Hope this belongs here>>>? if not please get rid of it.
Found the write-up below and tried the Hybernate which really worked when I woke it up by pressing the PWR switch.
Once when I woke it up by moving the mouse or touching a key the mouse behaviour and other things were affected & had to restart.
These days when we need to GET GREEN why are'nt these things embeded automatically into the BIOS, windows or whatever?.
I started doing this operation but need to go Start > Turn off computer > hold down Shift to change Stanby to Hypernate & click it. The PC appears shut down completly (25secs), and is quick to start where I left off.
Since win95 have been using the, one click shutdown, tiny utility "WinOff.exe" for quick stut down, & found it has another fanction "WinHib.exe" so I switched to that.
Let's all BE GREEN
Writ-up:-
But desktop PCs can also be configured to save power and, with an estimated billion PCs gobbling up watts around the world, should be. Not all PCs support all power-saving features, but it's well worth a trip to Control Panel, Power Options, to see what's available. Before you do that, however, check that Advanced Power Management is turned on in the PC's Bios.
Power Options offers several alternatives. Yovwill get independent settings forturning off the monitor and hard disksafter user-specified intervals. A typical CRT monitor can drop from a power consumption of 120W to around 5W_ and a LCD monitor from VOW to 4W.
so this is a considerable saving. Standby goes further, putting all possible devices in a slate of suspended animation, rather like the England football team. When you presb a key. the computer awakes, resuming the ;state it was in. At least, in theory. found in practice that sometimes it {reboots, which is less than optimal}. You'll also probably find that your Internet connection is no longer active, but there's another gotcha
if there's a power failure, then you will loose any unsaved data. However, if you let your PC go into standby without first saving ail open files, then >u obviously like to live dangerously, finally, although power consumption considerably reduced, you'll still be making a small, but significant, conlribution to melting the ice caps.
A better alternative if you want to save time restarting, is to use the hibernate feature, which you can turn on from the Hibernate tab of Power options. This saves a snapshot of the C's memory TO a file on the hard disk, then turns the machine off completely, when you press the power switch back on, XP will return to the pre-hibernation state. This can be a real time saver.
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