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In the big scheme, the power used by one computer may not be much....but if it was turned on at 10am (those admin logs come in handy) and she left for Uni by 11 and I come home at 5pm with the computer still on...it seems like a hell of a waste energy. Not just the computer though, lights left on. One day the heater was left on (she reckoned it was cold in the morning, ie. about 19 in the house). She would have left by lunch time and I came home to a stinking hot house of 26 degrees! Mind you it was 30 outside. Then I have to pay for the air conditioning to try to get the temperature down to a reasonable temperature by bed time, and opening the doors wouldn't help! Needless to say, I turned the lock on! Problem is you can't turn it on at all without entering the PIN. I would have thought you could just not change the setting, then I would just set it to 20 and leave it.
Oh, the task manager is processes running with no applications. We wore one computer out as it took 30 minutes to get to the login because it took so long for all the viruses to start up. We had someone remove them once and they got over a thousand of all varieties. Within a month most of them were back...
So now I do all my internet stuff on my computer and never bother to scan hers....not my problem any more. Mine runs much faster...except Nortons kicks in after a few minutes and takes all the CPU time...really must give it the flick. She doesn't know we have internet access on my computer and laptop, and she doesn't know the password either!
Starting up applications and turning off the computer can cause an "improper shutdown" which makes Windows do a scan disk at startup...which annoys the hell out of HER (revenge), but it doesn't seem to happen often. I might have a look at the power management and see if I can have it turn itself off after an hour or so of inactivity.
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