How to enable power option on Desktop

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Why would you need to switch between performance and balanced? You should always keep a desktop set to "Balanced".

No, i should not keep my desktop to balanced all the time, cause i don't need CPU speed to drop from 3.6Ghz down to 2.1Ghz while i'm playing games with no good reason cause Intel thought that clock speed should be based on load which can create stuttering in games. When i do gaming i need to switch it to performance which means i need that 'sucker' to run 3.6Ghz if necessary for 5 hours straight, and when my computer idles to switch to balanced cause i don't need full CPU speed.

I have no idea why Microsoft thought that Desktop users don't need this power options in system tray but only laptop. Like everything else Microsoft disables or removes good features based on God knows what reason.

I created power options shortcut on desktop for now till i find some way to hack this in registry.

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Do you use the intel speedstep is it called in the bios? if so use that and enable high performance in vista, i think speedstep is better than vista's one as vista's high performance makes use of 100% on the processor.

Intel Speedstep does not work if Power Options is set to performance, only if it's set to Balanced.

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If you right-click on the taskbar and select Properties you should see a "Notification Area" tab with the system icons listed at the bottom. If your Power checkbox is gray and you can't click it make sure you don't have any 3rd-party UPS drivers like PowerChute installed.

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If you right-click on the taskbar and select Properties you should see a "Notification Area" tab with the system icons listed at the bottom. If your Power checkbox is gray and you can't click it make sure you don't have any 3rd-party UPS drivers like PowerChute installed.

Actually no. It stays disabled for desktop.

A desktop should usually be running at high performance all of the time, unless you plan on leaving your system on for weeks on end downloading torrents.

No, i don't do anything on Vista but gaming. I have laptop for my Visual Studio i work in but that's about it.

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Intel Speedstep does not work if Power Options is set to performance, only if it's set to Balanced.

Really, because I have my Power Options set to High and if I check at the desktop it myu Q9300 idles at 2.0ghz and if I alt tab out of a game I see 2.5ghz? I'm not at home right now, but I'll double check it tonight.

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Really, because I have my Power Options set to High and if I check at the desktop it myu Q9300 idles at 2.0ghz and if I alt tab out of a game I see 2.5ghz? I'm not at home right now, but I'll double check it tonight.

Maybe you're right. Maybe after CPU gets overclocked it works only if you set power option to Balanced. Thanks.

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