Zionworx

Have a new laptop which is doing everything like a real treat, including playing dvd on the secondary monitor etc.

One little problem that I am trying to work around, and thought someone here might be able to illuminate me...

When I run the laptop on battery power, everything becomes so darn slow. Powerpoint takes ages, Zionworks slows down significantly, and loading programmes takes for ever.

Anybody know if there is any way to stop this? I assume it is in some sort of effort to preserve battery life that it underpowers the processor or something?

Can anyobne illuminate and speed me up?

Chris

Chris,
On my W2K, I would go to Control Panel->Power Options Properties. One of the tabs (on mind, it is Intel Speedstep Technology) will be used to set performance.

God bless,
William

Just to close in on this one - i discovered my problem under XP

I had my power settings set to 'Presenter' thinking that was a good solid option. Unfortunately this is not so - 'Presenter' is one of the weakest power settings, and least suitable for giving presentations.