I love this utility.. the dim function is great.. but shame I couldn’t register to knock off the trial version

#76, your comments, apart from being incorrect, completely lack common sense.

This seems to be a program for people who do not know very much about computers, since everything it claims to do can be done within the XP OS, or through the BIOS. The only thing it seems to offer is the volume control thing, but there is a plugin for Winamp that does exactly the same thing, except one does not have to shut down the ‘puter to do it.

I have a question. Why would anyone bother shutting down thier computer?

Leaving a computer on does absolutely nothing to the computer, provided one has sufficient control over heat dissipation. On the other hand, turning a computer off and on is the worst thing you can do to your power supply, outside of letting it overheat.

While it costs me about $500 or so a year to keep the computer running 24/7, compare that to the price of having to replace a $300 motherboard, $400 power supply, or (shudder) $1,500 processor (and the motherboard I am presently using has two of ‘em). And, that does not include the huge tech fees most people whould have to add on.

I _DO_ turn off the monitors (now there is some serious power consumption), but that is easily done through the screensaver power utility built in to Windows.

Also, depending on whether your power supply is large enough you can do serious damage to various chips by cycling power as the power supply voltages may vary signficantly, dipping and rising into voltages and frequencies that WILL damage your motherboard and very-costly-to-replace processor chips.

I didn’t think I’d need it. I tried it. It worked. I’m not sure how to rate it, maybe 6 mostly due to usefulness. It does what it says, but I normally use the packaged ‘sleep’ or shutdown.

and a free antivirus avast antivirus is free for personal use and finds things that most other antivirus apps miss, it protects my windows and my linux boxes :)