Vista Battery Saver
It’s not a secret, that cool WDM (Aero user interface), announced in Windows Vista eat laptops’ battery as hungry animal eats it’s victim. But what, actually, “eat” your battery – mostly three things: Aero, Sidebar and your wide laptop screen. We have nothing to do with screen, but we can disable either Aero UI and Sidebar, while working on battery. Let me introduce Vista Battery Saver
This tinny program will save up to 70% of your battery by disabling those nice, but greedy Vista features. Running in task bar with private workset of 5.5M and 0% CPU it will do all work for you, by enabling and disabling customizable features when power source changed or battery power fall under certain percent.
Actually, I was inspired by similar program of Clint Rutkas and Code4Fun post (as usual, I love those guys) 
. But Clint’s soft was rather buggy and completely incompatible with Windows Vista Guidelines. This one is completely “Developed for Vista” – ACT 5.0 passed stuff (at least, I think so).
This is not final version, so use it for your own risk and, please, make me know about bugs or “behaviors”, that make you sad
UPD 17-May: Home Premium installation support has been solved. All those, who had troubles to get in work in Microsoft Vista Home Premium edition, please download the new version. No other fixes in this beta release. Please make me know about other bugs
Download (beta 1) for free (MSI 901KB). You need Windows Vista Home Premium and notebook to run this program.
UPD 22-Jul: Vista Battery Saver is Open Source now. http://www.codeplex.com/vistabattery
UPD 24-Jul: New Vista Battery Saver (beta 2) has been released. More information>>
UPD 27-Jul: Vista Battery Saver (beta 2) MUI version with French user interface. More information>>
UPD 20-Aug: Vista Battery Saver (beta 2 r1) English, German, Italian and French UI + minor fixes. More information>>
May 14th, 2007 · Comments (14)
14 Responses to “Vista Battery Saver”
Leave a Reply
Discover other tags
My tools
- .NET Framework Detector
- Duplicate images finder
- Exchange Security Policy for Windows Mobile Devices Fix
- Gas Price Windows Vista SideBar gadget
- Israel Traffic Information Windows Vista SideBar gadget
- Localization fix for SAP ES Explorer for Visual Studio
- LocTester
- RTL and LTR in Windows Live Writer
- Silverlight controls library
- Snipping tool integration plugin for WLW
- USB FM receiver library
- Vista Battery Saver
- WebCam control for WPF
- Windows Live SkyDrive attachment for Windows Live Writer
- Wireless Migrator
- WPF Virtual Keyboard
January 1st, 2009 at 12:12 am
Pingback from Windows Vista Battery Saver ile %1-4 Oran??nda Pil Tasarrufu Sa??lay??n – docums.net
January 1st, 2009 at 12:12 am
Thank You..
January 1st, 2009 at 12:12 am
Pingback from » re: Vista Battery Saver
January 1st, 2009 at 12:12 am
Pingback from Ask Computer Jim » Blog Archive » Save More Battery Life With Windows Vista Battery Saver
January 1st, 2009 at 12:12 am
Pingback from The Laptop Lover’s Guide to Productivity On-the-Go | Navi Arora
January 1st, 2009 at 12:12 am
Pingback from What To Look For In A Good Power Tool. | Totally Woodworking
January 1st, 2009 at 12:13 am
This does not work/ qill not finish install in window vista ultimate on my machine. I have done several things and no matter what, it will not complete the install. It gets about 90% done, then jsut sits there and never completes. The icon is in the taskbar and the program starts, but the only way to get rid of the install is to end task it, this then ruins the install and I cannot use the program.
January 1st, 2009 at 12:13 am
I do not believe this
January 1st, 2009 at 12:13 am
PXftxe
January 1st, 2009 at 12:13 am
great, usefull 0_0
January 1st, 2009 at 12:13 am
Could you put Vista Basic compatibility into the next version? For people who have used VistaGlazz on Vista Basic.
January 1st, 2009 at 12:13 am
zReYHa I am need to price
October 8th, 2009 at 1:21 am
[...] Windows Kenar Çubuğu'nun güç profilleriyle nasıl bağdaştırılabileceğine değinelim. Windows Vista Battery Saver isimli yazılım bu işi başarıyla ve oldukça sade bir arayüzle yapıyor. Güç tasarrufu modu [...]
January 18th, 2010 at 11:00 pm
[...] Disable energy sucking Aero and Sidebar user interface candy in Windows Vista and 7. Lower the brightness on your laptops screen. Reduce the number of background applications you run. [...]