Turn your monitor off automatically

You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of either the Administrators or Power Users group in order to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings might also prevent you from completing this procedure.

By using Power Options in Control Panel, you can adjust any power management option that your computer's unique hardware configuration supports. Because these options may vary widely from computer to computer, the options described may differ from what you see. Power Options automatically detects what is available on your computer and shows you only the options that you can control.

If Turn off monitor is not available, your monitor does not support this feature.

To change the elapsed time before your monitor automatically turns off

• click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Power Options.

• In Turn off monitor, click the arrow, and select the time you want after which monitor turn off automatically .

• Click the OK button.

• To turn on the monitor again just press any key or move your mouse.

Use Hibernate instead of Shutdown to save time

Hibernate is great because it saves the status of your Windows XP session (all the programs and documents you have open) to the hard drive, so it can automatically restore it the next time you power up. The first step to making a Hibernate shortcut is to make sure you have Hibernate turned on.

Go to the Control panel then click Performance and maintenance.

Next, choose Power options, and select the hibernate tab.

Finally, make sure Enable hibernation is checked.

Please note that hibernate will make a file in your root drive and take space equal to you RAM size. make sure you have enough free disk space in your root drive (a root drive is a partition where you have installed the windows e.g C:\) before enabling it.

Now to actually make the shortcut

right click your desktop and choose New Shortcut.

Next, type this case-sensitive command into the dialog box Code:

rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState Hibernate

click next. Give the shortcut a name like Hibernate and click finish.

From now on all you need to do to enter hibernation is double click the shortcut.

Alos you can put this shortcut to Windows task scheduler so that system Hibernate can be achived at a particular time automatically.