If you’re a Vista laptop owner you definitely want this application installed on your machine.
It’s a Vista Battery Saver !
What it does, is when you switch from A/C to batter it will disable Sidebar and Aero (all of this is of course configurable). I can squeeze out over 40 minutes more of battery time with this little application. Also, this is and open source project written in C#. Here’s the code. It’s a very interesting read.
Hope it helps.
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