This is the first public beta of Version 1.1 of the Powerdown energy saving application.Please be aware that this is a beta version of the product. Although it has been rigourously tested beta software is not of final release quality and may cause your computer to behave unexpectedly. We do not recommend that you install beta software on production systems. You will need to uninstall any existing versions of Powerdown before installing this beta release.
This release contains significant improvement over version 1.0, including:
- System wide enforcement of operating system power saving features, via Group Policy or Powerdown policy files, for all Windows operating systems
- Optimisation of operating system power saving features for maximum energy and cost savings
- Automatically detects if user is still using the computer when a shutdown is scheduled; if so, Powerdown automatically postpones the shutdown
- Policy File Editor utility to simplify the creation of Powerdown policy files (not included in beta release)
- Redesigned user interface
- Integrated management via Group Policy allows centralised management and enforcement of power saving policies across the organisation
- Now works on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008
- Reliability and performance enhancements
We welcome any feedback you have on the product. Please post any bug reports, issues or suggestions to the relevant Powerdown forum and we will feed these in to the product where possible as we move towards a final release. Please note that due to the increasing level of spam the Codefounders forums no longer accept anonymous posts. You will need to sign up for a forums account to leave any feedback on the Powerdown product.
On behalf of the Codefounders team, we'd like to thank you for taking the time to evaluate and feedback on this product.