Increasing battery life for windows xp:...

Increasing battery life for windows xp:...
hemang
Sunday, May 1, 2005 4:14:58 PM
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Increasing battery life for windows xp:

1) Right click desktop and choose properties from context menu. Select the appearance tab and click effects.Clear all of the options in the effects dialog box.

2) Right click my computer icon and choose properties from the context menu. Select the advanced tab. Click settings in the performance area and u will see a performance options dialog box. Notice that the Visual effects tab contains 3 preset performance options. Select the adjust for best performance options.

3) Add profile to ur laptop that disables all of the devices that u don’t use.

Author disabled serial & parallel ports, PCMCIA, modem, soundboard, infrared port, and network interface card. Result was that his laptop ran for 3 hrs and 32min from 1hr and 5 min.

To create and manage profiles, open the hardware tab of the system properties dialog box. Click hardware profiles on hardware tab and u will see a hardware profiles dialog box. This dialog box contains list of profiles. Profile listed at the top is default.

Create a new profile by copying existing profile by clicking on copy and u will see copy profile dialog box. Enter name for new profile.

Click properties and u will see profile properties dialog box. U can choose 3 docking status: docked, undocked or unknown.

‘ALWAYS USE THIS PROFILE AS AN OPTION WHEN WINDOWS START’ is cleared by default. CHECK this option.

After u create profile, boot the system using it. Use device manager to enable/disable device. Check the setup by booting again.



NOTE:U can not create empty profile so u have to copy existing profile



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