Get better battery life with Vista Battery Saver

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Get better battery life with Vista Battery Saver

by Brad Linder Jul 25th 2007

Two of the biggest battery hogs in Windows Vista are the flashy Aero user interface and the gadget sidebar. So it stands to reason that if you want to get the most out of your laptop's battery life you'll disable these features when running on battery power.

Vista Battery Saver does more than save your battery. It saves you time. Every time you unplug your computer, it can automatically switch off Aero and your sidebar. Plug the power cable back in and they'll reappear like magic.

Tamir Khason has just released a new beta version of Vista Battery Saver with bug fixes and one new feature: the ability to automatically switch between power management plans when you plug/unplug your laptop.

[via jkOnTheRun]

Tags: power management, PowerManagement, vista, vista battery saver, vista battery saver beta 2, VistaBatterySaver, VistaBatterySaverBeta2, windows vista, WindowsVista

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

lifehacker said 3:38PM on 7-25-2007

I wanted to be able to preserve power by killing / starting processes depending on whether my laptop is plugged in or not. It doesn't seem like that would be difficult to find, but I can't find it. So, I took a foray into visual basic and wrote it myself. Well, it's certainly a hack and a half, but I got what I basically want going. It seems pretty functional.

You can get it here:
http://www.dirtygreek.org/journal/journalId/2068

gojeda said 9:05AM on 7-26-2007

FWIW, according to Tom's Hardware, the difference between running Aero and not running Aero is a whopping 1 watt.

Feel free to do more testing, but so far as I can tell, Aero does not any meaningful overhead in the battery department.

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