The Queensland Newsagents Federation recently published power saving advice which could inadvertently lead to newsagents to causing computer problems for themselves. Do not change power settings on your computer until you check with your computer supplier that doing so will not impact on your use of the system.
While the QNF recommended power saving options for a computer screen, a non computer literate newsagent made setting changes on the computer which caused system challenges.
Any supplier or association providing computer settings advice to newsagents should run this by newsagency software companies first.
Changing any power balance profile/s takes precedence over, any important tasks that, ‘separate/standalone’ software programs might need to accomplish say; clean up routines/backup or anything that happens behind the scenes that you don’t ever know of nor will obviously see.
It’s a real big ask to rely on one such method to save energy/power as advised above. Importantly, if you attempt this on a POS/FOH(front of house) terminal, you need a holiday…