Ok, now I have another question based on power conservation. When I use my laptop, I'm mainly on the internet, but, I'm not consistently utilizing the network.

So, I was basically wondering, if anyone has seen a program, that after a certain time delay, the network will automatically disable itself. But when there is a network request sent out, it automatically re-enables the network.

Any ideas?

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I was reading somewhere on the net, that, when you have the computer on "Power Saver" mode, it will automatically disable Windows Aero interface when you put the computer on battery.

I was just wondering if anyone here has been able to do this. I'm running Vista Home Basic, so maybe it just isn't possible with Basic.

Anyway, just wondering.

Edited May 25, 200717 yr by cygnus

Vista Basic doesn't support Aero. You've probably find an alternate way of runing Aero on Vista Home Basic.

I have Vista business on my laptop and Aero isn't turned off when I switch to battery power, although Aero is draining battery preety fast.

Apparently there's a fix for this issue, but I haven't tried it:

http://www.wincert.net/index.php?option=co...5&Itemid=42

Thanks N1K, worked perfectly

I take my laptop off of A/C and it immediately goes to Vista Basic theme. I will test this out and see how much battery is saved.

Will post back with my results

Vista Basic doesn't support Aero.

It does, and it doesn't. I don't have the fancy transparency effects, but I do have the new GUI. ie) Shadows under windows, fancy title bars and such.

Screens:

Vista Basic:

Vista Standard:

Edited May 25, 200717 yr by cygnus

updated question, see first post.