I'm not into gardening. I'm handy but I don't really care to improve my house any more. Driving's been a fun thing to do ever since I bought the sportscar and joined the car club. In a typical day of running errands, it's the driving between the errands that's the fun part of my day. It's the commute to and from clients that breaks up the work day.
If I stop driving, what's the fun part of my day? Does the google car come with a google hooker? Because there aren't too many recreational dreams a young man has. Driving's probably in the top three. Maybe the google car comes with unlimited google sandwiches. But even if the hooker serves the sandwiches, how many hours of pleasure can hookers and sandwiches provide in a single day? There's a bottle neck, or two, on my side.
Nice democracy/republic/free country you have there. Since it's your government, and they're working with your tax dollars, you might not want to make things more expensive for them. You might, however, want to cut their budget, and vote them out, and impeech them, and whatever else you do when you both check and balance your government.
You're continuing the conversation how many days after it ended? That's late.
And we're not talking about battery life nor about power use. We're talking about battery consumption. Huge difference. Read harder.
More importantly, this isn't your high school essay with detailed points, explanations, and tutorials. I never gave a number of jueles consumed per item.
This is merely a list of things that the O.P. could investigate to find the answers to his query: what's involved in windows managing idle power.
You chose to pingeon-hole one item in a list of abbreviated items. I switched nothing. Devices that support fewer features necessarily have fewer features in use; they are able to cache items across instances. That doesn't scale with more features. You seem to have needed assistance in expanding a small point into a large one. That's ok, I'm here for you. Is there another bullet point with which I can assist?
It's not about picking the right one. Beta was way better than VHS. Blu-Ray was way better than HD-DVD. Sony lost. Then Sony won. You won't predict it with any degree of precision. Don't try.
You can choose multiple solutions. Odds are that both or many won't all fail at the same time. So you'll better stagger your mistakes.
Or, you can do what I do. I built my own framework. Then it's mine. It's supported by me. It does what my business needs it to do.
If you want to own something, don't give it away. Big surprise. Meanwhile, the author proposes one solution, and labels it absurd: carry a usb thumb drive. Never mentions running their own cloud.
You're correct in saying that printers are now cheap, in every meaning of the word. But 90% of that cheap is on the physical side, which shouldn't matter for SOHO applications.
I bought an HP LaserJet 100 Color MFP M175nw.
As far as printers go, it's visually attractive. It's got a flatbed and sheet feeder scanner, and while the scans ain't exactly colour accurate, it's certainly great enough for business purposes. The print speed is perfectly fine too. The paper tray is fairly small, but in SOHO I can easily keep a stack nearby. As a physical specimen, I wouldn't trust it in a large office environment -- leaning on it, stealing it, and constantly loading it with paper and toner would make it a hassle. But in my environment, those aren't issues.
In the end, I get what I wanted -- a colour laser printer. It was easily obtained. It was ~$200 with 30% toner. Replacement toney is easily ordered and very inexpensive -- it takes four small toner cartridges that total about $250. It takes about 30 seconds to change each one -- again, fine for SOHO. I print approximately 400 pages per month. The toner lasts me over a year.
I've been using this printer for close to two years now. No complaints.
(: I'm not sure that the two were both alive and able to speak at the same time. I'm also not sure that saunas existed during that overlap. I do know that they were not in the same country.
I'm not denying that other systems do camparable things. I'm saying that of all of the other systems, each doesn't do one of the things that windows does, and that's enough to make up for the difference. You've listed OS X. Good for you. Now tell me that Android defrags, file indexes, window drags, and looks for printers. This isn't an exhaustive list. If you'd like me to find one major feature that windows does that OS X doesn't do that may consume power, then pay me to look.
USB polling. Yes I made up 50'000. I didn't look it up like you did. You like hard numbers. Let's take your 8'000 times per second. I like that number. I'm going to take your word that it's the fastest any USB 3.0 port gets polled anywhere in the world. I like hard concepts. So tell me: How many USB ports does your machine have? Mine has 8. So. Here we go. I know how much you like hard math. 8'000Hz per USB port, times 8 USB ports = 64'000Hz. Oh look at that. My totally made up number is completely incorrect. It's actually 64'000 times per second. Neener, neener.
So it does every last bit of that section, except for the one thing that you concede. Congrats. So you concede. I wasn't defending the overkill, nor was I commenting on it at all. It exists. Point made.
A fast registry is way faster than individual files. Writing to a file vs writing to memory is a huge difference. That's why the registry exists. It puts that entire application into memory. That's faster. It's also easier for a developer to call registry functions than to call file functions. Welcome to the windows API, it has some amazing benefits.
Hang on. I didn't know that OS X can run Perl in an HTML file. But I'm quite confident that Android cannot. I also didn't know that OS X has something equivalent to HTA support, where I can write HTML and JavaScript to write to the registry (prefs), manage files, control peripherals like cameras and printers and scanners and modems, pull live online content as well as local content, and produce a frameless chromeless securityless application with all of the power of a web browser. I didn't know about that. Again, I don't think iOS has that.
You'll find that most business software, written in VB, or HTA, or C++, and packaged with all of the relevant runtimes, works perfectly well still. I'm still doing it, and I'm still working for others doing it. There's XP-mode in vista for that reason. DOS applications still run. You can re-configure IE quite far back, all the way to 6 or even 5 I believe. Reversi from 3.1 still works. Some software has required small changes, but not large ones. And you might take note of a windows tool called "windows compatibility tool" which specifically sandboxes certain environment aspects in order to run older software. Every year someone upgrades from windows 1.0 to the latest windows to show things working. I can still run 16-bit applications, and I think 8-bit witha few work-arounds. Welcome to business-as-usual.
It's not about getting with the times. It's about having spent $100'000 on business automation tools twenty years ago. Business is running fine. Hardware dies. Software doesn't. Why would you want me to spend another $50'000 on something when what I have already works?
So I'll leave you the way I've left others. Put your own $500'000 dollars into your own business, and then decide how long you'd like things that you've built to work.
You'll get the fragmentation whenever very large files and very small files are interchanged and deleted interactively on a near-full disk. It's that simple. There are no decisions for the OS to make when I create a 50MB file on a disk with only 55MB available. It goes into the one big empty block. Tomorrow, when I three blocks each of 50MB, the disk now has three big 50MB blocks open, in three different parts of the disk. When I write a 100MB file, it gets split into two place. There's simply no option about it.
As for better off backing the partition up, reformatting it and restoring, that's just not an option for any always-on workstation. You can't take down the business use for a random hour at a random time. Nor would you want to risk losing everything from a missed keystroke. That's just not the way business works.
Your options are to never come close to filling up your disk, or to never work on files of different sizes.
It's never been about where on the disk is the file. It's about how many times the file is split up. It makes a huge difference -- especially with read caches..
Many link me to those numbers. But they miss 90% of the cradle-to-grave. Think about before and after those measurements are taken. Think about repairing all of those lines after storms and damage.
We're not comparing grid-efficiency to fuel-efficiency. We're comparing grid-efficiency to nothing and fuel-efficiency to nothing. We'll then compare those final numbers.
The nice part about fuel like gasolene, is that the explosive force carries quite well into turning an axel. Most electric motors work through magnets. That's like working through a belt; there's a lot of slippage.
No, liquid fuel doesn't happen for free. Transport requires fuel. But that fuel is only spent while it's being transported. Liquid fuel sits still for reasonable periods of time at virtually 100% efficiency.
Look at electricity. See how business lights remain on at night. It's not for fun. It's not for safety. It's because if all lights turned on or off at the same time, the grid would choke. So in the end, lights stay on way longer than needed. That too is a big huge part of the waste. That's not in these numbers though. These numbers are purely end-to-end along the network. They don't take into account the accessorial needs of the network. Batteries lose charge just sitting still. Batteries lose electricity as they charge.
Liquid fuel can be transferred from tank to trunk to pump to car with effectively zero loss of fuel -- except for the few drops that you spilled onto the ground, and paid for anyway, all of the other transfer-loss simply gets gained again on the next use.
All I'm saying is that you need to look at it cradle-to-grave, end-to-end, start-to-finish. From a point where there is no electricity in existence to the point where your car moves that first micron. If you left your car in the garage overnight, it discharged 1%. There's your first 1%, and you haven't done anything yet. There's a small loss within the electric motor itself. There's a big loss when you charge the battery from the wall. Your wall has the 7% loss from the power plant that you mentioned. That 7% doesn't count the efforts to repair power lines when they break. Does it include charging the battery in the power plant? I doubt it, because most don't have any batteries. But that too will change. It'll need to change in order to support fleets of electric vehicles.
So for the electricity of the future to charge electric cars, we're in and out of batteries probably three times between the solar panel and the axel. That means six transfers. Then you have three transmissions -- to the plant, to the curb, to the garage. Then you have repair on all of those systems. See liquid fuel skips the garage step entirely, and the many curbs are replaced with the fewer pumps. So the number of transmissions drops precipitously.
Oh, I almost forgot. Yes electric heaters are near 100% to convert electricity into heat. But that doesn't mean it gets very hot very fast. Combustion, on the other hand, is the very definition of hot fast.
It isn't a real OS because if you used it in your business five years ago, you couldn't still be using it today. Some of my business software is over twenty years old. So is my business. I don't want to go through the expense of re-writing backoffice administrative software for no reason. It's not profitable to do so.
There's huge value in supporting really old crap. But hey, start your own business today, use OS X, and see where you are in ten years. Then you can decide if it was worth it.
Oh, hey, 15 years ago, I'm with you 100%. But in the last 15 years, between myself and my associate, we've got 1'500 workstations that have never had any registry issues since 1998. And if you read the hive design, it operates like a transactional database.
So if you've been having problems with it recently, say vista or 7, I'd love to hear what caused it -- viruses aside, obviously. I mean, I've lost hard drives, I've corrupted raid controllers, I've crashed a thousand applications, I've had power failures a'plenty. The registry's always been perfect.
majority != all. Much != all. The computer may never be plugged in, and on. You don't want the computer to suddenly be slow and busy when you plug it in. Operating on battery means all features, not some features. That's like saying that when operating on battery, it should drop half the ram, and not access the second disk. That doesn't count. Operating means operating.
ok, I'll quote your whole thing too, it'll save me the hassle of referring to your points with a few nouns.
Defragging a potentially huge disk, in the background, on-the-fly, so the disk never slows down.
Why on earth would it do this while on battery? Can't it wait until the machine is plugged in again?
No, because you may never plug it in, and when you do, you don't suddenly want it to have loads of work to do and slow you down when you want it at its fastest.
File search index, in the background, on-the-fly, so you can search faster. You can turn this off.
Again, why do this by default when on battery?
Again, for the same reason.
Full window dragging, and many other graphics enhancements. You can turn these off.
This will have almost no impact on battery life unless you are spending most of your time dragging around windows for your own amusement.
Hence my words "and many other graphics enhancements". Read more.
Is the printer still there? Let's check again.
Why? If I'm not trying to print anything, who cares if the printer is there.
Because then you'll have no idea why it isn't there. Much easier to know what's wrong when it goes wrong, rather than six days later. If you don't want to know about your printer, unplug it. Or turn this feature off.
Port polling, did you know that a USB port might gett polled 50'000 times per second? You can turn this down. A lot.
Why default to such an aggressive polls/second while on battery?
Welcome to high-speed and responsive. If you want it slower and laggy, you can easily change it.
Scheduled tasks. Oh so many scheduled tasks. You probably have over 1'000 defined.
I certainly didn't schedule over 1000 tasks. Why are there over 1000 tasks scheduled and why are they scheduled to run while on battery?
All of the above things are scheduled. Those things happen on battery power too. Like printing. Battery power doesn't mean you lose features.
Is the internet still connected? Let's check again.
Why? I'll know as soon as a webpage can't load.
Same as with the printer. Knowing that you won't be able to load a webpage is much more useful when you sit down to get some work done. And there are internet-related activities that don't involve a webpage that you requested. Sometimes we have tools and applications and utilities running in the background that depend on the connectivity. If it's gone, that means my scheduled backup that will run overnight won't work. I should fix it now, because I won't be around overnight to see it not working. I also don't check it every time it runs, because it's robust, and can handle a missing connection for one night -- it'll try again a few hours later. But I should know that things are dying all around me before it becomes an issue. Welcome to business.
An actual software Firewall. You can turn it off, or make it much simpler.
If this has any effect on battery life then it is horribly, horribly written.
If there's one feature that can be a little better, but it would consume more power, should it be thrown out? We're talking about security here. Oh yeah, windows also checks to see that your anti-virus exists, and is functioning properly -- with active tests. Should it not check to see that your third-party virus scanner is functioning properly? What would you like to happen if your virus scanner just crashes silently one day? Do you ever check on it?
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NYT readers couldn't care less about actual software advice. They just want their latest tv series fix. Interesting.
Cowards don't get any of my attention. If you want me to read what you've written, put your name to it. You're also a week late dingus. Move on.
I'm not into gardening. I'm handy but I don't really care to improve my house any more. Driving's been a fun thing to do ever since I bought the sportscar and joined the car club. In a typical day of running errands, it's the driving between the errands that's the fun part of my day. It's the commute to and from clients that breaks up the work day.
If I stop driving, what's the fun part of my day? Does the google car come with a google hooker? Because there aren't too many recreational dreams a young man has. Driving's probably in the top three. Maybe the google car comes with unlimited google sandwiches. But even if the hooker serves the sandwiches, how many hours of pleasure can hookers and sandwiches provide in a single day? There's a bottle neck, or two, on my side.
Nice democracy/republic/free country you have there. Since it's your government, and they're working with your tax dollars, you might not want to make things more expensive for them. You might, however, want to cut their budget, and vote them out, and impeech them, and whatever else you do when you both check and balance your government.
sheesh.
Not a computer expert? "The names have been changed to protect the innocent."
Short-hand. Your own short-hand.
Mr. Pink.
John Doe.
But yes, rights seem to be useless.
You're continuing the conversation how many days after it ended? That's late.
And we're not talking about battery life nor about power use. We're talking about battery consumption. Huge difference. Read harder.
More importantly, this isn't your high school essay with detailed points, explanations, and tutorials. I never gave a number of jueles consumed per item.
This is merely a list of things that the O.P. could investigate to find the answers to his query: what's involved in windows managing idle power.
You chose to pingeon-hole one item in a list of abbreviated items. I switched nothing. Devices that support fewer features necessarily have fewer features in use; they are able to cache items across instances. That doesn't scale with more features. You seem to have needed assistance in expanding a small point into a large one. That's ok, I'm here for you. Is there another bullet point with which I can assist?
Available to you. Being used by one other application/user/utility/program currently running. Again, you're not just running one program.
We're not talking about running out of battery. We're talking about using power.
You're late.
It's not about picking the right one. Beta was way better than VHS. Blu-Ray was way better than HD-DVD. Sony lost. Then Sony won. You won't predict it with any degree of precision. Don't try.
You can choose multiple solutions. Odds are that both or many won't all fail at the same time. So you'll better stagger your mistakes.
Or, you can do what I do. I built my own framework. Then it's mine. It's supported by me. It does what my business needs it to do.
Roll your own. It ain't hard.
If you want to own something, don't give it away. Big surprise. Meanwhile, the author proposes one solution, and labels it absurd: carry a usb thumb drive. Never mentions running their own cloud.
Roll you own. It's not difficult.
You're correct in saying that printers are now cheap, in every meaning of the word. But 90% of that cheap is on the physical side, which shouldn't matter for SOHO applications.
I bought an HP LaserJet 100 Color MFP M175nw.
As far as printers go, it's visually attractive. It's got a flatbed and sheet feeder scanner, and while the scans ain't exactly colour accurate, it's certainly great enough for business purposes. The print speed is perfectly fine too. The paper tray is fairly small, but in SOHO I can easily keep a stack nearby. As a physical specimen, I wouldn't trust it in a large office environment -- leaning on it, stealing it, and constantly loading it with paper and toner would make it a hassle. But in my environment, those aren't issues.
In the end, I get what I wanted -- a colour laser printer. It was easily obtained. It was ~$200 with 30% toner. Replacement toney is easily ordered and very inexpensive -- it takes four small toner cartridges that total about $250. It takes about 30 seconds to change each one -- again, fine for SOHO. I print approximately 400 pages per month. The toner lasts me over a year.
I've been using this printer for close to two years now. No complaints.
You're way off-topic. We're not talking about the best way to store applications. We're talking about why the windows way might consume more power.
Women are wicked sexy when they do.
You've listed big businesses where no one would lose their house for the down-time. Businesses with millions of dollars lying around.
Now list small businesses. Like mine. Where if I lose two clients on the same day, I run the risk of losing my house.
...and everyone uses it. I'd love to be the last bald man in the world. A rare breed.
Seriously, what the hell? It's not a disease. It make convertibles more comfortable. It costs a drop of sunscreen or a hat.
I guess some people will cry over anything.
Move to a country not on that list.
"High Choice"
(: I'm not sure that the two were both alive and able to speak at the same time. I'm also not sure that saunas existed during that overlap. I do know that they were not in the same country.
Shall we take it one at a time?
I'm not denying that other systems do camparable things. I'm saying that of all of the other systems, each doesn't do one of the things that windows does, and that's enough to make up for the difference. You've listed OS X. Good for you. Now tell me that Android defrags, file indexes, window drags, and looks for printers. This isn't an exhaustive list. If you'd like me to find one major feature that windows does that OS X doesn't do that may consume power, then pay me to look.
USB polling. Yes I made up 50'000. I didn't look it up like you did. You like hard numbers. Let's take your 8'000 times per second. I like that number. I'm going to take your word that it's the fastest any USB 3.0 port gets polled anywhere in the world. I like hard concepts. So tell me: How many USB ports does your machine have? Mine has 8. So. Here we go. I know how much you like hard math. 8'000Hz per USB port, times 8 USB ports = 64'000Hz. Oh look at that. My totally made up number is completely incorrect. It's actually 64'000 times per second. Neener, neener.
So it does every last bit of that section, except for the one thing that you concede. Congrats. So you concede. I wasn't defending the overkill, nor was I commenting on it at all. It exists. Point made.
A fast registry is way faster than individual files. Writing to a file vs writing to memory is a huge difference. That's why the registry exists. It puts that entire application into memory. That's faster. It's also easier for a developer to call registry functions than to call file functions. Welcome to the windows API, it has some amazing benefits.
Hang on. I didn't know that OS X can run Perl in an HTML file. But I'm quite confident that Android cannot. I also didn't know that OS X has something equivalent to HTA support, where I can write HTML and JavaScript to write to the registry (prefs), manage files, control peripherals like cameras and printers and scanners and modems, pull live online content as well as local content, and produce a frameless chromeless securityless application with all of the power of a web browser. I didn't know about that. Again, I don't think iOS has that.
You'll find that most business software, written in VB, or HTA, or C++, and packaged with all of the relevant runtimes, works perfectly well still. I'm still doing it, and I'm still working for others doing it. There's XP-mode in vista for that reason. DOS applications still run. You can re-configure IE quite far back, all the way to 6 or even 5 I believe. Reversi from 3.1 still works. Some software has required small changes, but not large ones. And you might take note of a windows tool called "windows compatibility tool" which specifically sandboxes certain environment aspects in order to run older software. Every year someone upgrades from windows 1.0 to the latest windows to show things working. I can still run 16-bit applications, and I think 8-bit witha few work-arounds. Welcome to business-as-usual.
It's not about getting with the times. It's about having spent $100'000 on business automation tools twenty years ago. Business is running fine. Hardware dies. Software doesn't. Why would you want me to spend another $50'000 on something when what I have already works?
So I'll leave you the way I've left others. Put your own $500'000 dollars into your own business, and then decide how long you'd like things that you've built to work.
You're 98% incorrect.
You'll get the fragmentation whenever very large files and very small files are interchanged and deleted interactively on a near-full disk. It's that simple. There are no decisions for the OS to make when I create a 50MB file on a disk with only 55MB available. It goes into the one big empty block. Tomorrow, when I three blocks each of 50MB, the disk now has three big 50MB blocks open, in three different parts of the disk. When I write a 100MB file, it gets split into two place. There's simply no option about it.
As for better off backing the partition up, reformatting it and restoring, that's just not an option for any always-on workstation. You can't take down the business use for a random hour at a random time. Nor would you want to risk losing everything from a missed keystroke. That's just not the way business works.
Your options are to never come close to filling up your disk, or to never work on files of different sizes.
It's never been about where on the disk is the file. It's about how many times the file is split up. It makes a huge difference -- especially with read caches..
Many link me to those numbers. But they miss 90% of the cradle-to-grave. Think about before and after those measurements are taken. Think about repairing all of those lines after storms and damage.
We're not comparing grid-efficiency to fuel-efficiency. We're comparing grid-efficiency to nothing and fuel-efficiency to nothing. We'll then compare those final numbers.
The nice part about fuel like gasolene, is that the explosive force carries quite well into turning an axel. Most electric motors work through magnets. That's like working through a belt; there's a lot of slippage.
No, liquid fuel doesn't happen for free. Transport requires fuel. But that fuel is only spent while it's being transported. Liquid fuel sits still for reasonable periods of time at virtually 100% efficiency.
Look at electricity. See how business lights remain on at night. It's not for fun. It's not for safety. It's because if all lights turned on or off at the same time, the grid would choke. So in the end, lights stay on way longer than needed. That too is a big huge part of the waste. That's not in these numbers though. These numbers are purely end-to-end along the network. They don't take into account the accessorial needs of the network. Batteries lose charge just sitting still. Batteries lose electricity as they charge.
Liquid fuel can be transferred from tank to trunk to pump to car with effectively zero loss of fuel -- except for the few drops that you spilled onto the ground, and paid for anyway, all of the other transfer-loss simply gets gained again on the next use.
All I'm saying is that you need to look at it cradle-to-grave, end-to-end, start-to-finish. From a point where there is no electricity in existence to the point where your car moves that first micron. If you left your car in the garage overnight, it discharged 1%. There's your first 1%, and you haven't done anything yet. There's a small loss within the electric motor itself. There's a big loss when you charge the battery from the wall. Your wall has the 7% loss from the power plant that you mentioned. That 7% doesn't count the efforts to repair power lines when they break. Does it include charging the battery in the power plant? I doubt it, because most don't have any batteries. But that too will change. It'll need to change in order to support fleets of electric vehicles.
So for the electricity of the future to charge electric cars, we're in and out of batteries probably three times between the solar panel and the axel. That means six transfers. Then you have three transmissions -- to the plant, to the curb, to the garage. Then you have repair on all of those systems. See liquid fuel skips the garage step entirely, and the many curbs are replaced with the fewer pumps. So the number of transmissions drops precipitously.
Oh, I almost forgot. Yes electric heaters are near 100% to convert electricity into heat. But that doesn't mean it gets very hot very fast. Combustion, on the other hand, is the very definition of hot fast.
It isn't a real OS because if you used it in your business five years ago, you couldn't still be using it today. Some of my business software is over twenty years old. So is my business. I don't want to go through the expense of re-writing backoffice administrative software for no reason. It's not profitable to do so.
There's huge value in supporting really old crap. But hey, start your own business today, use OS X, and see where you are in ten years. Then you can decide if it was worth it.
Oh, hey, 15 years ago, I'm with you 100%. But in the last 15 years, between myself and my associate, we've got 1'500 workstations that have never had any registry issues since 1998. And if you read the hive design, it operates like a transactional database.
So if you've been having problems with it recently, say vista or 7, I'd love to hear what caused it -- viruses aside, obviously. I mean, I've lost hard drives, I've corrupted raid controllers, I've crashed a thousand applications, I've had power failures a'plenty. The registry's always been perfect.
majority != all.
Much != all.
The computer may never be plugged in, and on. You don't want the computer to suddenly be slow and busy when you plug it in. Operating on battery means all features, not some features. That's like saying that when operating on battery, it should drop half the ram, and not access the second disk. That doesn't count. Operating means operating.
ok, I'll quote your whole thing too, it'll save me the hassle of referring to your points with a few nouns.
Defragging a potentially huge disk, in the background, on-the-fly, so the disk never slows down.
Why on earth would it do this while on battery? Can't it wait until the machine is plugged in again?
No, because you may never plug it in, and when you do, you don't suddenly want it to have loads of work to do and slow you down when you want it at its fastest.
File search index, in the background, on-the-fly, so you can search faster. You can turn this off.
Again, why do this by default when on battery?
Again, for the same reason.
Full window dragging, and many other graphics enhancements. You can turn these off.
This will have almost no impact on battery life unless you are spending most of your time dragging around windows for your own amusement.
Hence my words "and many other graphics enhancements". Read more.
Is the printer still there? Let's check again.
Why? If I'm not trying to print anything, who cares if the printer is there.
Because then you'll have no idea why it isn't there. Much easier to know what's wrong when it goes wrong, rather than six days later. If you don't want to know about your printer, unplug it. Or turn this feature off.
Port polling, did you know that a USB port might gett polled 50'000 times per second? You can turn this down. A lot.
Why default to such an aggressive polls/second while on battery?
Welcome to high-speed and responsive. If you want it slower and laggy, you can easily change it.
Scheduled tasks. Oh so many scheduled tasks. You probably have over 1'000 defined.
I certainly didn't schedule over 1000 tasks. Why are there over 1000 tasks scheduled and why are they scheduled to run while on battery?
All of the above things are scheduled. Those things happen on battery power too. Like printing. Battery power doesn't mean you lose features.
Is the internet still connected? Let's check again.
Why? I'll know as soon as a webpage can't load.
Same as with the printer. Knowing that you won't be able to load a webpage is much more useful when you sit down to get some work done. And there are internet-related activities that don't involve a webpage that you requested. Sometimes we have tools and applications and utilities running in the background that depend on the connectivity. If it's gone, that means my scheduled backup that will run overnight won't work. I should fix it now, because I won't be around overnight to see it not working. I also don't check it every time it runs, because it's robust, and can handle a missing connection for one night -- it'll try again a few hours later. But I should know that things are dying all around me before it becomes an issue. Welcome to business.
An actual software Firewall. You can turn it off, or make it much simpler.
If this has any effect on battery life then it is horribly, horribly written.
If there's one feature that can be a little better, but it would consume more power, should it be thrown out? We're talking about security here. Oh yeah, windows also checks to see that your anti-virus exists, and is functioning properly -- with active tests. Should it not check to see that your third-party virus scanner is functioning properly? What would you like to happen if your virus scanner just crashes silently one day? Do you ever check on it?
Multi-user, multi-profile. Everything gets doubled.
You have multiple users logged into your laptop while on battery? Sure, it's possible but, I find it highly unlikely that most people do.
Actually, since most of the above features run as a sys