Power options to high performance

By default, Windows Vista uses some fairly conservative power settings, which can be good for your laptop or for the environment, but maybe not for you if you want your computer running at its maximum speed and capability at all times. To remedy this, Microsoft included a third standard power option in the control panel, the 'high performance' setting. What this does is to disable virtually all power saving features (the hard disks will still spin down after 20 minutes if not accessed), allowing your computer to run at it's full rating even when left unattended.

To set your Vista machine's power profile to 'high performance':

Go to 'start/control panel'

Click on 'classic view' in the left hand pane.

Open 'power options'.

Select the 'high performance' power plan.