Quick tip: Save on electricity with Windows 7

Published on October 3, 2009 By Draginol In Personal Computing

One of the things that I’m surprised isn’t offered up on the desktop version of Windows 7 more easily is telling the PC to go to sleep after N minutes.

A high end PC can eat up quite a bit of power if left on 24/7 – which I do.

But over the last couple of versions, Windows has gotten pretty good at coming out of sleep mode really well.

Below is step by step on how to set up sleep mode on Windows 7.

Comments

eetmorsqrls

on Oct 03, 2009

I've had an issue with Win7 RC1 sleep mode, wonder if it's fixed with win7. my computer will only go to sleep like 50% of the time, it will start to but then come back online. anyone else had this problem and if so is it fixed in RTM?

nevermind, found a nice article on how to fix it: http://www.michaelaulia.com/blogs/fix-windows-vista7-sleep-mode-from-waking-up-by-itself.html

Wolfanoz

on Oct 03, 2009

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Wolfanoz

on Oct 03, 2009

Sorry, what I meant to say was.... turning on C1E and T1 throttling in BIOS as well as Speedstep (or AMD equivalent) makes a big difference in energy savings.

Neilo

on Oct 03, 2009

Posting to bookmark thread. A handy tip i will need in the coming months..(still on Vista)

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