I found a way to reduce Vista CPU usage

Feb 14, 2007, 01:51 PM #1
feuerri Junior Member Join: Feb 2007 Posts: 3	I found a way to reduce Vista CPU usage I just discovered that by changing the Start -> Control Panel -> Power Options in Vista Enterprise (running under build 3150), I was able to reduce the CPU consumption from 37-40% to about 17-20%. By default, the Power Options setting was Balanced, but I changed it to Power Saver, and CPU usage went down quite a bit. You might also reduce it further by changing the search indexer behavior under the Advanced Settings when you Edit Plan Settings.

Feb 14, 2007, 01:51 PM

feuerri
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I found a way to reduce Vista CPU usage

I just discovered that by changing the Start -> Control Panel -> Power Options in Vista Enterprise (running under build 3150), I was able to reduce the CPU consumption from 37-40% to about 17-20%.

By default, the Power Options setting was Balanced, but I changed it to Power Saver, and CPU usage went down quite a bit. You might also reduce it further by changing the search indexer behavior under the Advanced Settings when you Edit Plan Settings.

Feb 14, 2007, 04:05 PM #2
constant Senior Member Join: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,043	. Can you please post this in the howto forum. .

Feb 14, 2007, 04:23 PM #3
neosublime Member Join: May 2006 Posts: 62	Can anyone else verify this?

Feb 15, 2007, 11:14 AM

doggkruse
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Originally Posted by neosublime

Can anyone else verify this?

I can confirm that setting the energy settings to Powersaver and disabling any unneeded services brought my parallels cpu from 120% to around 15% :D:D

Feb 15, 2007, 11:48 AM

rmeyer52
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Quote:

Originally Posted by doggkruse

I can confirm that setting the energy settings to Powersaver and disabling any unneeded services brought my parallels cpu from 120% to around 15% :D:D

What services did you disable can you please post?

Feb 14, 2007, 05:55 PM

feuerri
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Originally Posted by constant

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Can you please post this in the howto forum.
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It probably should be there once it is confirmed to work for more than just me.

Feb 15, 2007, 12:06 PM #7
sawmac Junior Member Join: Feb 2007 Posts: 2	Yes, I can confirm that this works well. My control panel is set up slightly differently so to get to the option described by feuerri I had to go Start -> Control Panel -> System and Maintenance -> Power Options.

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