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Aerofoil offers a bunch of quick and dirty settings to improve Windows battery life and also make it run better. According to some reports it can improve your battery life by up to 25%, which is pretty cool. Open source and useful.
Allowing you to manually disable Aero Glass. * Optionally managing Aero Glass user interface. * Optionally managing sound muting. * Optionally managing your chosen power plans. * Optionally managing Windows Sidebar. * Optionally showing a quick hibernate button. * Changing icon colour to show your power type.
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Nigel is the managing editor of the Red Ferret, as well as a freelance columnist for the Sunday Times newspaper in London. Loves tech and fancies himself as a bit of a futurist, but then don't we all?
Nigel – who has written 5153 posts on The Red Ferret Journal.
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