Optimising Battery
Hi Whilst preparing my media for a long haul flight I have coming up recently, I wanted to make sure I got every last drop of energy out of my laptop battery before it ran out. What I wanted to do was have a script which closed all applications which are not required to run. All I want is to be able to watch VLC, but I have a number of programs which are running in the background on startup e.g. Dropbox. Obviously this is no use to me on a plane so why leave it running and have it wasting CPU resource? I first of all found this useful article at Lifehacker for quitting all applications http://lifehacker.com/5670054/create-a-shortcut-that-quits-every-running-windows-program The second thing I wanted this script to do was to change the power management profile to my super battery saving mode. Windows 7 gives you loads of options to tweak this how you see fit. I used the powercfg command to set the profile. More details on this can be found here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...