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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Good heavens? What hardware/OS? I may be able to make suggestions to tweak that.
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It's a 10-yr old Gateway PC running Windows 2000, and I've already maxxed out the hardware as far as I can without outright replacement of the box (which, at this point, is pretty imminent...)
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
That's called "Wake on LAN", and is a BIOS Setting on modern devices.
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And very beyond my non-IT experience. I'd never seen it used before I started this job, and everyone else in the office thinks it's pretty cool (or spooky, depending on who you talk to). But mostly they just like the idea of being lazy and not having to worry about it.
As Nate suggested, though I was once behind the idea of saving the PC "wear and tear," I now believe saving the energy is more important. Even with an energy-star-rated device, running even in standby mode for more hours of the day than it is actually used just doesn't make sense these days. It's one of the reasons American culture has become THE most wasteful on the planet, and it's a trend that needs to be broken.