Extend Your Laptop Battery with Vista Battery Saver
17Aug2007 Filed under: General Author: Derek Hatchard
If you run Vista on a laptop, stop whatever you’re doing right now (which I guess is reading this), and go get the Vista Battery Saver to improve laptop battery life on Vista. It automatically switches your power plan when you plug in to or unplug from AC power. It will also disable the Aero Glass user interface and disable the Sidebar when you switch to battery (it turns them back on when you plug in again).
This handy little utility runs in the background with basically no CPU overhead (it uses a little bit of memory of course).
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Derek Hatchard is a web consultant turned entrepreneur. He runs
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- shawn: Thanks. In all my years I've never been there before! I believe this alone made big issues
- xtd: Boo Hoo. You have to be a total moron to use Vista. It loses EVERTYIME.
- Derek Hatchard: @shawn, it's Tools > Send/Receive > Send/Receive Settings > Define Send/Receive Groups. Then click the Edit
- shawn: Where is the account options you reference in the screenshot. that's a new for me! drop me
- Dilip: I have been using xps 1530 for 3 months now. I downgraded the OS from Vista
- Matt Wynne: A mighty hack. Thank you.
- Foster: I feel your pain/realization Derek. I have 2 youngsters and a wife who spends and I
- Derek Hatchard: Lynn, you should be able to install a new hard drive and then use your Leopard install
- Lynn Chisholm: I am trying to find help with a problem I have with my 18 month old MacBook.
- Derek Hatchard: Car pool leaving Moncton at 6:00pm. Email me to reserve a spot and get the meetup
Jonathan
November 29th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
The ASUS utility Power4Gear works much better then this pos.