With a focus on touchscreen devices – which are predominantly mobile in nature – comes the requirement to reduce a computer system’s power consumption to increase its battery life. According to a new blog post over at the Building Windows 8 site, Microsoft has made important changes to their upcoming operating system’s power consumption. The [...]
- Author: Melanie Gross
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Increase your Laptop’s Battery Life with Advanced Power Settings
There’s nothing more annoying than digging out your laptop to do some important work, only to find you have 5% battery power left, or worse still the laptop has powered itself down due to no power left at all. Depending on your laptop’s model you can get anything from 1-hour usage to 12 hours, but [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Microsoft Fix-It To Extend Battery Life, Troubleshoot Power Consumption Problems
An improperly configured power scheme can reduce the battery life of a notebook, netbook or other mobile device significantly. It does not really have to be something that is configured deep in the operating system; Something like a too bright display can make a huge difference. Everyone can make a wrong change on the system [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Extend Windows Vista Laptop Battery Life With Aerofoil
It is a well known fact that it is possible to extend the battery life of laptops by turning off features that are not needed. This can for instance be hardware devices like modems, Bluetooth and WiFi. There is not really a benefit of keeping those enabled if they are not used ever on the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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SpeedswitchXP Laptop CPU Frequency Control
Laptop users love batteries that last longer. At least those laptop users who use their laptop on the road, those desktop replacement laptops are usually to big and heavy to be carried around anyway. One of the best ways to extend battery life is to reduce the cpu frequency of the laptop. That’s usually not [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Windows Vista Aero Color Transform
I found a nice little Windows Vista utility to change the appearance of the Aero Glass theme even further by allowing color transformations. The normal Windows Vista style has a static color while the Vista Color Transform application may change colors over time.
The software offers a pre-defined sets of colors that have names such as Patriotic, My Eyes!! and Winter displaying small preview images of the colors that are cycled through. If you take Winter for example you see white and icy colors when you click on edit.