Power Management tips for Windows Vista operating system

In Windows Vista, Microsoft takes the state of sleep as the default energy-saving way. Compared with traditional standby or hibernation, sleep states combine the advantages of both: when the system goes to sleep, automatically saves the data in memory to the hard disk (similar to hibernation), but does not cut off the power to the memory, the data in memory will be maintained (similar to standby), which is equivalent to the system added a double insurance. If you don't lose electricity during sleep, then, when the recovery, the system is like resuming from standby, as long as a few seconds to return to the normal state; If you lose power, then the computer will resume as if from hibernation, as long as you can return to normal state.

In the default installation, Windows Vista uses its energy-saving model, called the Balance scheme (balanced plan), which, in many people's tests, has a DOJ set of preset settings to sleep after 1 hours of inactivity in the system: someone accuses the 1-hour time of being too long and another Some people think that an hour is too short--tread, Microsoft is pathetic too--and more people are dissatisfied with the hidden deep menu of Microsoft's default setting of the Shutdown button in the > Start menu to sleep and the real shutdown. So is there any way to adjust these settings?

Energy saving mode in custom power management

In Windows Vista, there are three preset savings patterns that are balanced (balanced), energy-saving optimization (power Saver) and performance first (high performance), which are available in the Control Panel options, and for desktop users, If energy saving is not your concern, then you can directly select the performance first (high performance) mode, so that your system will not sleep in 1 hours, and for notebook users, it may be wiser to choose the energy-saving optimization (Power Saver) mode.

If none of the three preset modes meet your requirements, you can modify the settings after selecting one of them, such as desktop users, although using the default balance (balanced) mode, change their idle time to a sleep state for 2 hours or more.

Of course, the better option is to create a custom energy-saving solution: Click on the Create energy-saving scheme in the left panel to set it up.

To modify the Shutdown button for the Start menu

For Windows Vista to preset the shutdown (Power) button in the Start menu to go to sleep instead of the traditional shutdown, the debate has been fierce, and it may only be time for Microsoft to prove its wisdom. However, for most users, you can only passively accept: by clicking on the small arrow next to the Shutdown and lock button, find the appropriate option to turn off the shutdown completely.

In fact, there is a simpler way to change the preset of the Shutdown (Power) button back to the traditional shut down so that when the power button is clicked, the system shuts down automatically.

To do this, you need to modify the selected preset energy saving schemes or custom energy-saving scenarios. As shown in the example above, the selected energy-saving scheme is in the balance (balanced) mode, click the Modify Advanced Power setting (change advanced) link, and then shut down the Start menu in the pop-up window (Start menu Power butt On) is changed to shut down.