Comments on: Power Management in Windows Vista

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:29:50 +0000

Unfortunately, there is no built in way of working effectively with different power profiles in the Windows operating system. There are no PC power management options that allow a user to define power profiles based on time and day. This would make sense as the requirements should be different at night when you are less likely to be working.
A user who needs to access the computer system quickly at work does not necessarily want to use a energy saving power profile that shuts down the computer monitor, hard drives or even hibernates. The situation might be different at home for the same user where time is normally not a pressing matter.
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The PC power management software can be configured to run any of the available power schemes in the configured time period which makes it dead easy to set different power plans for day and night use.

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By: sblackb

sblackb — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:23:04 +0000

Roy, I’m using home Premium so I don’t know if that is the difference, but with my setup, I have to click on the “Require a Password on Wake up” option to even change it. I do have to go into Admin mode, so maybe you should try your settings logged in as admin, then apply, then reboot. Do you have more than one user account in Windows? Maybe try deleting those or creating a “power saver” user for the new settings.

By: Roy Dominion

Roy Dominion — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:43:59 +0000

I use 32-bit Vista Ultimate
My only issue is with the Require Password on Wakeup option, which I explicitly set tyo “NO”, but when I reboot, say for updates, it changes itself back to “YES”. The only way I can think of to fix this, is to format and reinstall everything – which I’ve done at least twice a day for the last five days running, with one thing or another coming up at the last minute, and that being the only solution I can come up with. I’ve just got everything alse working right, and don’t want to start again. How can I solve this?

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