What are the Top 10 ways to go green with your PC??

When it comes to the environment, one of the first places most offices can improve is the giant pile of discarded paper by the network printer. Aside from obvious things you can do on your own—like printing duplex, printing to PDF, previewing before printing, and not printing hundreds of copies of an email forward to plaster around the office—there are a few other tools you can use to minimize wasting paper and ink when printing.

Obviously, computers require electricity to run, so shutting down, sleeping, or hibernating your computer when you're not using it conserves energy. Every modern operating system has its own settings for conserving power, so the first thing you should do—if you haven't already—is open the power settings of your computer and set them for optimal energy use.

 Set your computer to put your monitor to sleep, spin down your hard drives, and put your computer to sleep when you're not using it.

Now that you've put good energy practices into use on your PC, it's time to move onto the power-hungry peripherals you've got plugged into it. Whenever possible, you want to turn off any peripheral when you're not using it—like your printer or monitor.

Likewise, you should be aware of any gear in your computing setup that draws standby power (a.k.a., vampire power) even when you've turned off the device in question. Vampires commonly stand out as large, unsightly AC adapters.

Adopt paperless offices...as much as possible use the computer networking technology as the means of communication between offices and personnel. On the other hand, we need to adopt the concept of "teleworker" wherein we don't need to go to our offices to use PCs but just stay in our homes. With this, great reduction of carbon footprints would be attained as we don't need to use land transportation modes, which are the sources of carbon monoxide emissions.

I feel to use a Solar panel for a Individual System is the best way to go green with a PC..

the going Green feel can not be enjoyed without a Energy savings thru all other ways such as Switching Off screen when not in Use and Unnecessary Paper printing etc.....

Switching off the systems and all that is fine...but unless the system is not properly kept in a cool condition..it is bound to use more and more energy...so according to me..cooling is the first thing...to be taken care of

use your ups to save power don't use to charge it while it is charged just used it and save power & make ur computer green

All the prospective buyers must look for Energy saver stars while buying a new computer i.e. desktop or server

Also read through various documentations available to find out which is the cheapest way to cater to your need, say go for low end GHZ for home use and also learn more about power saving options

If you save power then you will definately cut down your power expences...

If you are a daily user make sure you clean your cpu every two weeks. Because of dust cpu gets heated and the processor needs to switch on the fan. In this way you can save power and go green.

It's one thing to know your computer sucks down a lot of energy every month, but actual power usage numbers drives the point home. Windows can install previously mentioned LocalCooling, an tool that both helps you tweak your Windows power saving settings and visualize the amount of power your computer consumes.

Some users reported inaccurate measures with the app when we first posted about it, but the well-intentioned LocalCooling team continues in their efforts to improve the application and help you save energy and visualize the impact of your energy-saving.

Some PCs cannot be shut down on daily basis. Monitors can always be shut down when eve not in use.

Make regular distunce between you and your PC while operating it. This is also effective tool, as per me.