Saving power is a critical component for your machine, especially if you are using portable devices like laptop/netbooks. This also ensure longevity of your laptops battery and is very useful if you are frequently working while traveling. MonitorES is an application that helps you save power by turning off your monitor when you lock your machine. At the same time MonitorES also pauses all the media and sets your IM status to away and restores it back once you are back. This not only makes your machine perform with power efficiency but also makes you a green citizen of this world leaving less carbon footprints.

Some of the features of MontorES are:

  • Automatically turnoff monitor.
  • Automatically pause running media programs.
  • Automatically IM away status message.
  • Mute master sound (XP)
  • Turn on monitor for remote machines.
  • Keyboard PAUSE key to pause/play running media programs(Gives single key control).
  • Custom away messages for IM
  • Support 16+ Media Players
  • Customizable options
  • Listen to your pause status
  • Very small executable file (44 KB)
  • No Installation Required / Portable Software

Following media players are supported:

  • Winamp, AIMP , WMP, WMP Classic , 1BY1 , iTunes , KMPlayer ,Media Monkey , GOM Player , AlShow, VLC Media Player (Via HTTP) , Spotify ,
  • Foobar2000, BSPlayer
  • QuickTime , XMPlay (Only Support with PAUSE)

Following are the supported IMs

  • Google Talk , Yahoo Messenger, Digsby , Miranda IM with custom away message

All in all this a very nice tool to have in order to save power and increase the lifetime of your machine’s battery.

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