@ridingthewind
Calm Down. This is geared toward both end users and organizations. If you went to http://www.poweritdown.org/ you would see it says this
"Just by turning off your computer, monitor and printer ? and any other peripherals ? when you leave work for the day, you can help save tens of thousands of costly kilowatt hours."
You would be surprised on how many people leave their computers on at home and work all the time. I know that the 2700+ Workstations I manage most of them are left on every day. As part of the "Going Green" initiative in Education (at least in my area) I use our system imaging and management program (Altiris CMS) to power down powered on workstations every day. I actually started doing this about 8 - 9 years ago when I started working for the district and we used Ghost to image our computers. Just sending the shutdown command to computers every afternoon and evening. It worked OK but it forced everyone off regardless. With Altiris CMS I can send a power down command and the user gets prompted and has 10 minutes to respond to the prompt where they can agree to it or extend it up to 2 hours. If no reply then the computer goes down. I repeat this task a couple times in the evening applied to "active" computers to make sure at least the vast majority of them are off.
Personally I shut my work computer down every night and manually set my home computer to sleep when I know I am not going to use it for a while or it is not running any tasks.
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