Vista and power options on R51

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Vista and power options on R51

#1 Post by beck » Sat Aug 29, 2009 4:02 pm

Hi,

I hope someone can help with this.

On my XP partition, there is a "power options" in control panel that is very nice. It doesn't say, but I assume it's an IBM tool. Has alarms etc, etc.

On my Vista Ultimate partition, I downloaded and installed everything I could find for the Thinkpad to get all the special functions. However, I seem to be missing my nice power options. The one in control panel is Vista generic and has nothing about battery power etc.

So, did I miss something to get the nice power options back? Or is there a tool to download that you can recommend that lets you setup alarms and set options on all the parts of your laptop?

Thank you!
Audrey :)

R51 that's still working great!

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Re: Vista and power options on R51

#2 Post by goofyGAguy » Sat Aug 29, 2009 7:16 pm


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Re: Vista and power options on R51

#3 Post by beck » Tue Sep 01, 2009 10:57 am

Thank you so much!

One question tho, it says R51e. I only have the R51. Will the tools that say R51e all work for the plain old R51?
Audrey :)

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Re: Vista and power options on R51

#4 Post by goofyGAguy » Tue Sep 01, 2009 11:35 am

beck wrote: Will the tools that say R51e all work for the plain old R51?


I use Power Manager v. 1.60 on my R51 running XP. It likewise is listed as not supported on the R51. It works perfectly. Hope that helps.

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