Vista Laptop Battery Saver
Microsoft confirmed that Vista’s Aero theme is consuming more power which leads to a faster battery drain. They say it is not that much that people should get worried but I personally feel that Aero consumes to much power. I also think that it is a pretty useless feature of Windows Vista. Sure it looks nice but that’s it. The transparency feature of Aero will be disabled whenever you switch to Power Save mode.
This helps but is not enough for me at least. If I work on the road I want maximum battery life and not some fancy interface with Flip 3D tabs and the like. One way to achieve this would be to disable Vista Aero completely, another better way in my opinion would be to turn Aero off automatically when you disconnect the notebook from a power source.
This is what the Vista Laptop Battery Saver does. The little application which consumes only about 3.5 megabytes of memory waits until the laptop changes to battery mode and disables Vista Aero automatically. This is the best way to handle the immense memory consumption of Vista Aero.
