1. Adjust the lighting and contrast of the monitor may be a lay person or novice in using computers, they rarely consider their monitor settings. What is meant in this case is the level of illumination and contrast set too high will be able to spend a lot of energy. So for that you should be able to adjust the lighting and contrast, to adjust the lighting and contrast these monitors use the button under the monitor.
2. second tip is to turn off the monitor, especially the type of monitor 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 setting your Windows to automatically direct dying within a 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 on 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 disk while we’re 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 to hard disk constantly spinning and of course it will use up 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 arrow on 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 such as turn off other equipment, speakers, external modems, scanners, Zip drives and printers. Because the equipment was to spend a lot of energy. Often, people leave the equipment is switched on, even when we’re out for a long time.
5. Hibernate mode is hibernate mode for the facility shut down, but not close or kill the application that we are open earlier. This can be done by Mode “Hibernate”. In this mode, the contents of main memory (RAM) is stored in the hard disk. How to make hibernate mode is as follows, on “Power Options” tab click “Hibernate”. Then click the box near “Enable Hibernation”. Click also on the tab “Advanced”. 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 working, press the “Power” once again, your computer will be running 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 in 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 on “standby”.
7. Use Use UPS UPS is always a tool, because this tool can help rescue data or shut down during power off. To manage the UPS equipment and configure the tool “Power Option Properties” and select the UPS tab. Section status in the UPS tab displays the approximate 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. If your laptop battery charge laptop battery, make sure his charge process is complete. Because the charge is done by halves and then resumed, it instead will spend a lot of energy. If you want to travel, you should always take addition battery. To save battery consumption. You can use Hibernate features / Suspended or use an electric socket that is connected to the outlet.
9. If the USB port when you use laptop and then you put one into the USB port on the laptop, it’s best when it’s finished just released immediately. Because the equipment is still stuck in the USB port, it also can spend energy on your PC or laptop. Should remove the device when take thats enough.
10. Energy Use Laptop Scheme Usually laptop manufacturers also include features and power management software. This software is very useful for the consumer laptop, because this software can adjust the battery and electric power are used. In this software there are several options that can be used to load the hard disk and other energy being used by the laptop. Among them knowing the speed of processors or the right lighting for the monitor can save battery life. This software can be a supervisor at the same time for us to use laptops.
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