When you want to save battery life on a laptop or save energy and have a cool and quiet computer it is best to use that "Power Saver" energy scheme. However, sometimes you want to use the full power of your computer when loading programs or performing specific CPU intensive tasks. Not even the "Balanced" energy scheme allows you to have the best of both worlds.
This program is switching automatic between low and high power energy plans depending on the load of the CPU, which programs you are using, if the system is idle or overheated. This way you will always save energy when no power is needed, but also make all power available once the system needs it. The program itself has been made in such a way that it has no impact on the CPU load at all, so you only save more energy by running it.
On the top part of the GiMeSpace Power Control window you can select the 2 power schemes you want to switch between, it can be the system default schemes or custom schemes. It is recommended to use the "Power Saver" as the low power scheme and the "Balanced" as the high power scheme. "Balanced" provides more dynamic CPU frequency adjustments then the "High Performance" scheme: You get more often higher boost frequencies in the "Balanced" scheme.
Next you can adjust the CPU loads that trickers a switch between the schemes.
The low setting is the percentage that will cause a switch to the low power scheme if the CPU load drops below this number. Around 15 to 20% usually works well. The high setting is the percentage that will cause a switch to the high power scheme if the CPU load goes above this number. Around 70 to 80% usually works well.
Please note that once a switch to the high power scheme has been made the CPU load drops automatic because there is more CPU capacity available on a higher frequency.
Then you can select the minimum time that needs to pass before a switch back is allowed. This to prevent too much switching.
The next setting is the setting that tells this program how often the CPU load is checked. At 0.5 seconds the program will respond very fast to sudden changes in the CPU load however because the load is measured over such a small time period, it might react to small spikes in the CPU load that would not require a change of power scheme. 1 Second is usually a good time measurement. 2 Seconds will be more smooth and will not cause too much switching.
You can also switch manually by simply clicking on the notification area icon. Right clicking on this icon brings up a menu for a quick access to some options or exit this program.
Then there is the ability to monitor the CPU temperature.
!Please note, this is only working when the program has administrator rights!
To always run this program as admin you can right click on the executable select properties and then in the compatibility tab you select "Run as Administartor".
You can enable this function and set the limiting temperature in Celsius. When the CPU gets this hot it will switch to the powersaving scheme and it will stay there until the CPU temperature drops below 50C.
This function is very useful since some programs and even Windows services sometimes get into endless loops doing nothing but running your CPU in loops causing overheating and high energy usage. This function protects your CPU against these badly behaved programs.
The temperature measured is the thermal area of the CPU which shows slightly different temperatures then cores themselves.
Then there is the ability to switch to the low power scheme when the user hasn't used the keyboard or mouse for a certain amount of minutes.
This is an easy way to make sure your computer doesn't use much power when you left your computer for a while and make sure certain idle time background processes don't use too much energy. For example there is a windows service that is testing your memory while the computer is idle wasting a lot of energy, in the low power scheme this will use a lot less energy.
Next there is the option to pause the switching of powerschemes based on CPU load or active program.
Then there are the options to prevent the computer going to sleep or the display to turn off. Last option allows you to remove these locks after a certain amount of hours. This can be handy to make sure the computer can complete a task without the powerscheme turning the computer off.
In the power profiles tab you can specify which programs need to run under which power scheme.
Programs are identified by their windows class name since their title bar is often changing according to the files loaded.
When a program is running (and not minimized) select in the power profiles tab the class name of the program and then next to it the required power scheme.
When this program is running and not minimized it will enforce that power scheme to be active.
Please note that when you minimize the program or quit it that this power scheme will no longer be enforced. Also the temperature protection and the inactive user options when enabled are able to enforce the power saver scheme when their conditions require so.
In the Edit Hidden Settings tab you are now able to change all the settings of all the power schemes, even the settings that are normally hidden. Make sure you know what you are doing when changing hidden settings! GiMeSpace is not responsible for any trouble you might experience by changing these settings.
Changes are directly written to the selected power scheme, to make them actual you can press the Apply Settings button which will load the scheme you are working on. You can restore de default values of each setting by pressing the Reset Setting button.
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