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[charmr]

Can someone please post a working link to this. Or let me know if there some other fix these days? Thanks!

[XorXor]

There is a fix! A free 3rd party app named 'Power Plan Assistant for Windows 7' does it all, and does nice! Program's capabilities:

Power Plan Assistant allows a user to:
1. Switch between the Windows® built-in power plans (all power plans, including custom plans, not just 2 of them, as it is when operating via system Power icon);
2. Easily observe which power plan is currently active (dynamic application icon in a taskbar notification area changes in accordance with an active power plan, does not matter where it has been changed - in a Control Panel, system Power icon or in the Power Plan Assistant itself);
3. Instantly power off the display on user's demand (why wait at least one minute for it to be powered off, wasting the energy?). The display can be waked up then by pressing any key or moving the cursor;
4. Switch the power plans automatically:
- to 'Power Saver' (to preventively save the energy if the battery level goes low);
- to 'High Performance' (on plugging in);
- to 'Balanced' (on plugging out).

Download link: http://www.techspot.com/downloads/4883-pow...-windows-7.html

[xpclient]

Power Plan Assistant is nagware prompting you to donate after a few days.

[Nightwind Hawk]

Cheerpipe: that looks awesome!

If there's anything I would hope for in the future it'd be a button to turn off the LCD

[D.J.P]

Cheerpipe's program looked good, pitty its gone (and so appears the author too).

tuxplorer: I sent the author of it a e-mail, asking for a suggestion (switch to Power-Saver upon unplugging rather then Balanced) and a little polite message saying his program was more Trialware then Donation-ware.

[osuwildlifer]

^ reported.

They removed the spammer. Cheers.

[remixedcat]

awww thought this was for windows 8 my bad....