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    hotkey application for the w860cu

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by kevindd992002, Dec 24, 2009.

  1. kevindd992002

    kevindd992002 Notebook Virtuoso

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    When you right click the hotkey application icon in the right side of the taskbar, you can see "power conservation modes". What does that do with the system? My Win7 settings is set to "high performance" but when I right click the hotkey icon and go to power conservation modes, it is indicated "power conservation modes" under "system state".

    Can anyone confirm? Thanks.
     
    kevindd992002, Dec 24, 2009
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  2. GMS0012

    GMS0012 Newbie

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    old topic.. but same question..

    what are the modes for?

    which is the fastest?

    you can select

    normal
    battery saver
    energy star

    i think "normal" is the fastest? anybody agree?
     
    GMS0012, Apr 22, 2010
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  3. Psychotoxic

    Psychotoxic Notebook Enthusiast

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    Resurrecting this thread again as I have the same question.

    These three settings do not correlate with the Windows 7 power plans.

    SpeedStep for example is controlled by the minimum/maximum CPU speed setting in a power plan, setting both to 100% causes the CPU to stay at the highest multiplier, etc.
    TurboBoost is managed in hardware by the CPU.
    PowerPlay doesn't work for the GPU anyway because of the VBIOS problem, it doesn't change clockrates automatically.

    So do these settings have any effect? If I change them, the process PowerBiosServer.exe that got installed with the hotkey utility uses some cycles, but I can't see any effect.
     
    Psychotoxic, Sep 7, 2010
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  4. silenius

    silenius Notebook Enthusiast

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    seems the only powerbios do is showing the notification when using the function keys
     
    silenius, Sep 8, 2010
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  5. Winejug87

    Winejug87 Notebook Enthusiast

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    On my np5125 the hotkey application has implications with Optimus, as optimus - to my knowledge - will not work on my "energy star" setting.

    Also.......I think the hotkey application creates a dynamic windows power plan called powerlife. I think their intention was to have the user leave the windows power plan on powerlife and change power states using the hotkey application. Just my two cents but I'd appreciate anyone confirming.

    Also, if there are any resources on the web that could shed some light on this program, that'd marvelous!!!
     
    Winejug87, Sep 9, 2010
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  6. fzhfzh

    fzhfzh Notebook Deity

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    Have no idea what's this little program on my taskbar do as well, doesn't seem to change anything.
     
    fzhfzh, Sep 9, 2010
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  7. silenius

    silenius Notebook Enthusiast

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    though if i could disable the 3 button on he top that would be great
     
    silenius, Sep 9, 2010
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