I’ve been using Vista on and off again for the past 18 months, and only recently have I really begun to dive into this whole Vista craze. Or lack of a craze. Either way, it’s beginning to become a pain to find drivers for XP on brand new systems (unless it’s a Dell or HP system).<\/p>\n
Well, one thing I do like about Vista is how it handles the throttling of the CPUs. Microsoft really opened up all the options for power savings – which is probably why I end up with an extra hour of battery life when using Vista over XP. Ubuntu is still better, but that’s getting off topic.<\/p>\n
I created my own power plan. Everything was peachy. When on battery I underclocked my system to 800MHz and .800 core volts. That’s the lowest it could go, and since it’s dual core it’s pretty close to a 1.6GHz machine. And when plugged in, I put it up to 1400MHz, but it rarely ever even popped up there. Why underclock a 2.2GHz machine? I’m not a fan of heat.<\/p>\n
But randomly the power settings would go away. The max processor would move from my 1% to 100%. It usually happened after updating the system, but that wasn’t always a factor.<\/p>\n
Long story short, it started to peeve me that the computer would revert back to it’s original settings. I wanted it to run as slow and cool as possible. Lucky for me (and maybe you) I finally found a command to edit the power settings. No more clicking into 803838038 different menus to change it.<\/p>\n
You can find it Here<\/a>. It’s called Power3.bat, and it doesn’t harm your computer in any way. You can even edit it if you’d like. I’ve done all the hard work.<\/p>\n In fact, here’s the code: I’ve been using Vista on and off again for the past 18 months, and only recently have I really begun to dive into this whole Vista craze. Or lack of a craze. Either way, it’s beginning to become a pain to find drivers for XP on brand new systems (unless it’s a Dell or HP … Continue reading Vista Power Plan<\/span>
\npowercfg -setacvalueindex SCHEME_BALANCED SUB_PROCESSOR PROCTHROTTLEMIN 10
\npowercfg -setacvalueindex SCHEME_BALANCED SUB_PROCESSOR PROCTHROTTLEMAX 50
\npowercfg -setdcvalueindex SCHEME_BALANCED SUB_PROCESSOR PROCTHROTTLEMIN 1
\npowercfg -setdcvalueindex SCHEME_BALANCED SUB_PROCESSOR PROCTHROTTLEMAX 25
\npowercfg -S SCHEME_BALANCED
\npause<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"