The Boot Camp's native keyboard backlight management has severe issues on all pre-2010 Macbooks. This becomes especially clear in comparison with Mac® OS X
implementation: not only it's impossible (!) to disable keyboard backlight completely in Windows®, the worstest 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 keyboard backlight management to a new level on all pre-2010 Macbooks: it allows a 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. It's a tool worth installing - one can only
imagine how annoying it is to be writing novels or playing about at http://www.casino.com/ only to have your machine go kaput because it's using pointless amounts of
power to backlight your keyboard at four in the afternoon. So, Power Plan Assistant brings these keyboard backlight management features to both the 32-bit and 64-bit
Windows® 7, at the same time preserving all of Boot Camp's 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.
4. The Macbooks, unlike any other laptops available on the market, do not have a hardware Wi-Fi / Bluetooth button (a toggle). Power Plan Assistant offers you to turn
on / off the wireless adapters quickly and easily, directly from the 'left-click' actions menu. Since Windows® 7 (unlike Mac® OS X) always keeps the wireless devices
on (no true power off even if the device is not working / is not connected to network), this feature becomes real Boot Camp power saver. Now you can keep wireless
adapters on only when you actually need the Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connectivity. For those who do not care about the extra power saving, this feature (just like the rest of
the Power Plan Assistant’s features) can be adjusted through the 'right-click' settings menu.
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 (Mid-2010 Macbook Pro allows a user to disable keyboard backlight without
Power Plan Assistant, but automatic adjustment of the keyboard backlight intensity is still the subject of major interest - no other software is capable of switching the
backlight control to manual mode, and the Boot Camp's native automatic adjustment has not been fixed by Apple, even for the Mid-2010 Macbook Pro update).
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