Maximising laptop battery life

[Liam Proven]

On 8 February 2014 15:48, David Fletcher <dave at thefletchers.net> wrote:
> It's an Acer Extensa 5510, now upgraded to 4GB RAM. There's enough under
> the hood to run MS Office, under MS XP, under VirtualBox, "just in case"
> she needs it!

You still leave me to Google the machine myself to find out the CPU by
poring through the Google results.

I suggest that you read this:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

It appears to be a Core 2 Duo, about 1.83GHz. I doubt that you'll see
much difference between LibreOffice and Gedit on such a system.

If you have a version of MS Office, note that you could probably run
it effectively under WINE. This will be a lot more efficient than via
a VM.

> BTW I was fiddling around the other day to get a fresh, clean, updated
> XP VM before they cut out the support in April. I found that if you've
> got an installer with SP2 on the CD, the updater won't work any more.

What updater is this?

> I
> also found that you can manually download Service Pack 3, install that,
> then the update works.

Well that would certainly save a lot of time. So does manually
downloading and installing IE8; this means WindowsUpdate will not
patch IE6 with 100+ security hotfixes /then/ upgrade it. WindowsUpate
itself also seems quicker under IE8 to me.


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