How To Enable System Standby

Casper

Casper

Silver Streak
Location
South West Coast Victoria, Australia.
We're running Windows XP and as our desktop pc is on all day have decided that we should look at saving some power, what with the high electricity bills.
My question is - if we do put the system on standby, for what amount of time is it recommended we select, and does it then come back on when the mouse is moved?
Probably a dumb question but not sure what is the right thing to do.:confused:
We used to have standby way back when we first got our PC over 12 years ago and with getting new PCs haven't used it for years, but with us not sitting at it all day we thought we may as well save a little power wherever we can.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I use the "stand by" function most of the time... only occasionally shutting down completely maybe once a week 'cos windows likes to do this from time to time, to keep its house in-order.

When I shut down with the "stand by" button, everything seems to power off with no noise coming from the computer box.
When I wish to resume, I press the "on" button on the box and I have a full working screen in about 10 seconds.
 
If the "stand by" function button isn't available, try this nice little piece of info from our "tallin", one of our clever people from the now defunct SHS forum in Oz.

Enable hibernation and Standby do this
by tallin - 10/10/07 10:19 PM
In Reply to: How do I enable Standby and Hibernation? by nstrange


i am running Windows XP SP2

Right click on a free spot on your desktop>
properties>
screensaver tab>
power>
hibernate tab>
enable hibernation>
advanced tab>
enable standby on the drop down menu at the bottom "When I press the power button on my computer" choose "standby".




 
terra said:
If the "stand by" function button isn't available, try this nice little piece of info from our "tallin", one of our clever people from the now defunct SHS forum in Oz.

Enable hibernation and Standby do this
by tallin - 10/10/07 10:19 PM
In Reply to: How do I enable Standby and Hibernation? by nstrange


i am running Windows XP SP2

Right click on a free spot on your desktop>
properties>
screensaver tab>
power>
hibernate tab>
enable hibernation>
advanced tab>
enable standby on the drop down menu at the bottom "When I press the power button on my computer" choose "standby".
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Thanks again Tezza.......have looked at that and am still deciding.....:cool:

 
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