Vista - How to turn off Speedstep?

Is there any way in Vista (32 bit) to turn off Intel’s Speedstep throttling?

Having spend a couple of hours going through Vista’s various and numerous
options (power options and so on) as well as spending some time researching
this on the net, I simply cannot find a way to turn speedstep off via the GUI.

My BIOS gives me two options: “Off� which sure enough turns speedstep off,
but sets the processors to run at minimum speed (1GHz), or “Enabled� which,
well, enables speedstep.

This used to be so easy in XP to turn off that I wonder why in Billy The
Gates’ name it seems an impossibility under Vista. The mind boggles … or am I
missing something here?

All advice & help would be much appreciated.

Relevant system info: Dell Precision M90, latest BIOS & drivers, Core2Duo
T7400

"akita" <akita@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Is there any way in Vista (32 bit) to turn off Intel’s Speedstep
> throttling?
>
> Having spend a couple of hours going through Vista’s various and numerous
> options (power options and so on) as well as spending some time
> researching
> this on the net, I simply cannot find a way to turn speedstep off via the
> GUI.
>
> My BIOS gives me two options: “Off� which sure enough turns speedstep off,
> but sets the processors to run at minimum speed (1GHz), or “Enabled�
> which,
> well, enables speedstep.
>
> This used to be so easy in XP to turn off that I wonder why in Billy The
> Gates’ name it seems an impossibility under Vista. The mind boggles … or
> am I
> missing something here?
>
> All advice & help would be much appreciated.
>
> Relevant system info: Dell Precision M90, latest BIOS & drivers, Core2Duo
> T7400
>



Type 'Power Options' in the Start Menu search thing at the bottom and select
it.

Either choose High Performance, or adjust the one you are already using by
doing this:

Click 'Change Plan Settings'

Click 'Change Advanced Power Settings'

Under 'Processor power management', make sure Min and Max values are at 100%

ss.