power saver

Battery anxiety is a shared experience among laptop and tablet users, whether they’re digital nomads in a coffee shop or students navigating a full day of classes. The evolution of how Windows manages energy has been a story of incremental tweaks, heated user debates, and third-party...

Windows 11 has once again raised the bar for user experience and innovation with the arrival of build 27898, now rolling out to Canary Channel users. This update is more than a routine set of tweaks—it’s a ground-up response to many of the persistent requests from the Windows community...

Power management has always been a defining feature of the Windows ecosystem, shaping user experiences from desktop workstations to mobile laptops. With the continual evolution of Windows 11, Microsoft has foregrounded energy efficiency, user customization, and device longevity in its power...

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High-Performance Plan set CPU speed at maximum, Power Saver set CPU speed at minimum, and Balanced Plan set CPU speed as per applications need means minimum when no requirement, maximum when maximum requirement. That means the Balanced Plan is sufficient for desktop as well as Laptop. Is it...

I have a Surface 3 Pro Tablet running Windows 10, Version 1607. There is only one power plan, Balanced, that I can select. Is there a way to get additional plans? Such as Power Saver, Performance, etc? Second question. The plan settings are very limited no CPU settings, no wifi settings, etc...

Hi, I am using nvidia multi display power saver with SLI. With two monitors both cards are running at 51mhz and temps are good. Is this safe to force downclock all the time until I need the extra power/3D?

Hello, When i tick an option, e.g 'power saver' in the battery meter, it is not retained after a restart and he two radio button return to unticked. I could not get help from Asus: They want to reset the machine to factory(!) though I know it was so since the first day Any Idea? Many thanks...

I get Windows 7 rebooting on its own under the following condition: I power off the monitor and sometime later when I power it back on, I see that I am at the logon screen. If I never power off the monitor, Windows does not reboot on its own. I did change the power supply. sfc finds nothing...

I am using a windows 7 Acer laptop, and the screen only brightens when I plug in the charger. Also, the battery gets used up too quickly, even though I have the computer on 'power saver.' Downloading Bios or a brightness control won't work. The lever goes up and down easily when I bring up the...

I have a Dell Inspiron 530 with Win 7 32bit, GeForce 9800GT graphics card and upgraded my power supply to Silencer 500W PC Power. My power settings are set never to shut monitor or hard drive. When I play some videos my computer goes into power saver mode and I can't get out of it unless I...

Under Power Options in the control panel, the plan settings for My Custom Plan 1 are for the display to turn off and the computer to sleep after 2 hours sitting idle...it is not working. I tried bumping it to an hour for each and it still does not work. Any ideas? Thank you for any advice...

I have a new Dell XPS L501 i5 with Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit. Each time I open the laptop, and start up, if I do not touch the keypad the screen goes to sleep after 3 minutes. Each day I alter the Power Saver option in Control Panel re "screen sleep after" to 30 minutes, and of course save...

alright i have a dell inspiron 7010 6gb ram 600gb hard drive windows 7 ultimate and for a while now i have been having a problem were the screen turns black because of power saver and when i move the mouse the back light comes on but there isn't any picture anyone have any solutions

Hey i know that it is been posted a bit about this alredy and i have been reading most of it but i guess its timer to bring life to the posts again, while i keep reading and trying more solutions, appreciate all help... Ok i've had this problem for quiet some time now and done certain things...

I finally got my NAS mapped to my Win7 machine and when the PC goes into Power Saver (Sleep Mode) it loses the drive mapping. Logging off and back on does not seem to restore the mapping, only restarting. Also Win 7 doesn't see the other WinXP machines on the network? I have gone through the...

I've noticed on my friend's laptop that this option turns off most aero effects and saves battery (he has an Intel integrated gpu). On my netbook however (Gateway LT3103 - gfx: ati x1270) it doesn't work, all of the effects are there. Though it does set every other setting correctly this one is...

I am using Windows 7 on my laptop, and I generally switch between High Performance (when the power cable is in) and Power Saver (when the power cable is not in). When I switch between power modes, I click the battery icon, and that brings up a list of the available power schemes. However, it...

So I have an interesting little bug that has started happening on my new install of windows 7. I'm using an Acer Aspire 6920, I've got a mac keyboard plugged in, but the problem persists even on the Enter key of my Laptop, so I doubt it's the keyboard that's causing the issue. Any ideas what...

I'm running Compaq Presario CQ40 with the following hardware: Windows 7 build 7057 Intel Pentium Dual CPU T3200 @ 2 GHz RAM 1 GB The problem that i'm having is that windows constantly changes the battery indicator to show that i have little or no juice left even when i'm plugged in...