Microsoft Investigates Laptop Battery Drain in Windows 7
Microsoft Investigates Laptop Battery Drain in Windows 7
Posted 02/03/2010 at 9:45am
| by Paul Lilly
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Redmond, we have a problem. According to several user reports, Windows 7 inherited Vista's poor power management when it comes to laptop battery life.
The reports mostly come from users on Microsoft's TechNet forum, who complain of reductions in battery life from two hours down to 30 minutes, and in some cases, even less. There have also been complaints of batteries not fully recharging, and some have even claimed that their laptop batteries are forever damaged by whatever drainage problem might be occurring.
These types of issues also plagued Vista and were supposed to be addressed in Windows 7. Towards that end, Microsoft said it was investigating the potential problem, noting that part of the issue relates to the BIOS. According to a Microsoft spokesman, the appearance of error messages suggesting that users replace a perfectly good battery is likely a BIOS issue and the result of Windows 7 pulling data from the PC's firmware.
Battery drainage complaints in Windows 7 are nothing new and have been noted by users dating back to the OS's beta testing days. The issue is particularly problematic for netbook users.
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COMMANDER_COOK
February 03, 2010 at 10:45pm
I get up to 4 hours on my HP HDX 1370, which is still better than Vista was giving.
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DBsantos77
February 03, 2010 at 6:30pm
I only get 4 hours tops on my DV5 medium energy settings.
-Santos
arkarkwin
February 03, 2010 at 1:09pm
I bought a HP laptop with AMD neo processor with window 7 that suppose to give me 7 to 8 hours of useage. I barely got past 4 hours on minium battery mode. I contacted HP and they give a step by step wayt to calibrate battery and try to run the computer in mininum power usage mode. I am still only getting 3.5 to 4 hour of use. I hope they fix it soon enough
Windows Securit...
February 03, 2010 at 4:29pm
You should get 6 - 8 hours on XP-SP2 so what are you waiting for?
Linux???
Windows Securit...
February 03, 2010 at 10:15am
No, its not a BIOS issue!
Its the NSA spyware platform called either Vista or Windows 7 continually tracking all usage patterns and logging all keystrokes to disk in encrypted format as well as transferring said data accross the network as needed by the antichrist!
Who on planet earth would even pretend to believe this is a BIOS issue???
Microsoft Of Course!
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