Uptime Monitor

Keeping a computer active indefinitely can have a surprising effect on the electricity bill, which you might not want to experience. But with all the computers running to keep us connected with technology, this has to happen somewhere. In case you’re interested about cost related to your computer’s consumption, Uptime Monitor can easily do the math for you.

First thing’s first, the application can be run directly after download is complete, since it doesn’t require an installation to function. This also means you can carry it around on a USB flash drive to check out uptime, and power usage on other computers as well, without worrying that stability is affected, since registries are not a dependency.

The application stores all of its features in a clean window fitted in a classic frame, making things easy to comprehend from the first few seconds of use. Half of the main window is used to display a real time updating log, even though this means start and end times, as well as final results.

You can set monitoring time to be shown in seconds, hours, or minutes, as well as the number of decimals to use. When the process is active, there’s the possibility to also simulate downtime by simply checking the corresponding option.

For the whole process to be efficient, three fields need to be filled in accordingly. As such, you need to write down numerical values for your computer’s in-usage wattage, standby wattage for downtime periods, as well as the price you pay for kW/h.

Since you need to keep the application, and your computer running if you want to reach a target time, it would have been useful to be able to monitor LAN computers as well. IF you’re interested in saving the log to file, you need to manually copy the text, because it’s not automatically saved.

All things considered, we come to the conclusion that Uptime Monitor can help you determine why your electricity bill seems to give you trouble. Setting up values only takes a few seconds, and you need to keep the app running for proper monitoring. It can’t be used over LAN, but you can carry it around, since it’s portable.