Hey everyone and welcome to the second part of this series. This is the battery saving tips series and this particular tip works very well in Windows Vista. I'm going to show you a little software part after this actual camera review, so the second tip in this tutorial is going to be to disable arrow. Windows Vista arrow, you probably know this is what is basically all the flip 3D and the cool little fades and the task things popping in Windows Vista. This actually does work your GPU quite hard. Not your CPU but your GPU, your Graphic Processing Unit. So with the laptop, obviously this laptop 17 inch model has a built in graphics card a Nvidia G Force with 512 megs of built in RAM. It’s going to heat up and it’s going to use a lot more battery than a normal laptop would that doesn’t have a built in graphics card that maybe just have an integrated graphics.
So disabling Windows arrow will save you a lot of battery life quite a bit actually. Say you're on an airplane and really max battery and you're not too concern, maybe you're just checking your offline Gmail like I showed you how on a tutorial or maybe you're just watching movie or listening to some music. So I don’t really need Windows arrow, so go ahead and check out this soft review on how to disable Windows arrow.
Alright, here’s the software part guys. First of all, you're going to right click on your desktop anywhere in Windows Vista and hit the personalize button. You may have seen this before in other YouTube tutorial, YouTube videos on how to speed up Windows. Well not only will this speed it up and make operations faster but this will also give you quite a long battery life.
So go to Windows color and appearance and open classic appearance properties for more color options. So it’s going to open this window and you’ll see here, this says Windows arrow color scheme.
Now what I'm going to do is hit Windows Vista basic, I didn’t change the preview. I'm not sure why the arrow preview was weird. But you can see like the transparent task bar and the cool little fade things. So under appearance, just take Windows standard which will bring you way back to Windows 98 or just go to classic or Vista base or something and you can enjoy that to. Now I'm going to cancel because I'm plugged in right now, but that’s the easy way to fine tune your color and style of Windows.
Now if you don’t want to go the drastic way and disable arrow completely, what you can do is just to disable transparency by unchecking that right there and as you can see if I go over you can see it in the background. So that is a quicker and less intensive way to speed up your computer and run with way way longer battery life. So don’t be fooled. Disabling arrow will save you quite a bit of battery life when you're not exactly using all the graphics and having a real desktop experience.
So thanks for watching guys. This is the second part of video tutorial series on how to save battery life in Windows Vista. So thanks for watching. And I’ll keep the videos coming. Peace.
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