Below are ten tips that you can use for saving energy on your pc and laptop.1. Adjust the lighting and contrast of the monitor
Maybe for people who are laymen or beginners in using computers, they rarely pay attention to their monitor settings. What is meant in this case is the level of lighting and contrast are set too high will be able to spend a lot of energy. And for that you should be able to adjust lighting and contrast, to adjust the lighting and contrast of these monitors use the button under the monitor.
2. Turn off monitor
Tip of the two is by turning off the monitor, especially the monitor type is the type of CRT (Cathode Ray Tubel), because these types of monitors consume more electricity. So, if you want to leave the PC in a long time, you should turn off your monitor.
You can also set its Windows to automatically went dead in some certain time, it can be done in a way, click "Control Panel-Options". In "Power Options Properties" click the tab "Power Schemes". Then click the arrow in the "Power Schemes" and select "Home / Office desk". Then select the desired time on the "Turn Off Monitor" and click "Apply" and "OK".
3. Turn off hard disks
Although we are not doing anything on our computer, but your data will always be read from the hard disk (by the operating system and some applications). For this reason, the hard disk hard disk continuously rotates and this course will spend energy. If you want to leave your PC in a long time, then you should turn off your PC's hard disk. In "Power Options Properties" then click the tab "Power Schmes". Click the arrows in the "Power Schemes" and select "Home / Off desk". Then click "Turn off hard disks" and select the time. Then click "Apply" and "Ok".
4. Turn off other equipment
Turn off other equipment such as, speakers, external modems, scanners, Zip drives and printers. Because the equipment was so spent a lot of energy. Often people leave the equipment switched on, even when we're out in a long time.
5. Hibernate Mode
This is the hibernate mode to shut down the facility, but does not close or shut down applications that are opened by us earlier. This can be done by Mode "Hibernate". With this mode, the contents of main memory (RAM) is stored in the hard disk. How to do the hibernate mode is as follows, on "Power Options" tab click "Hibernate". Then click the box near "Enable Hibernation". Click also on "Advanced" tab. In the section "When I press the power button and then click the arrow and then click" Hibernate ". Click "Apply" and "Ok". After that press the button "Power" on your computer. Hibernate mode is functioning, press the "Power" once again, your computer will turn on and will automatically open the application you have open earlier.
6. Standby Mode
In order to save energy, we recommend setting the monitor and hard disks are in the lowest part on standby mode. If you want to leave the PC for a while, you should activate the standby mode. But you should know is, when the active standby mode data are not you save may be corrupted or lost if your PC is damaged. We recommend that you first save your data or documents before you activate this standby mode. Standby mode can be done in a way, click the "Start-Turn Off computer" then click "stanby".
7. Use UPS
Always use a UPS, because this tool can help rescue data or shut down during a blackout. To manage the UPS equipment and configure the appliance is "Power Option Properties" and select the UPS tab. Part of status in the UPS tab displays the estimated number of minutes that can be supported by UPS to your PC. In fact many ways to configure the UPS, but this depends on the model and used the UPS capacity.
8. Laptop Batteries
If your laptop battery to charge, make sure that his charge process is complete. Because the process of a charge that carried a half-half and then resumed, it was actually going to spend a lot of energy. If you want to travel, you should always take the battery tambaha. To save battery consumption. You can use Hibernate features / Suspended or use the electric socket that is connected to an outlet.
9. USB Port
If when you menggunaka laptop and then you put one into the USB port on your laptop, you should immediately be released when it's finished it. Because the equipment is still stuck in the USB port, it can also spend energy on your PC or laptop. Should remove the equipment when pemakainnya thats enough.
10. Energy Consumption Scheme Laptops
Usually laptop manufacturers also include power management features and software. This software is very useful for the consumer laptop, because this software is able to control the use of batteries and electric power is being used. In this software there are several options that can be used to find out the hard disk and loads of other energy is being used by a laptop. Of them know the processor speed or monitor the proper lighting to be able to save the battery. This software can be a supervisor at the same time for us to use laptops.
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