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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://windowsteamblog.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Aero and battery life</title><link>http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/05/14/aero-and-battery-life.aspx</link><description>Dwight Silverman, the tech reviewer at the Houston Chronicle , has written about the impact that the Aero theme has on battery life and performance (under the provocative title " Vista, Aero, battery life . . . and Doom " -- he's referring to the game</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008 SP1 (Build: 30619.63)</generator><item><title>Optimiza el uso de la bater??a en Windows Vista | Materia Geek</title><link>http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/05/14/aero-and-battery-life.aspx#502958</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:09:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:502958</guid><dc:creator>Optimiza el uso de la bater??a en Windows Vista | Materia Geek</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Pingback from &amp;nbsp;Optimiza el uso de la bater??a en Windows Vista | Materia Geek&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://windowsteamblog.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=502958" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>Windows Vista Battery Saver</title><link>http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/05/14/aero-and-battery-life.aspx#495071</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:03:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:495071</guid><dc:creator>Aleksandar's computer kitchen</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Windows Vista Battery Saver&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://windowsteamblog.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=495071" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Aero and battery life</title><link>http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/05/14/aero-and-battery-life.aspx#493270</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:25:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:493270</guid><dc:creator>Fumanchu2001</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Does Aero allow for the colour of the taskbar and start menu to change? so far window borders and transparency is all I can change, does the taskbar and start menue always stay dark or near black?, personally I would like the taskbar and start menu to actually match the colour picker/theme.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unless I have missed something?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://windowsteamblog.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=493270" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Aero and battery life</title><link>http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/05/14/aero-and-battery-life.aspx#490511</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:51:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:490511</guid><dc:creator>batterychartger</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;need charge the battery!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.rechargeable-battery.us"&gt;http://www.rechargeable-battery.us&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://windowsteamblog.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=490511" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>Save More Battery Life With Windows Vista Battery Saver</title><link>http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/05/14/aero-and-battery-life.aspx#488657</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:50:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:488657</guid><dc:creator>Prasanna Vignesh </dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Save More Battery Life With Windows Vista Battery Saver&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://windowsteamblog.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=488657" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>Save Your Battery From Vista</title><link>http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/05/14/aero-and-battery-life.aspx#486540</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:59:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:486540</guid><dc:creator>O'Reilly Radar</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;if you are running Vista then you might appreciate the Vista Battery Saver. As Tamir Khason describes his project: This tiny program will save up to 70% of your battery by disabling those nice, but greedy Vista features. Running...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://windowsteamblog.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=486540" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>New Beta of Vista Battery Saver</title><link>http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/05/14/aero-and-battery-life.aspx#486484</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:36:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:486484</guid><dc:creator>Pocket.Net - Mobile 2.0</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Vista Battery Saver is just what its name says it is: A utility to squeeze as much life out of those&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://windowsteamblog.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=486484" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>New Beta of Vista Battery Saver</title><link>http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/05/14/aero-and-battery-life.aspx#486482</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:19:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:486482</guid><dc:creator>GottaBeMobile.com</dc:creator><description>&lt;img src="http://windowsteamblog.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=486482" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Aero and battery life</title><link>http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/05/14/aero-and-battery-life.aspx#485782</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 04:57:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:485782</guid><dc:creator>battery</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I guess you can join worldwide battery resources &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.global-battery-directory.com"&gt;http://www.global-battery-directory.com&lt;/a&gt; to gain more help.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://windowsteamblog.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=485782" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>Aereo nn distrugge la batteria dei portatili</title><link>http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/05/14/aero-and-battery-life.aspx#485071</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:10:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:485071</guid><dc:creator>IL NUOVO MONDO DI WINDOWS VISTA™</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Redmond (USA) - &amp;quot;Non &amp;#232; Aero ad uccidere le vostre batterie&amp;quot;. Questa, in estrema sintesi, la risposta data da Nick White, product manager di Microsoft per Windows Vista, a coloro che ritengono la nuova interfaccia grafica di Vista responsabile di accorc..&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://windowsteamblog.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=485071" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Aero and battery life</title><link>http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/05/14/aero-and-battery-life.aspx#484229</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 07:07:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:484229</guid><dc:creator>Gallus</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I personally have two user accounts for line power and mobile, my laptop has decent (new, but cheap) specifications. The mobile profile has all but essential services and auto-run programs set to manual startup, while the line power one has everything turned to the 'on' position, the difference in battery life between the two is around one hour. For me thats one hour longer to enter data in the field, even without the pretty effects, it is worth it. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://windowsteamblog.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=484229" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>Aero verbraucht mehr Strom</title><link>http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/05/14/aero-and-battery-life.aspx#484220</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 10:07:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:484220</guid><dc:creator>Teamzille.de</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Seit dem Erscheinen von Windows Vista gab es immerwieder Diskussionen darber, ob die neue Aero-Oberflche die Akkulaufzeiten von Notebooks stark beeinflussen wrde. Im Windows Vista Team Blog gibt es jetzt einen klrenden Eintrag zu diesem Thema. Natrl&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://windowsteamblog.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=484220" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Aero and battery life</title><link>http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/05/14/aero-and-battery-life.aspx#484212</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 02:06:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:484212</guid><dc:creator>caywen</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I want to believe this, but this just has not been my experience with Vista. Honestly, when I ran XP on my HP DV9000T (1.5GB, Core Duo) I got about 3 hours of battery life. After upgrading to Vista, I get about 1.5 hours tops. After disabling Aero Glass, I get about 2 hours (so definitely there are other things going on given that I'm still short an hour). But something Aero-related gives me 33% more battery life. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Another thing I noticed is that my laptop *bakes* when Aero Glass (or should I call it Desktop Composition?) is turned on. The fan runs almost nonstop. With it turned off, the fan is much more reasonable and the machine is only moderately warm.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I understand that from your perspective, you can't see why this would happen, but it is and it's really killing my Vista experience.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://windowsteamblog.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=484212" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Aero and battery life</title><link>http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/05/14/aero-and-battery-life.aspx#484195</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 10:38:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:484195</guid><dc:creator>Mike Dimmick</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;In testing a change to a handheld application running on Windows Mobile, we found that moving from a polling loop (containing a Sleep call) to blocking on an event actually had an almost unmeasurable effect on power consumption and hence battery life. The main consumer of power on the device was the screen backlight!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you want to save power, turn down the backlight.&lt;/p&gt;
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