Energy Management
UNITE: Power down for the Planet
Switch off any appliances when not in use:
When you're not using items such as TVs, computers, chargers and games consoles you can substantially reduce your energy consumption by making sure everything is switched off.
Turn off heating and lighting if staying away:
When you leave your room you can reduce energy consumption by making sure all the lights are switched off and if staying away turn the heaters off as well.
Computer Power Management: Recommended settings
When enabled, power management places your monitor and computer into a low-power sleep mode after a period of inactivity. A simple touch of the mouse or keyboard wakes the computer and monitor in seconds.
The use of power management can reduce energy consumption and prolong the battery life of laptop and PCs.
To improve the power efficiency of your PC, we recommend the following power management settings:
4 Monitor/display sleep: Turn off after 15 minutes (or less)
4 System standby/sleep: After 30 minutes (or less). See detailed instructions for setting power management by operating system below.
4 Note: Windows NT 4.0 Workstation operating system does not support monitor power management. EZ Wizard and manual enablement will not work for a computer running Windows NT.
Instructions for manually enabling power management
4 Windows 7
4 Windows Vista
4 Windows 2000/XP
4 Windows 98
4 Windows 95
4 Windows ME
4 Mac OS 9
4 Mac OS X