Windows XP: Understanding Hardware Profiles (Part 1)
Leave a commentLearn how to create and configure hardware Laptop Battery profiles for your Windows XP PC. Very simply put, a hardware profile is a set of instructions that tells Windows which hardware to start automatically when you start your PC. A hardware profile also tells Windows which settings to use for each hardware device. Windows XP uses the profile to decide what drivers and services to load on boot up too, among other things.
About Hardware Profiles
Wouldn’t it be great if you could walk into your house, and say “Hello, house, it’s me, <insert your name here>,” and all of the home’s hardware settings, such as the temperature of the dell laptop battery heat and air, the dimness or brightness of the lights, and the slant of the window shades would position themselves automatically to your set preferences? What if you could also tell your home to turn on the TV and put it on a specific channel? Well, that day is almost here for our homes, but it’s already here for our Windows XP PCs. It’s easy to configure too, you just need to create a hardware profile.
Tip: You can have multiple hardware profiles.
Default Hardware Profiles
When you installed 1691P battery or purchased your PC, it came with one profile, named creatively enough, Profile 1. This profile tells Windows XP to start all of your installed devices and their drivers when the PC boots. This includes printers, scanners, Web cams, microphones, monitors, external drives, external DVD or CD players, keyboards and mice, and anything else that you’ve physically connected.
You can easily create a hardware profile so that when you boot it up, Windows automatically uses what you’ve configured as personal hardware settings, and enables or disables the hardware you do and don’t want to use. While creating these profiles makes the configuration of the PC as perfect as possible for your needs, it also allows the PC to perform better. Remember, the PC only needs to do what you 75UYF battery need it to do; if it does more than necessary, you’re losing performance you could otherwise have.
Note: A laptop comes with two hardware profiles: Docked and Undocked. The default settings for these will depend on the hardware you configure for both states. There’ll be a section on laptops later.
Creating different hardware configurations can be quite useful too. You can have different hardware profiles for each user who accesses the PC, or, for different jobs performed by a single person at the PC. For instance, a teenager could create a gaming profile, while you could 5081P battery create a working one. The gaming profile could have advanced hardware devices configured such as handheld gaming hardware, while the working profile could have these disabled. The gaming profile could also have RAM configured differently than the working profile, and you could disable printers, scanners, and other unnecessary hardware. Remember, the more resources your PC has available, the better it will perform, and this is especially true for gamers.
Tip: Of course, you’ll set your preferred screen resolution, hardware settings, mouse and keyboard settings, and other preferences too, all of which will either be part of the hardware profile or your user account preferences. Whatever the case, they’ll be available (or not available) at boot Inspiron 700m battery up.