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If you are a Notebook or Netbook user, running Windows 7, then this is a MUST HAVE tool for you. Power Plan Assistant provides you easily accessible shell menu items to effortlessy switch between various Power Modes thereby allowing you to manage the balance between Battery life and Performance as and when you need very seamlessly.

Here’s a list of Features from their site :

Power Plan Assistant for Windows® 7 – Features and Benefits
Power Plan Assistant is a smart power plan management application, designed specifically for Microsoft® Windows® 7 operating system.
All the 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows® 7 are fully supported (on 64-bit operating system, the native 64-bit binaries will installed automatically).

With Power Plan Assistant you can:
1. Easily switch between the Windows® built-in/custom power plans (all, not 2 of them, as when operating via system Power icon) and instantly power off a display
on user’s demand (why wait at least one minute for it to be powered off, wasting energy?). It can be waked up then by pressing any key or moving the cursor;

2. Always observe which power plan is currently active (as shown on the screenshots above, the dynamic application’s icon in a taskbar notification area changes in
accordance with the 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. 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) and
to ‘Balanced’ (on plugging out). As shown on a screenshot below, every Power Plan Assistant’s setting is user-configurable, i.e. user can enable or disable it,
either permanently or for a current session only. Even the balloon messages and the notification icon appearance/behavior can be customized.

When application is started, please refer to ‘left-click’ actions menu and ‘right-click’ settings menu, where you can view/modify all the available settings.

Download Windows 7 Power Plan Assistant