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ACER Utilities with Vista
Hi,
Well, after installing RC1 and it not realising am on a notebook (cannot get ANY battery options up) - dunno if its because I done a dual boot or missed an option on the set-up but anyhoo, I wondered if there was an e-power management or summuts out their for notebooks? cheers, (ps. any help on the battery front welcome too!) |
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ACER Utilities with Vista
Right-click desktop Personalize Screensaver Power Management. Click
the Change Power Settings link. There you can change power plan and fiddle about a bit -- Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation :-) "Marc Nutty" wrote in message ... Hi, Well, after installing RC1 and it not realising am on a notebook (cannot get ANY battery options up) - dunno if its because I done a dual boot or missed an option on the set-up but anyhoo, I wondered if there was an e-power management or summuts out their for notebooks? cheers, (ps. any help on the battery front welcome too!) |
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ACER Utilities with Vista
lol, yes I know all that, what I think it is, is that my laptop isnt OEM, it
came pre-installed with XP from ACER, therefore prob needing their utilities to get the battery power schemes. "Jane C" wrote in message ... Right-click desktop Personalize Screensaver Power Management. Click the Change Power Settings link. There you can change power plan and fiddle about a bit -- Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation :-) "Marc Nutty" wrote in message ... Hi, Well, after installing RC1 and it not realising am on a notebook (cannot get ANY battery options up) - dunno if its because I done a dual boot or missed an option on the set-up but anyhoo, I wondered if there was an e-power management or summuts out their for notebooks? cheers, (ps. any help on the battery front welcome too!) |
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ACER Utilities with Vista
"Marc Nutty" wrote in message ... lol, yes I know all that, what I think it is, is that my laptop isnt OEM, it came pre-installed with XP from ACER, therefore prob needing their utilities to get the battery power schemes. What you have on your XP has nowt to do with what you have on Vista, they run entirely seperate. I have an Acer laptop and didn't like their preinstalled XP so purchased a normal oem XP. I still have the battery options in Vista. You can download the utilities from Acer website but to be honest I doubt it will work. I tried installing one of them the other day and it failed saying XP only. http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/downloads.html |
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ACER Utilities with Vista
Yes i tryed the website, got the same problem.
So can I ask if you got battery power options etc... where am I going wrong? lol cheers, "Beck" beck@none wrote in message ... "Marc Nutty" wrote in message ... lol, yes I know all that, what I think it is, is that my laptop isnt OEM, it came pre-installed with XP from ACER, therefore prob needing their utilities to get the battery power schemes. What you have on your XP has nowt to do with what you have on Vista, they run entirely seperate. I have an Acer laptop and didn't like their preinstalled XP so purchased a normal oem XP. I still have the battery options in Vista. You can download the utilities from Acer website but to be honest I doubt it will work. I tried installing one of them the other day and it failed saying XP only. http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/downloads.html |
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ACER Utilities with Vista
"Marc Nutty" wrote in message ... Yes i tryed the website, got the same problem. So can I ask if you got battery power options etc... where am I going wrong? lol Go to search and type Power. Power options should be top of the list. Click on that and it should take you to the power options for your battery. If you are connected to mains, try unplugging the battery and plugging it back in. You should have a little power icon by the clock. |
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ACER Utilities with Vista
Tryed that and still no success When i un-plug from the mains the screen
brighness dimms a little lol, but thats it! "Beck" beck@none wrote in message ... "Marc Nutty" wrote in message ... Yes i tryed the website, got the same problem. So can I ask if you got battery power options etc... where am I going wrong? lol Go to search and type Power. Power options should be top of the list. Click on that and it should take you to the power options for your battery. If you are connected to mains, try unplugging the battery and plugging it back in. You should have a little power icon by the clock. |
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ACER Utilities with Vista
"Marc Nutty" wrote in message ... Tryed that and still no success When i un-plug from the mains the screen brighness dimms a little lol, but thats it! What do you see when you go into power options? If you cannot see power options in the start list, you will find it in hardware and sound within the control panel. |
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ACER Utilities with Vista
ok,
here's the link: http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/7350/power1yt2.jpg PS. On my XP installation I un-installed the ACER power management and the windows power management took over (good good). "Beck" beck@none wrote in message ... "Marc Nutty" wrote in message ... Tryed that and still no success When i un-plug from the mains the screen brighness dimms a little lol, but thats it! What do you see when you go into power options? If you cannot see power options in the start list, you will find it in hardware and sound within the control panel. |
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ACER Utilities with Vista
"Marc Nutty" wrote in message ... ok, here's the link: http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/7350/power1yt2.jpg PS. On my XP installation I un-installed the ACER power management and the windows power management took over (good good). Well I be damned. I am sorry I got it wrong. |
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