No Powermizer in Windows 7?

I just installed Windows 7 on my m4400. But for some reason there is no option for powermizer in windows 7. This is odd because I have it in XP just not in 7. Im running 181.71 if that matters. I've tried installing Vista drivers but I still dont get the option to turn it on or off. I can tell it's functional because if I play a game on battery power it stutters but as soon as I plug it in, it's smooth again.

 

Try other version drivers.

 

There is only 1 driver version for Windows 7 and the 2 Vista drivers I used didn't give me the option either

 

PowerMizer was removed from the Vista/7 Control Panel for some reason.
There's a registry setting that does the same thing, though. Go look it up.

 

Try this if you haven't
http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-cards/602-latest-nvidia-forceware-video-drivers-windows-7-a.html

 

No, powermizer wont work in windows 7 because microsoft simply didnt include it in there registry, this is how you do it....

Some people seem to be abit confussed..
1 any driver can be downloaded, it doesnt matter, you can input them manually and get powermizer to work
2 Windows 7 32 bit or 64 bit OS, the powermizer will not work until you input them manually because they are simply not in the registry

Heres a quick guide how to solve all your problems
1 Press the windows key and R key on the keyboard
2 This will bring up the run window
3 Type regedit and click ok
4 This will open the registry editor
5 Click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
6 Then click the following, SYSTEM,currentcontrolset,control,Video
7 You will see lots of numbers, open each one up and click the 0000, your looking for the one thats shows a massive list on the right, this is where we need to input the data
8 When you have found the right one, right click and new tab will come up, click new
9 Input PerfLevelSrc as the name now repeat the above for the following..
PowerMizerEnable
PowerMizerLevel
PowerMizerLevelAC
10 In the list you should now have this...
PerfLevelSrc
PowerMizerEnable
PowerMizerLevel
PowerMizerLevelAC
11 Right click PerfLevelScr and press modify, then input 3333 as the value
12 For PowerMizerEnable, PowerMizerLevel, PowerMizerLevelAC the value should be 0, you can check this by right clicking on them and pressing modify, they should already be at 0, if not change them to 0
13 Now close it down (top corner x) and reboot
14 Now download powermizer switch from this forum and it will work with windows 7 and any nvidia driver, if powermizer switch doesnt work (it should do though)you can turn it off manually from the above, instead of putting 3333 as the value, input 3322 for ac off and battery on or 2222 to turn it off on both ac power and battery (3333 is powermizer on), the good thing about powermizer swich is you dont have to do it manually so you can have it on when on the net and off for gaming, works great for throttling issues or low fps/lag
Enjoy

 

It works, and it's there by default.. Its not up to microsoft to include it, its something that the nvidia drivers do.

Although to my experience powermizer doesnt work as good in 7 as it did in Vista.

 

No, it's not. If you open up the help to the nVidia control panel, it states right there that the Mobile section, which would contain the PowerMizer controls, is not present on laptops with Windows 7.

 

That havent been there in years... Its built in, in the registry or something.. I know it is.

 

There are a lot of obsolete XP applications and tech that aren't included in Win7.

 

I had the same problem as well. I ran powermizer switch (extract and run as admin) and now I have it!
link: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=273276

 

Yes, sometimes the registry entries might be missing, but powermizer switch fixes that with a click.