First and foremost, benefits result from energy - and therefore cost savings. According to several researches, during nights or weekends an average of 20 % of all computers are not shut down at all. Lunch breaks or long absences from the desk not even mentioning.

Nowadays, with energy prices rising, both consumer and enterprises are looking for ways to effectively save energy - but without changing the familiar working style. When looking at a typical Computer’s work day, soon you find out that there are many times when it is running but not being used.

First to mention, Auto Shutdown Manager operates even if no users are logged on to the system in a so called full background - or service mode. All operations are supported in this mode including power up, power down, restart, standby, updates & patches, deployment and receiving of new settings, Time Rules, remote shutdown, wakeup, reboot etc.

Idle Timer – Definition, Detection and Analysis

What does “idle” mean and why is it so important?
In the sense of power management, idle means that a computer is powered on but it isn't running any productive or useful code.

Starting with Release 4, Auto Shutdown Manager supports Central Management via it’s build in Management Console.
The Management Console allows configuration, updates, management and deployment of settings and policies from one central place to the all network clients or specified client groups.
It also supports daily administration tasks such as remote wakeup, shutdown, logoff users and restart single PCs or selected PC groups. 

Remote shutdown and remote wake-up are obviously very useful functions that can make the administrator’s and also the end user's life easier. It is not only important in prevention of hazards such as virus attacks where some PCs or whole PC groups can be powered down immediately from one central place.  But also regular service and maintenance tasks such as patch management, data backups; overnight scans etc. can be done much more efficiently by powering required machines up and down on schedule or immediately on demand. 

Please see some Auto Shutdown Manager screenshots of the client and server components.

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Please find here some features listed by License type.

Auto Shutdown Manager can be used on clients incl. Windows XP, Windows Vista,Windows 7 and on Servers incl. Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows Home Server,  Windows 2008R2 - in 32 bit and 64 bit versions.