[Tiwaz]

Originally Posted by pest

Stand by always screwed my pc up too. I disable it. If you are worried about energy use, set your screen saver to blank screen and a short time span - 5 minutes or less.

I have it configured this way as well, and I have set the time to turn the monitor off to 20 minutes. Hard disks to 1 hour.

I think the computer 'box' doesn't uses that much energy this way. If I leave for several hours, I shut down the system. No need to have it running when I'm not there and am not using it (e.g. downloading things).