Aspire One Slow on Battery

My netbook runs very slow when on battery power. I've tried every power option and while "Home/Office" seems to work the best (even better than "Always On"), it still runs slower than when plugged in. I'd like to get the same performance on battery that I get when plugged in, even though I understand I may have to sacrifice battery life. Is there a way to do this, or at least to improve battery performance?

 

Where do you switch power profiles? Windows? If yes do you have any third-party software that does the same thing? Like ACER Empowering software? If yes you need to change the profiles from there too as when you change it from Windows you actually didn't change it because that other program is changing it back. Just a suggestion.

 

well, you see the little battery button click that and go to acer epower management...now change the performance while on battery.....u will kill the battery thou .

 

Unfortunately there isn't any acer epower management with the aspire one. I have that with my other acer notebook, but the only acer empowering technology program with the aspire one is the erecovery management program.

I did change the power settings in windows. I went to the Intel graphics card power settings, but all the options are grayed out so it appears that the aspire one uses windows to control power settings. I don't see any other third party software that does it on the aspire one. I really need to improve performance when on battery though so if anyone has suggestions, I'd really appreciate it.

 

If you start to act wise , and not start twin threads , you will had the answer sooner .

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=339456

 

No need for your sarcasm. The other thread was dead and your post in the other thread was actually not helpful. I downloaded the program and it didn't help the performance when on battery. I kept searching and finally found out the answer though. You need to go into device manager and then select the wireless network adapter, then to properties, then to advanced and then under "power save mode" switch it to off. That completely fixes it.

 

You never stated that wireless performance was the problem.

kiri was being very helpful as the utility offered is best available to increase performance.

Changing setting on the wireless adapter will greatly increase wireless speed and decrease battery life somewhat.

It is confusing as to what you even want to accomplish, increase performance or increase battery life.

Turning off wireless completely will increase performance and battery life.

 

Oberkanone is quite correct. If you know what questions to ask it makes members jobs a lot easier.

Like "my car doesn't work - how much does a battery cost"?

Only to find out the thing has no engine anyway...get the point?

 

Aaaaaaaaaaa any way, life goes on ..

Thanks people..