Windows 8 - Power Manager

Is there still no Power Manager for Win 8? It's a tool that has an array of useful functionality not available otherwise. If there will be no support in Win 8, that may be the final straw to run Win 7 on the T440s.

 

I got the Power Manager to run properly on my X230t with Windows 8 after lots of trial and error.

On my W530 I never could get it working so I just gave up and modified the registry so I could at least set a charge threshold.

 

There is NO official Power Manager for W8, and my understanding is that there NEVER will be one.

You're looking at a *lot* of trial & error either way. My understanding - which might be incorrect - is that T*40 series were designed primarily as W8 machines.

That being said, if I could ever bring myself to using one of these laptops, I'd definitely attempt to run W7 and not W8, but that's me...

Good luck, seems like you'll need it regardless of the exact route that you end up choosing...

 

So without Power Manager, we cannot set the minimum and maximum charge limits on the batteries? If so, then it's a disadvantage to getting Windows 8 for Thinkpads. If one wants to get a new Haswell-based Thinkpad, then I guess there is no choice other than to manually install Windows 7 yourself. As akjula6 says, who knows how W7 will work with the new Thinkpads, especially with the touch features (if one gets a touchscreen) and maybe scaling-wise.

 

Win 7 support will be perfect as their primary customers, the corporate ones, will use Win 7. I don't see Power Manager for the new models even for Win 7, so hopefully it does install and work fine.

 

Weird. I'm running W8 on my X230 and Power Manager <mostly> works. The only think that doesn't work is in "advanced" it will not show "battery properties"; I have full functionality besides that, and everything works great.

That said, I did not do a clean install of W8--I did a clean install of W7, installed PM during that process. Then I just did the W8 upgrade n W7. So, maybe that was the difference?

 

I am confused, Power Manager has always worked for me with no issues?:

 

I can comfirm that the Power manager for Windows 7 works on my Win8 X220t, every function works properly. No special tricks whatsoever needed. Just download the setup and install. However if I remembered correctly, when Win8 was launched, Power manager on it was flaky and compataiblity mode was needed.

The only thing that dosen't work with Win 8 is the hotkeys UI (FN+X).

 

Thanks everyone.