ESC or something like that just after turning on your system, and your computer is counting through your memory). Contact your computer's manufacuter or refer to your computer's documentation for details specific to your computer.
* Turn the main APM option to Enable or On.
* Important: Set all the lesser APM-related options (such as hard disk timouts and the monitoring of ports) to disable or off. This ensures that Windows is in control of all the APM options, and your BIOS settings don't interfere or conflict with your Windows APM preferences.

Then, set your power-saving preferences in Windows:

* Double-click the Power Management icon (called Power or Power Options in some versions of Windows) in Control Panel. If it isn't there, your computer isn't properly set up - see above.
* Choose the options that best suit your needs, and click Ok when you're done.