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Mobile Battery Solutions Guide for Windows Vista

Updated: February 21, 2008

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This guide outlines issues and solutions for advancing battery life for mobile PCs that run the Windows Vista operating system. It provides system design, power policy guidelines, and preinstallation configuration recommendations as well as test configuration recommendations.

This guide is intended for system and component designers, driver developers, test managers, and pre-installation image engineers who design, deliver, and maintain mobile PC products that deliver a great customer experience with Windows.

This guide also provides useful information for Enterprise IT professionals who need technical information to support hardware investment and management decisions for their mobile PC users.

This information applies for the following operating systems:
Windows Vista
Windows Server 2008

For Windows 7 information see, Mobile Battery Life Solutions for Windows 7

What's New:

Deleted text in Part 2 that indicates wake support is not available for UMDF USB drivers. WInUSB supports this feature for such drivers.

In this white paper:

Why We Need Battery Life Solutions
Selecting the Hardware Platform for Power Efficiency
Device and Driver Performance and Power
OS Configuration of Power Policy
Preinstalled Software and Energy Efficiency
Evaluating and Measuring Battery Life