Setting Power Settings Best.. In Windows Vista

Now i took the honor of making a picture & text walk through to make the best power decisions in power management that i have seen by the best people on this forum.
Enjoy.

First off go to:
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Nextly, go to change advanced power settings.
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Go under hard disk>> Turn off after>> Make it 15 min.
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If you want your USB ports to stay on from suspending off.. select disabled.. however.. if you don't want then on.. enable this feature
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For the display, 14min. Unless you want to turn it off before that, but incase you forogt, put it like something around there so you don't burn out your monitor lol.
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Look at all the others carefully and choose what you want. When you are done. Click Apply, the ok.
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Hope this helped
Later

oh and btw.. let me know any other pic..walthroughs i can do for ya guys

Hi PCessna, visual tutorials are wonderful, thank you for your contribution. I am running Vista Business on my laptop and my Power Plan Options aren't quite the same as yours. What version are you running?

Hi PCessna, visual tutorials are wonderful, thank you for your contribution.

I am running Vista Business on my laptop and my Power Plan Options aren't quite the same as yours. What version are you running?

I am running Home Premium, but 'biz claims to "Run differently" sorrys.. Anything else i would be glad to help you with but i am sure you gut the gist of it, thanks.