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Activate your computer's power management settings automatically by using one of these free applications.



Energy Savings Calculators

Calculate the energy you could save by turning on the power management features on your computer.

  • Use 'Faronics' ROI Calculator to determine potential energy and financial savings from using computer power management tools.

 
Power management tools

The Environmental Protection Agency's EZ Wizard helps easily enable and optimize power management settings for your monitor and computer on systems running Windows 2000 or Windows XP.


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The Environmental Protection Agency's EZ GPO tool provides Group Policy Objects for centrally configuring power management settings.


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Verdiem’s Edison is a free energy monitoring application that allows eco-conscious consumers to more actively control their PC’s energy consumption – and subsequently reduce their household’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Runs on Windows Vista and Windows XP (Service Pack 2).


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HP Power To Change Widget

The HP Power To Change widget tracks the cumulative energy savings associated with participants turning off idle PCs when not in use. With the widget and the interactive Power To Change Web site, computer users worldwide can watch and explore the energy savings the campaign generates through the power of behavioral changes across individual and global users.

 

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The Google Desktop Energy Saver Gadget

The Google Desktop Energy Saver gadget enables and optimizes power management settings for your monitor, hard drive and computer on systems running Windows XP or Vista. The gadget also shows how much energy you've saved, and how much energy everyone who's using the gadget has collectively saved. Requires Google Desktop 5 or above.

 

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Did you know?

“By 2010, about half of the Forbes Global 2000 companies will spend more on energy than on computing hardware such as PCs and servers.”5

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Verdiem’s Edison is a free energy monitoring application that allows eco-conscious consumers to more actively control their PC’s energy consumption – and subsequently reduce their household’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Runs on Windows Vista and Windows XP (Service Pack 2).

Get Edison >>