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    W7 & battery life

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by wettek, May 12, 2009.

  1. wettek

    wettek Notebook Consultant

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    Gidday guys

    Just wondering if anybody has noticed any change in battery life with W7. I was of the understanding it was going to increase battery life noticably, what's your opinions?

    Regards to all.
     
    wettek, May 12, 2009
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    jackluo923 Notebook Virtuoso

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    The battery life increased a little bit compared to XP because of more control over the power management.
     
    jackluo923, May 12, 2009
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  3. MidnightSun

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    I think it's similar to Vista right now (which is better than XP). With the final version and official drivers, it'll likely be a bit better.
     
    MidnightSun, May 12, 2009
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    newsposter Notebook Virtuoso

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    By default Win7 indexes **everything** on your hard drive. You could shut off indexing to save some cpu cycles and a boatload of disk accesses.
     
    newsposter, May 13, 2009
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  5. Guntraitor Sagara

    Guntraitor Sagara Notebook Evangelist

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    If i turn off indexing, what would be the disadvantages? Would that slow bootup/application launch time and other stuff? :eek: i use the search function occasionally.
     
    Guntraitor Sagara, May 13, 2009
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    doesn't affect boot times or shutdown. It will affect some searches, expecially searches that cross many directories. But not too much. In my case, the upsides of shutting down indexing are greater than the downside of longer searches.
     
    newsposter, May 13, 2009
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