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How To Improve Vista’s Battery Life
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2007-05-16
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There are many rumors on the net regarding Vista's Aero interface eating up precious battery life on laptops.
Windows Vista Blog responded to the concerns that a lot of people had by saying:
"First off, yes, as Dwight correctly points out, the Aero theme drives the GPU harder and therefore uses more power. But in the big picture, it's really not that much more. For example, the display on most laptops will consume somewhere between 15-25% of your power budget when you are running on battery. Nevertheless, in our testing we've seen that turning on Aero consumes only about 1-4% more of battery life. In terms of making your battery last longer, turning off Aero will not go very far while at the same time costing you some of the cool features that make Windows Vista fun to use, such as Flip 3D, taskbar previews, window transparency and so on."
To fix this battery drain you need to disable the bar and Aero Interface manually or use Vista Battery Saver.
This tinny program will save up to 70% of your battery by disabling those nice, but greedy Vista features. Running in task bar with private workset of 5.5M and 0% CPU it will do all work for you, by enabling and disabling customizable features when power source changed or battery power fall under certain percent.
Download (beta 1) for free (MSI 806KB). You need Windows Vista Home Premium and notebook to run this program.
written by Florin C.
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