PowerProfiler(TM) for Windows(r) NT(TM)4.0
Release 2.20.05
January 28, 1998
Copyright(c) 1997-1998 SystemSoft Corporation, All Rights Reserved
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Section Contents:
1. General Description and Installation
2. Major Release Components
3. Enhancements and New Functionality
4. Known limitations
5. Problems Addressed in this Release
6. Documentation and Collateral
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1. General Description and Installation
PowerProfiler for Windows NT provides a complete power management
solution for portable platforms running Microsoft's Windows NT
4.0 environment. PowerProfiler provides suspend/resume control,
active battery status and metering, and a wide variety of user
selectable parameters and alarms all within an easy to use Windows
application. It includes an APM 1.2 kernel driver that interfaces
with an APM BIOS. PowerProfiler for Windows NT is a generic product,
and is platform independent.
PowerProfiler resides on two diskettes. To install, run Setup.exe on Disk 1.
If you have the single file pp220gne.exe, this is a self extracting
zip file. Copy to a directory, double click to unzip, and run Setup.exe.
To create diskette images, from the DOS prompt run 'pp200gne -d [<path>]'
PowerProfiler for Windows NT has been designed and tested on a number
of different platforms with many different BIOS's. Although qualification
across these varied platforms has been successful, we recommend testing
by SystemSoft's Quality Assurance Department on specific platforms prior
to them shipping with PowerProfiler.
2. Major Release Components
Component Description
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PowerProfiler.exe User interface application
pplang.dll Lanaguage resource file for powerprofiler.exe
ppntapm.sys APM 1.2 Kernel Driver (Also supports APM 1.1 BIOS)
pwrpront.dll PowerProfiler DLL
apmsrv.exe PowerProfiler service application
batmeter.exe Battery Meter Faceless Application
sspwrpro.scr Low power screen saver (for display timer)
setup.pkg Installation utility components
mhgage32.ocx Battery gauge control (from Microsoft)
msacal70.ocx calendar control (from Microsoft)
Internal version numbers
apmsrv.exe 1.00.15 11/07/97
pwrpront.dll 1.00.11 11/07/97
sspwrpro.scr 1.00.05 01/07/97
ppntapm.sys 1.00.14 01/28/98
batmeter.exe 1.00.08 10/30/97
powerprofiler.exe 2.20.05 01/28/98
pplang.dll NO VCB
ppindll.dll 1.00.00 11/11/96
ppuninst.dll 1.00.00 5/22/97
3. Enhancements and New Functionality since 2.20.04 release
"Silent" install is now supported. Use "setup -s" to install
in silent mode. Silent install does not require the user to
answer any questions, defaults are used instead.
4. Known Limitations
Occasionally, an error message may appear upon resume:
"System Process - Lost Delayed - Write Data. The system was
attempting to transfer file data from buffers to
\Device\Hardisk0\Partition1\$Mft. The write operation failed,
and some of the data may have been written to the file."
PowerProfiler forces a flush of all disk buffers prior to
suspend. No evidence of any lost data has been found. This problem
has only been observed on some platforms - most do not exhibit the
problem. It has been reported that on at least one platform that has
this problem, the atapi.sys driver can be changed to the original NT 4.0
version (rather than the service pack version) and the problem goes away.
On rare occasions we have observed following a Resume
operation that no applications can be launched, though the mouse
can be moved and the system does not appear to be hung.
This problem has only been observed on some platforms - most
do not exhibit the problem. It is recommended that prior to suspending
the user should save data. This appears to be related to the above
problem since it also only occurs on the same systems that exhibit
the previous problem.
Problems occur if PowerProfiler is installed by Administrator and
uninstalled by a user. Uninstall appears to complete with no problems,
but on reboot error messages may appear, and some PowerProfiler components
are not removed. It is recommended that only the administrator
installs/uninstalls PowerProfiler to avoid any problems.
5. Problems Addressed in this Release
The following bugs reported against the 2.20.04 release have been fixed.
The hard drive standby timeout may not get set with some hard
drives (IBM hard drives in this case) so the drive would never
"spin down" on platforms that use these drives. This has been fixed.
6. Documentation and Collateral
Document Description Avail Format
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User's Guide Installation and Now Hardcopy and
Usage '.doc' (Microsoft
Word)
Product Brief Features and Now Hardcopy and
Benefits '.doc'
(Microsoft
Word)
Download Driver Pack
After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
For more help, visit our Driver Support section for step-by-step videos on how to install drivers for every file type.