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HD Battery Saver #2 - Disable Visual Effects (Aero!)

2009-02-12
hey everyone and welcome to the second part of this series this is the battery saving tips series and this particular tip works very well in Windows Vista I'm going to show you a little software part after this sexual camera review so the second tip in this tutorial is going to be to disable Aero Windows Vista Aero you probably already know this is what it's basically the you know the flip 3d and the cool little fades and the tasks things popping in in Windows Vista this actually does work your GPU quite hard not your CPU but your GP your graphic your graphics processing unit so with a laptop obviously this laptop a 17 inch model has a built-in graphics card an NVIDIA GeForce with 512 Meg's of built-in RAM it's it's gonna heat up and it's got it's going to use a lot more battery than normally than a normal laptop would that doesn't have a built-in graphics graphics card or maybe just has integrated graphics so disabling Windows Aero will save you a lot of battery life quite a bit actually if you're say you're on the airplane and you really want Mac's battery and you're not too concerned maybe you're just checking your offline Gmail like I showed you how in a tutorial or maybe you're just watching movie or listen to some music so I don't really need windows Aero so go ahead and check out this software view on how to disable windows Aero all right here's the software part guys first of all you're going to right click on your desktop anywhere in Windows Vista and hit the personalize button you may assume for another you know YouTube tutorials YouTube videos on how to speed up windows well not only will this speed it up and make operations faster but this will also give you quite a long battery life so go to windows color and appearance and open classic and properties for more color options so it's kind of open this window you'll see here this says Windows Aero color scheme now what I'm going to do is hit was Vista basic it didn't change the preview I'm not sure why the Aero preview was weird well you can see like the transparent chat bar and the cool little things so under appearance just take Windows standard which will bring you way back to Windows 90 or just go to classic or Vista based or something and you can enjoy that too now I'm going to cancel because I'm plugged in right now but that's the easy way to fine-tune your color and style of windows now if you don't want to go the domestic way and disable Aero completely what you can do is just to disable transparency by unchecking that right there and as you can see if I go over my rocket dock you can't see it in the background so that is a quicker less intensive way to speed up your computer and run with way way longer battery life so don't be fooled disabling Aero will save you quite a bit of battery life when you're not exactly using all the graphics and having a real desktop experience so thanks for watching guys that was my tutorial on how to that was my second part in the video tutorial series on how to speed up windows on not on how to speed up windows now this is the second part of the video tutorial series on how to save battery life in Windows Vista so thanks for watching and I'll keep the videos coming peace
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