More info on the Vista laptop battery problem
As I talked about last week, laptop users are complaining that Vista is draining their batteries much faster than XP ever did. The Aero features seem to be the culprit, but I’ve learned a bit more about Aero recently. It turns out that just turning off the fancy features isn’t enough, you have to switch to a non-Aero theme too! Thanks to Ghacks I have the skinny now and think I’ll be able to squeeze as much power out of this puppy as possible!
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2 opinions for More info on the Vista laptop battery problem
A handy Vista tool to help the battery problem
May 16, 2007 at 10:53 am
[…] yesterday I told you about turning off the Aero theme to give you a boost. But what if you like the Aero theme when you’re plugged in? Switching […]
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Apr 8, 2008 at 6:37 pm
In addition to the Kill-a-watt power meter, which sits between the wall power and the MacBook’s power adapter, I also used the most excellent open source MenuMeters utility. MM shows CPU, memory, disk and network usage, typically sampled over a user-selectable 1-2 second period…
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