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CpuIdle on Windows Vista

We’ve recently analyzed if CpuIdle can be supported on Windows Vista. The good news is: yes it can! However, due to changes Microsoft implemente in Vista, the are currently some constraints.

Due to user account control (UAC), CpuIdle is no longer able to access the registry keys required to allow CpuIdle to add itself to the programs run when Windows starts. No error message will be displayed, but CpuIdle also won’t start automatically. To work around this issue, the following options exist:

  • manually add CpuIdle to the AutoStart group
  • disable UAC in the Windows policies (this might cause security issues)

The third possible option would be to run CpuIdle with administrator rights (Right-click, Run As Administrator or use the compatibility options). The downside of this is that Windows does from now on display a security warning when starting CpuIdle.

Since Microsoft received a lot of criticism regarding UAC in Vista Beta2, we’re currently not rolling out an updated version with Vista support but will wait for Beta 3 and changes in UAC to be released.

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3 Responses to “CpuIdle on Windows Vista”

  1. Vidar Says:
    March 4th, 2007 at 7:15 pm

    Hello!

    I have a old computer with MSI Motherboard_6380E KT3_Ultra and a Athlon XP 1900 (K7) with Vista Buisness installed. CpuIDLE makes the computer reboot so I can’t use it.

    There seems to be some trouble with AMD K7 & K8 throttling on Vista.
    http://forums.amd.com/lofiversion/index.php/t86327.html

    So it is would be great if CpuIDLE would support K7 & K8 on Vista.

    Regards
    Vidar

  2. Chan Says:
    June 21st, 2007 at 8:15 pm

    Hiya, I just tried the CpuIdle Vista Beta Trial on Vista x64 Ultimate.

    I keep getting this message:

    ‘Couldn’t open CpuIdle driver , make sure to reboot after installation.’

    every time I try to start it.

    I installed it with Administrator rights & have tried many times to run it with admin rights (by right-clicking & selecting ‘run as admin’).
    I have UAC turned OFF, and have uninstalled, restarted & reinstalled many, many times.

    Any help?

    Does CouIdle just not work on x64 systems? (I have a Intel Core 2 Duo (is x64)).

  3. andig Says:
    April 20th, 2010 at 3:51 pm

    Vista/Win7 are supported in the latest version. x64 is not supported and will probably not be as I’m missing the test platform.

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