Limit of power options in taskbar?

How come in Win 7 you can only have 2 options displayed? if you want the thrid one you have to click more options, then select the plan you want.

then you're back to two options in the taskbar again.

In Vista, when you click the taskbar power icon, you get a minimum of 3 plans? I would like to have 3 plans always showing in the taskbar choices, or more preferably, just the POWER SAVER & PERFORMANCE plans, I don't ever used the balance plan?

any help?

 

nope, the BALANCED plan is always shown

so it makes it a hassle for me to switch between power saver and performance

 

its a laptop, when I go out, i use POWER SAVER, when im at home or plugged in, i switch to performance

 

You can make changes to the high performance plan to save energy when running in battery. Copy the battery settings of power saver plan. You can see the settings in advanced options of the power plan.

 

I know that dude, I have edited all the plans to best suit them. But still, is this a bug in Win 7 that I should report? Was just wondering if ansy of you know a workaround for this.

 

Try Vista Battery Saver. Although it's for Vista it works flawlessly on my notebook.

 

it's not a bug, it got defined once as a change.

i never used different energy profiles yet. the default, balanced, just scales down to great batterylife and up to great performance by default. i don't see why we have this accessible by default instead of hidden for some special tweaks in special cases at all actually.

 

AFAIK it should always show 'Balance' i.e the recommended plan and the last plan you used.

So if you last used 'Power Saver' you get Balanced and Power Saver. Last used 'High Performance, you get Balance and High Performance

http://www.ithinkdiff.com/different-new-power-saving-options-in-windows-7/

 

I heard it's Microsoft's way of being a little more green.

 

How to have all of these three plans in the quick menu? I just can have two plans

Balanced
Power saver
High performance

 

You can't. It's not possible in Windows 7 at this time.

 

Read this thread dude

the only bummer about Windows 7

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=390496

 

All the more reason to love my button to change power settings

I never an into this problem myself.

 

What buttpn? laptop button to switch plans?

well, my GeForce 9600 M GT 512 MB pwns your 9500!

and my 2.53 Centrino 2 (6 MB L2 Cache) will smoke your CPU

 

I'm assuming you have a power plan widget? If so where did you get it from, I've been looking for one for a while.
Cheers

 

Merged the thread with the other one on the same topic.

 

my 9500 does what I want it to do just fine

and I have a button that changes the power plan I'm using if I press it at the top of my laptop, and pressing fn + space does the same thing for me.