Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Original title: Battery meter in XP doesn't work. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 0. If you rely on your laptop--and its batteries--it's worth taking a look at battery monitors, such as Battery Meter 1.
It's a free tool that estimates how long you can run your PC on its remaining battery power as well as how long your batteries will take to recharge. We all enjoy surprises, but not when it comes to computers, so we selected the installer's option to run Battery Meter at start-up so we wouldn't forget to open it. Most of the time, Battery Meter resembles nearly every other laptop battery display, with an icon shaped like an actual battery with a color-coded graphical display of remaining charge; Battery Meter showed ours in blue for a full charge and even said "full" for good measure.
We opened Battery Meter's interface, a colorful green-on-black dialog with time counters for estimated total battery time and time from current state for both charging and discharging our batteries as well as total charge and accuracy in percentages. At the bottom is an interesting map displaying charge and discharge times graphically at a glance. Clicking a button labeled More opened the program's Web site, but we could find nothing else in the way of settings or properties; we also looked for evidence of an alarm or other audible indicator of low battery power, but there didn't seem to be any, and running our laptop's batteries down to critical level to see if there might be some sort of alarm wasn't on the agenda.
There also seems to be no way to keep the expanded main view open; it closes as soon as you click your mouse on the desktop or another window. Double-clicking the program merely closed it.
We did try Battery Meter on a desktop, too; it worked, showing a full charge on AC power, but didn't display estimated times. Battery Meter seems to do a good job estimating battery duration and charge time, which is the most important thing.
But its eye-catching interface needs some operational improvements, and a few configurable settings and other common options would help, too. Free YouTube Downloader. IObit Uninstaller. Internet Download Manager. Advanced SystemCare Free. VLC Media Player. The laptop offers the dell battery meter option where I can disable battery charging. If I go to windows 10, either through an upgrade or clean install, will I lose this functionality?
Thanks in advance. Why do you want to Disable battery charging? The laptop will NOT overcharge the battery; the battery stops the charging when it is fully charged.
I had always thought I needed to disable charging manually to not damage the battery life. There are a lot of "experts" out there that keep recommending the battery should be removed after charging or the power charger removed, They are WRONG.
Is this a Dell battery or a third party replacement? To check yours, install the free BattStat utility. You can follow the charging on a graph which shows the charging current. This can take an additional hour. I had an aftermarket battery that continued to charge intermittently when fully charged. It may well be a hardware fault of sorts motherboard? Speak to Dell Support if you can. Thanks guys, I have arrived at the same conclusion. Dell support call will be fun.
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Jayson Aug 19, at UTC. Do you have more than one of the same model laptop? Is the other laptop working fine? Ian Aug 19, at UTC. Ian Aug 20, at UTC. This topic has been locked by an administrator and is no longer open for commenting.
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