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    Battery Life X220T Windows 8

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by driekus, Nov 17, 2012.

  1. driekus

    driekus Notebook Consultant

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    I just decided to install Windows 8 on my X220T.
    I did a clean install. The problem is that my battery life is around 1h 40 minutes and I cant figure out what the problem is.
    Does anyone have any pointers?
     
    driekus, Nov 17, 2012
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Reinstall Windows 7?

    In all seriousness, did you reinstall the Power Manager and all the proper drivers?
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Nov 17, 2012
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    driekus Notebook Consultant

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    Yes, installed all the proper drivers using Lenovo's update utility.

    I think I may have found the problem. I think it is a program that starts up at boot that is causing the problem. I was playing around removing unessential programs from startup and power use dropped on reboot.

    Have it down to:
    Steam
    Adobe CS updater
    Adobe Acrobat Updater

    I really do like Windows 8. Far cleaner and faster than Windows 7 so not keen to go back.
     
    driekus, Nov 17, 2012
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