Not a secret, Boot Camp's native Macbook Pro / Air keyboard backlight management has several issues. This becomes especially clear in comparison with Mac® OS X
implementation: not only it's impossible (!) to disable keyboard backlight completely in Windows®, even worther thing is that Boot Camp's native automatic adjustment
mechanism is not properly coded. It's, as a minimum, too sensitive, thus keyboard backlight tends to fluctuate even at a nearly constant level of ambient light.
Being extremely bright, especially on the latest 'unibody' Macbooks, it doesn't only irritate user, but definitely is an extra energy consumer.
Power Plan Assistant brings the keyboard backlight management to a new level on Macbook Pro / Air, allowing the user to disable keyboard backlight completely or just
disable / enable automatic keyboard backlight level adjustment. These features were previously available on Mac® OS X only. Power Plan Assistant brings them to both
the 32-bit and 64-bit Windows®, at the same time preserving all of Boot Camp native hardware controls (no need to unload the 'Bootcamp.exe' process!)
Note: all the 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows® 7 are fully supported (on 64-bit operating system, the 100% native, 64-bit binaries will be installed automatically).
With Power Plan Assistant you can:
1. Use all the convenient power management features of Power Plan Assistant (features brought by Power Plan Assistant to any Windows® 7 powered notebook).
2. Temporary disable keyboard backlight (to re-enable, you can simply change its level using the hardware keys: current backlight level is remembered on disabling and
restored on manual adjustment). Note: all of Boot Camp's features and hardware controls are still available when Power Plan Assistant is running!
3. Enable / disable Boot Camp's automatic adjustment of keyboard backlight intensity. You can check / uncheck the 'Disable automatic adjustment of keyboard backlight
intensity' item in the 'right-click' settings menu to disable or enable it, correspondingly. Note: Power Plan Assistant co-exists with Boot Camp (i.e. with 'Bootcamp.exe' /
'KbdMgr.exe' process), thus all the native Boot Camp's features are still available when Power Plan Assistant is running.
Power Plan Assistant for Windows® 7 is 100% compatible with Boot Camp 2.2, 3.0, 3.1, but may not work with older Boot Camp versions. All existing generations of
Boot Camp-enabled Apple® Macbook Pro and Macbook Air notebooks are supported. Please note: satisfying the growing users' demands, the backward compatibility
with Windows® Vista was introduced in the current major release of Power Plan Assistant. That means, all the features of Power Plan Assistant 2.0, including the
exclusive keyboard backlight management features for Boot Camp-enabled Apple® Macbook Pro / Air, are now available to Windows® Vista users!
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