To improve an operationality in a selection setup for application software when a power saving is set up in conjunction with equipment, a method and a storage medium to set the power saving for the application running on information processing equipment such as a computer.

An attributive information input screen to feed the attributive information is displayed, the storage means in which the attributive information of the software is stored in accordance with a storage location of the software and its execution file name is retrieved by the attributive information input through the above described attributive information input screen, the corresponding software location and its execution file name are identified, the power saving control information for a hardware device is set to the identified software, and the above described identified software and the power saving control information for the hardware device set as above are stored in the storage means based on their mutual relationships.