Administrators Leon Posted June 30, 2013 Administrators Share Posted June 30, 2013 I bought my Samsung laptop well over a year ago, and it came running Windows 7 - while i do for the most of the time run OSX on it - its nice to be able to dual boot.. eg. to Winows 8 One of the interesting features that Samsung included was a piece of software called ‘Easy Settings’ which allowed me to configure the battery to never charge above 80%, supposedly lengthening the life of the battery. I turned this on (since my laptop is plugged in 99% of the time) and forgot all about it. A few months later I installed Windows 8 and found that Easy Settings no longer worked. When I tried to install it I got this message: Loosing 20% of your battery capacity might be fine around the house, but sometimes I do like to take my laptop out and so I really wanted to be able to configure this. Even forcing Windows to install meant the app would run but wouldn’t display correctly function at all, I guess Microsoft blocked it for a reason. Install Version 2.1 It turns out Samsung do offer a version of this tool for Windows 8, they just don’t make it easy to find. Version 2.1 works perfectly fine on NP300E5A model. Before I could change any power management settings, I had to update my laptop’s firmware however. The link to the download was hidden away on this Windows 8 update page, so check your model is listed before performing any firmware updates! One nice addition is the ability to turn your laptop into a wireless Access Point (yes, Macs have had this feature for years I know, and it’s very useful).SWUpdate_2.1.15.1.ZIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gyro Posted October 6, 2013 Share Posted October 6, 2013 how can i get back my easy settings,i have a samsung laptop,it used to be win7 i changed it to win8,now my easy settings are gone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted October 7, 2013 Administrators Share Posted October 7, 2013 read and install the post above yours? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x7moodx Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 Hi I've got series 5 laptop and used to work just fine and suddenly it is not showing up the access point option but the rest are just fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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