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    Acer ePower management software

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Jayayess1190, Sep 22, 2009.

  1. Jayayess1190

    Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake

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    Hello. I see in the 1410/1810 thread people uninstall this and it seems to help battery life. I want to see proof. Show tests, videos, photos, whatever proof you have that this software that Acer engineers designed is useless. I had an EEE before and it shipped with Asus's own power management software and I never had a problem with it working together with whatever Linux or Windows OS I used. So, lets see what proof you have that shows the epower management software is useless.
     
    Jayayess1190, Sep 22, 2009
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  2. zrbarnes

    zrbarnes Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well for me, every setting it could change was already changeable via windows 7 power management.

    I run my computer as lite as possible. Why run add-on software when the OS software functions just as well?
     
    zrbarnes, Sep 22, 2009
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  3. BYRoN_ITA

    BYRoN_ITA Newbie

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    Hi !
    I have a 3810T with Windows 7 64 bit. I tried ePower software (I installed the version for Vista x64) but I didn't notice any improvements. It starts a service, I have two more programs in the task manager but the battery life seems equal than before. It seems also to overwrite my power plan setting at every boot, expecially the screen brightness. I set it to 0% for power saver plan but it sets it to 40% at every reboot.
    The green battery button works also without Acer ePower managment (even if I don't know what exaclty improves).
     
    BYRoN_ITA, Sep 22, 2009
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  4. der_mali

    der_mali Weihnachtsmann

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    Just try it yourself for a while. Uninstall ePower and apply the tweaks from the Timeline Tweaks thread. I think rarely someone would want to make an 8h+ test or video :D
    I think the reason for Acer to ship their timelines with that software is to ensure that the users gets the claimed battery life, thus the software overwrites custom settings after every reboot.
     
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  5. Jayayess1190

    Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake

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    Okay, I uninstall and see what happens.
     
    Jayayess1190, Sep 22, 2009
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