http://www.mediafire.com/file/wt37sbsejk7iepm/PowerSettingsExplorer.zip Change log: - Export and Import of settings through buttons at the bottom (need to be tested more thoroughly by beta-testers); - New subgroup of settings with name "fea3413e-7e05-4911-9a71-700331f1c294" is placed at the beginning - these are settings without actual subgroup (in dialog with advanced settings these settings are gathered under the first root node with the name of current power plan); - Unhiding the setting when subgroup is hidden itself is now trying to remove hidden status from subgroup too. - Reading of the settings at the start of utility is made multithreaded to be more smooth (you can compare with previous version - whether it became smoother). Next easy feature to implement can be new column in the grid with values which shows which power plan is currently active and lets change it.
The " Energy Saving settings " issue reported above has been corrected by this release. Will test Export / Import feature and report back.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/wt37sbsejk7iepm/PowerSettingsExplorer.zip Change log: - New column "active" is added to the grid with values and schemes to get and set currently active power scheme. - Reading of the settings at the start of utility is improved a bit and fixed a bit in a sense of handling possible exceptions.
@mbk1969 Very good implementation with check marks that indicate which state is active. A question, does the power plan in question have to be active for the changes to take effect? Ex. Header " Hard Disk " then " Turn off hard Disk " I have set the value to " 0 " for the other two power plans Balanced Power Saver But when I close and reopen PowerSettingsExplorer, the value has returned to 1200? When does the program apply any changes? I was thinking about an " Apply Button " could be added. Regards P.S. Haven't given Export / Import a through try yet.
The "Apply" button is in lower left corner and you don't have to be active, but I found the apply function little buggy with it saving. Meaning I hit apply but apply flashes for many seconds, sometimes hitting it again saves right away, it needs to go gray for settings to be saved. I think I got better results by right after editing values, to highlight the plan > balanced, HP etc, then hit apply.
Well, I guess I forgot where the Apply button was located since I have adjusted values with this program already. In any case, Thank You for pointing out it's location . BTW: This has also resolved the issue I reported in the above post.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/wt37sbsejk7iepm/PowerSettingsExplorer.zip Change log: - Attempt to fix strange "Apply" button behaviour (when it doesn`t become disabled after click).
Mostly Processor Power Management subgroup: - Processor performance increase threshold - Processor performance decrease threshold - Processor performance boost policy - Processor performance boost mode - Processor idle demote threshold - Processor idle promote threshold These settings can turn Balanced power scheme into "Performance On Demand" one. Some people just disable P-states and C-states in BIOS. I prefer to play with these settings - it gives more flexibility.
Feature Request: Looking for a Find Text Box. There are so many options that I'm looking for an easier way to locate options that contain a search word of search phase. Highlight existing list or new search window could open that indicates all matching search query. Regards
http://www.mediafire.com/file/wt37sbsejk7iepm/PowerSettingsExplorer.zip Change log: - Pressing <Ctrl>+<F> in the grid with settings shows search toolbar with edit field for search pattern, buttons for searching of next, previous occurrence of pattern, button for hiding of search toolbar; search is performed only in cells of "current" column; search is case insensitive; search is performed with use of regular expressions (Regular Expression Language - Quick Reference), so pattern can be either simple word/part of word/phrase or regular expression.
Great work and nicely done! Find function is working as describe. Feature request #2: Any way of highlighting the column that you are searching. Example: When you Press <Ctrl>+<F> , the first column would automatically be selected and Highlighted. When you want to search in the second column, you click in that column as you described and then that column is now highlighted to verify that you are now searching in that column. This would confirm no search result found in the current selected. Regards P.S. There is currently no way to close the search box after you have open it.
??? Button "hide" to the left of search pattern edit box. I don`t get what do you mean by "highlighted"? You see the selected cell, do you?
When you perform the search function, there is no way to know which column you are actually searching in. If you highlighted the whole column from the top of the column to the bottom of the page after you have clicked into a column, then you would know which column the search is taking place in. This allows you to have visual feedback of two items 1) It shows that you have selected the column you want to search in. 2) If no search results are found then you know which column you were searching. My apologies, I was looking for an " X " to close the search box. The hide function closes ( Hides ) the search box.
To me this sounds as overstatement. Grid with settings has only 4 columns (and 3 textual ones to search). Current cell is always visible. Do you have huge monitor where I have trouble to relate the column of current cell? I am too lazy to search for "X" icon... I can add hiding of the search toolbar by some key. For example <Esc>, or <Ctrl>+<F> (for toggling logic).
Another example for the reason of highlighting: Start the program. Perform a search by Pressing <Ctrl>+<F>. At this moment in time I have no idea which column I am searching in. It doesn't have to be highlighted, just some kind of indication of which column you are searching. I wouldn't use <Esc> , I would use the toggle <Ctrl>+<F> to show or hide [ Close ] the search dialog box. Leave the " Hide " in case someone else would like to use that function or does not know about the toggle.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/wt37sbsejk7iepm/PowerSettingsExplorer.zip Change log: - Key combination <Ctrl>+<F> now toggles the search toolbar (between visible and invisible). - When search toolbar is visible the header cell of current column (in which user searches for the pattern) is highlighted as selected cell.
Find function toggle using Key combination <Ctrl>+<F> and Header cell of current column is now highlighted as describe above. Thank you for implementing the requested features and changes. Great work and nicely done once again!!!! Best Regards
I get a blank screen (flat grey) apart from the box at the bottom with the 4 schemes. Tried running as admin, no change. Does this work on Windows 7?
