Increase Vista Battery Life with Vista Battery Saver

Windows Vista in its default mode with Aero Glass and Gadget Sidebar enabled, compromises on battery life. My notebook with full brightness gives me around 2.5 hours, which is pretty dull compared to Ryan’s notebook, but I was able to extend it to 3 hours with a free application called Vista Battery Saver.

vista battery saver

It smartly disables Aero Glass effect and Gadget Sidebar while running on battery and automatically puts your notebook into performance mode while plugged-in to a power source. More than battery, it saves your time. Prior to installing Vista Battery Saver, I had to manually switch between power saver and performance power profiles.

After installing Vista Battery Saver, it automatically starts with Windows and quietly sits in your system tray without causing much resource hog. I was able to extract 30 -40 more minutes of juice out of my battery running on full brightness.

Download Vista Battery Saver | Vista Power Battery Homepage

Thanks: Ryan

This post was published by on July 28, 2007

About the Author: Thilak Rao works as a Social Media Expert. He is one of the first professional bloggers from India, and he loves to write, travel and click photos. Follow him on Twitter @thilak

  • http://www.rishiraj.info Rishi

    Cool tool, Good for travellers to save there battery life! Anyways, you said it doesn’t cause MUCH resource hog, what if the user is running a 512MB RAM minimum requirement system of Vista, will it cause a hog or disturbance?
    I guess it won’t cause anything bad when the software is removed from the laptop. :)

  • http://www.techzilo.com TechZilo

    I’m curious to know what your laptop is, as I am contemplating a move to laptop too :D

  • http://www.webmaster-dome.com/ Sreejith

    I thought laptops had more battery time. I mean, if you can only use your laptop for 2.5 hours, I’d rather turn it off. I mean, anything I do will exceed 2.5 hours of work.

  • http://blogtalks.net/buyblogcomments-spam-arrives.html BuyBlogComments Spam Arrives!

    [...] It didn’t take long for BuyBlogComments spammers to invade my blog. I just received one of their spam comments which looks totally legitimate, but with the email address as buyblogcomments@gmail.com and a lame question for this post. [...]

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com Nirmal

    Right now I dont own a laptop, will try this when i get one soon.

  • http://blogulate.com Blogulate

    mm.. good option for travelers .. not for ppl who use pcs mostly at home

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Blogulate: Home PCs are mostly connected to power source through out the day, so they rarely need this software

  • Fasang

    Sounds like smtg making good sence: vista takes to much power for your laptop actually. I ‘ve tryed it on my laptop… 2.15h without doing anything… this program, i’m sure of, would have bought me some more time. With xp-pro though it lasts 4.20h without doing anything. (the same go’s for a equal Linux version).

  • http://www.online-tech-tips.com/windows-vista/use-vista-battery-saver-to-increase-the-battery-life-of-your-vista-laptop/ Use Vista Battery Saver to increase the battery life of your Vista laptop
  • http://www.tech4dummies.net praveen

    All the Laptops are equipped with 6 cell Lithium Ion baterry. If you have got the money replace it with 9 cell Lithium Ion battery,easily you can get one more hour of battery power.

    if you can get your work done from windows xp it self try to switch to windows xp instead of windows vista.

    disable the windows vista aero interface.

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com/ Nirmal

    Right now I dont own a laptop, will try this when i get one soon.