Edison – A Simple Way to Manage Your PC Power Settings and Help Save Electricity
Posted by: Barry Cleave in Freeware, tags: Climate Change, Energy Saving, Gadgets, Greenhouse Gas, Independant Review, Independent Review, Power Saving, Pro Reviewer, Utilities, Windows, WIndows Vista, Windows XPWhat’s This About?
Edison is a program that allows you to change and save the standard windows power options in a simple interface for two different times “Work” and “Other”. It also has a simple scheduling option to switch between the two on a once per day basis.
Why Would You Want It?
You can easily change the standard Windows Power Options Properties by selecting Power Options in Control Panel as the last post Windows Power Schemes - Set and Forget to Reduce Your Electricity Bill:
As you can see from the post under the Windows Power Options Properties - Power Schemes tab you can change all the options which are more than in Edison, you can also save as many different power schemes as you want. The advantage of Edison lies in the ability to automatically schedule two different power schemes to suit your pattern of use.
What Does It Do - The Essentials?
Summary:
- Quick and Simple Setting of 2 Power schemes
- Schedule Switching between the schemes once per day
- Helps save power for desktop PCs
Pros: What’s Good?
Features & Benefits
- Freeware
- See estimated savings
Cons:What’s Not So Good?
- Register to Activate
- Single registration/activation per installation*
- Can’t use without activation (therefore need an active Internet connection )
- Needs .NET 2.0 installed
* This is an unnecessary pain and will put people off.
More About What it Does in Detail:
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October 16th, 2008 at 3:33 am - Edit
I tried this program before and didn’t notice much of a difference in power. I guess it all depends on what kind of desktop setups people have.
November 12th, 2008 at 12:56 am - Edit
Nice, I have been looking for a software like this. I usually forget to shut down my laptop when I go to sleep.
November 16th, 2008 at 10:19 pm - Edit
It will useful for me, I usually forget to shut down my laptop when I go to sleep.
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December 10th, 2008 at 11:51 am - Edit
We have ever wanted a tool that can do almost everything for us.
December 29th, 2008 at 9:56 am - Edit
it lights your PC too.. its Edison.
January 5th, 2009 at 9:55 am - Edit
Its good, if it saves power.
February 27th, 2009 at 4:20 pm - Edit
Anything that can have a positive effect on the environment and in todays economy a positive effect on the contents of my wallet are worth looking at carefully.
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March 27th, 2009 at 3:22 pm - Edit
As long as it saves energy and still maintains manages your CPU power. Then it will go a long way.
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:21 am - Edit
great… saves energy. this is usefull for me because when i tired, i forgot to turn of my notebook