WinXP Patch Fixes battery drain - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)

[LeMarsu]

If you have a look at MS KB918005 "Battery power may drain more quickly than you expect on a Windows XP SP2-based portable computer"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918005

[Turtle]

Interesting. I looked at that KB article a long time ago and there was never a patch available for download. I had to fix it manually with registry tweaks. After I did the registry tweaks, I started hearing the famous "whine" that everyone complains about in Windows XP (prior to the registry hack for power states, I only heard the whine in OS X).

[enj0y]

hello,

can you paste the registry tweaks you mentioned? i experience the whine under osx but not under windows (please dont reply saying i should be happy about that), so i guess the cpu powersaving features are not completely used.

greetings

[kirreip]

how about downloading the patch from the link mentioned above? no need to tweak the registry

[enj0y]

hi,

i did, and that didnt improve anything

greetings