April 23, 2007

Happy Earth Day: Change your WinXP settings

So it turns out that the standard Windows standby mode (known as standby S1) only saves about 10% in energy consumption. Microsoft has a second more efficient standby mode (standby to ram, known as S3 standby) that powers down everything except the ram. It uses a small fraction of full power with still essentially being instant on.

Here's how to enable it:

http://www.exoid.com/?p=29

http://www.yafla.com/dennisforbes/On-PC-Power-Saving-S1-to-S3-standby-dumppo-exe/On-PC-Power-Saving-S1-to-S3-standby-dumppo-exe.html


Posted 3 years, 7 months ago on April 23, 2007
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