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Apr 13

Give Your Computer Some ZZZs

Electricity, Lifestyle
Written by laurel - who has written 53 posts on Green Thinking Blog.

I read in Women’s Health that the EPA says setting your computer to automatically switch to sleep mode can reduce your household electric bill up to $75 a year. Scott Herring of support.com recommends fully closing programs that always search for updates (for example, iTunes and spyware) and turn off screen savers. Support.com even offers a free Green Computer service.

Watch their YouTube video on “How to Green Your Computer.”

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2 Responses to “Give Your Computer Some ZZZs”

  1. b79 Says:
    April 17th, 2008 at 1:54 pm

    Another great way of going green for PCs is to look into a company called Userful. They can turn one ordinary PC box into ten workstations with their linux created desktop software. See for yourself - http://www.userful.com

  2. laurel Says:
    April 17th, 2008 at 2:41 pm

    Thanks for that tip! I’ll definitely check it out.

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