Portable/Laptop power scheme in XP

does this tone down CPU performance in exchange for longer battery life? And if so, is there a way I can switch between Home/Office desk to Portable Laptop when I'm running on power? And switch back when I'm using AC?

Thanks.



And to make everything clear I'm not looking for any programs that do this, I'm wondering if this can be done using the XP power scheme interface alone.

 

Portable/laptop power scheme in windows allows Intel or AMD processors to slow down based to Intel speedstep or AMD power now. These technologies will immediately ramp back up to full power if you need it so don't worry if you see it running at a slower cpu frequency, it does that when you don't need the extra power (and yes doing this will save you battery power). Home/office will cause the CPU to run at full blast unnecessarily and doing so will also cause heat generation to sky rocket!!

You don't need home/desktop because you are using a notebook and leaving it on portable/laptop will make no difference in processing power as I mentioned earlier. What it will do is let you get lower temps because the CPU will slow down when you don't need all your processing power, also the switching between slower cpu speed and full power is not noticeable so don't worry about that.

Hope this answers your question...

 

It does, thanks alot!