LenovoWare

Im currently cleaning my laptop of all the bloatware that was installed on it.
And then i come across the Lenovo Power Manager..
I understand that its convenient, but its way to heavy and slow. Are there any alternatives that you guys use?

 

If you want to be able to set battery charge thresholds and manage some other Lenovo Thinkpad-specific settings, no, there are no alternatives. My advice is to leave it be, as you may even lose a bit of battery runtime if you uninstall Power Manager.

 

It works fine for me. I don't notice any slowdowns with Lenovo software. And honestly, it is probably the best software to use on a Lenovo laptop for power management as it can access information other programs can't.

 

I mean some stuff i just don't use and will never need. So that i just completely removed.

And with the battery manager, the only problem i have with it is that when i try to load it up it takes a few seconds and its frustrating sometimes.

But thanks for a quick reply

 

yeah, power manager is a good SW. Shame that presentation manager is not developed anymore, because that was my favorite

 

just discovered the short cut to the power modes. Really happy
Im loving my thinkpad...

 

My boot up was 32/35 seconds without the Battery Manager and around 45/52 seconds with battery manager. I played with both the battery manager and microsofts own utility. For me, I liked Microsofts version since I can judge when I have to unplug the power cord before it reaches 100% to save the battery.

 

I really don't believe power manager makes a difference in extending the battery. I get the exact same battery time on the factory install (with PM) as I do with a clean install (no PM or thinkvantage) with just the fingerprint reader software installed.

The only thing I really do like about PM is that you can stop the battery from charging. However sometimes the windows one says, (99%, not charging). So I don't know if that is completely necessary either... I'm not to up on that sort of thing. So far though, I'm not missing power manager.

 

I've never seen the Windows Power manager contain completely accurate information on how much total energy the battery is capable of storing (ie: right now on my system Windows thinks the battery has 10 additional watt hours than it can possibly store). This means that at some point the windows "percentage" remaining will be inaccurate. I've never seen the Lenovo software be inaccurate in this regards.

Also, the charge thresholds without the software installed will either be at the default of charge at 96% stop at 100% or possibly whatever you last set it to when you did have the power manager installed.

Regardless, the Lenovo software does do some communication with the battery circuitry that Windows does not, and I have yet to see anything that shows that it slows your system down at all.

 

This makes no sense. There is nothing in the Lenovo power manager that takes 15 seconds to load. Something else was going on there. Nobody will ever convince me that a battery manager takes half as much time as the ENTIRE OS to load up. Something else was causing a slowdown for you.

More so, why would you want to watch for and unplug your machine when you reach a certain % rather than just have it do it all for you automatically with the Lenovo software?

To each his/her own, it's your personal choice, but I just don't see it. You get some nice functionality with their software. The only thing that I don't like about it is they try to do too much with fancy graphics in the actual manager, however since the only time you run it is to change settings it doesn't matter. The task try icon takes nothing from your system.

 

Power Manager is so much more than that:

• You can set the fan mode
• Use Lenovo's power plans which have more tinkering done to get the best battery life vs Windows own plans
• You can see how many watts your system is using
• Easily turn on or off Battery Stretch
• Easily turn on or off the powered usb port
• Get stats on battery health