Windows Vista and Windows 7 has a very good power management scheme, which can be customize as per your requirements. But if you want to change the power plans automatically; for example, during your working hours you would prefer high performance, but at night, a power saver plan would be good. You can not do it with the default power management scheme. This is a very useful feature which is missing in the default windows power management scheme.

PowerSlave is a free windows utility which allows you to control the power management scheme in windows. It allows you to define your working day start time and end time. It then lets the user choose one power scheme that will be used during the working day and a second power scheme that will be used at night.

PowerSlave runs from the system tray. It monitors the time and switches the power schemes automatically. If PowerSlave is not able to run properly, you will need to give full control for the application in Vista and Windows 7 (or run as administrator).

The advantage of using PowerSlave is the savings in energy and power and in turn savings in cost. Please note that PowerSlave is FREE only for personal use.

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