Did you know that most people leave their desktop computers on throughout the day and even through the night, without setting their computers to go into a sleep mode, which saves electricity. Using the deep sleep mode powers down the hard drive and the PC uses only 5 percent of its normal energy consumption. Depending on local power costs and the kind of PCs in use, your household electricity bills could be reduced by $20 to $95 a year for each PC using new tools to manage your PC’s power consumption and more use of settings to put PCs into deep sleep after a few minutes of not making any keystrokes.
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