Battery Life and Energy Efficiency
Energy efficient hardware design and software implementation are critical for achieving extended battery life in mobile platforms.
Battery Life Solutions
Energy Efficient Design for Battery Life
Designing Power-Friendly Devices
Design concepts and recommendations for multicore platforms, PCI Express 2.0. and USB 2.0
Power Policy Configuration and Deployment in Windows
Power policy store, power policy configuration and reference, how to use PowerCfg tool
Processor Power Management in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
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Windows infrastructure details, guide for pre-install power policies, how to PwrTest to view disk idle behavior
Enery Efficiency for Driver Developers
Increasing System Power Efficiency through Driver Support for Runtime Idle Detection
How drivers for USB and other devices can increase system power efficiency
Energy Efficiency for Application Developers
Application Power Management Best Practices for Windows Vista
Handling sleep/resume, design for common events and media PC scenarios, how to use Power Event Monitoring Tool
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Tips in the Mobile PC User Experience Guidelines for Developers
Measuring and Optimizing Power Performance
- Optimizing Windows Vista Platforms for Energy Efficiency Tips for extending battery life; how to evaluate; example power policy settings to favor power savings
Tools for Testing Energy Efficiency and Power Events
- Building Energy-Smart Applications for Windows Vista [file] Visual Studio example code for responding to common power events
- Powercfg Command-Line Options [TechNet] Command-line documentation
- PwrTest Details on WDK tool for automating S3 behavior
- Using Performance Monitor [TechNet]
Tips from Experts: Energy Efficient Design
Power Management Developer References
- Implementing Power Management
- Industry Specification References for Windows Logo Program
- Power Management
- Windows Logo Program Requirements and Policies
See Also