Does anyone know of a hotfix for excessive battery consumption on windows XP home edition? I?
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what brand is that laptop?  what model?\n\nwhat are you doing for those 20 minutes -- burning DVDs? or just surfing the web?
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Buy better batteries and/or external batteries, turn on all the power-save options like turn-off backlight, hibernate, suspend, and so on.
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if it is about the screen saver,\nright click (anywhere except taskbar) on your desktop -- properties -- tab screensaver -- change the drop list menu (e.g. to none) and also check for power setting (the button below the drop list menu)
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check "turn of hard drive" timeout under power management (Right-click destop, properties, screensaver, Power). If it's like 1-2 minutes, amke it 15. Also check other settings, you might find other things that tip the balance from battery life to performance.
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Usually, there is a system tray icon either for your batteries or you plugged in power, that you can select.  For instance, on mine, if I right-click the power icon in my system tray, I can select "adjust power properties".   You should be able to find something similar in your Control Panel.\n\nIn those options, you should have the choice to enable or disable hibernate support.
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well go to control panel-power settings and adjust it from there ... make sure you dont have the settings too sensitive ... enjoy ..
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ooo, sounds like it's been possessed by the ghost of Microsoft!  best disable automatic upgrades...  ;-)
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disable some heavy startup applications...... or try to repair your  system
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This is a known issue with Windows 98.  To resolve, go into desktop properties, Screensaver tab, the settings button under "energy saving features for your monitor".  Under the Power Schemes tab, change the power scheme to always on, and make sure everything is set to never.
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XP W/ SP 2 IS ACTUALLY (man, that's annoying) quite stable.  With problems like that I'd try reinstalling Windows--this'll give you a fresh install and wipe out stuff running in the background.  If same thing happens with fresh install you probably have a hardware problem.
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BUG FIXES \nBETTER POWER HOOKUP\n\nSPRING 2006
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Sure! Make sure any scheduled tasks use the advanced mode to bring system out of standby.\nSTART, ALL Programs, Accessories,System Tools,Scheduled Tasks - then choose:\nProperties, Settings, Wake the Computer to run this Task
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http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
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Change your power management settings...\nRight click on Desktop, go to properties, Screensaver, hit the button at the bottom that says power and adjust the settings as necessary.
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if its xp it probably just needs to have the cookies, temporary internet files, and the msconfig startup cleaned out. how many icons do you have showing up next to the clock?
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you can also try running virus scan and spyware removal, to get rid of all the junk that is using your system resources without your knowledge, also if you are running windows xp or 2000 press ctrl, alt, delete and bring up the task manager, go to the processes tab and see what is actually running on your system and how much memory usage each program is running, if you see something that is using a large chunk of memory and you know for absolutely certain that it is not a vital program for your operating system, like explorer, shut it down if you arent using it, you can also run through the add/remove programs list in control panel and remove programs that you will never use that run in the background while your computer is on, there are a lot of little tweaks you can do to take advantage of what little ram you have
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Try Tweak IU also know as powertoys by microsoft.  Tons of cool thing in it.  Also, it is free.