Laptop battery monitoring for vista and xp
Lot’s of people always complain when their laptop battery goes down when they are in the middle of something very important, this happens as they either ignore the low battery popup or may be does not see it appearing.
Today, we have come up with free utility called Battery Monitoring – For Laptop which will alert you with a loud notification sound when your laptop reaches a critical low level.
Let’s see how use Battery Monitoring – For Laptop to get a loud alarm before your battery dies.
You just need to download the BatteryMonitoring.zip file and extract it anywhere on your hard disk. This small program does not need any installation, so extract the contents of the zip file, double click BatteryMonitoring.exe to run it.
It will load into your system tray and start functioning, we would recommend to place this Battery Monitoring executable in your windows startup so that it automatically starts running when you start your laptop.
It has two types of audible warning sounds one for low battery notification and another one for critical battery level notification, you will find both the wav files in the extracted folder, if you want to customize or change the sounds replace these files with some another wav files with the same name.
Battery Monitoring – For Laptop not only alerts if battery is low, also shows the battery status of remaining power of battery.
Download Battery Monitoring For Laptop
Tags: Battery, battery monitoring, battery status, BatteryMonitoring, download, laptop, laptop battery, low battery, monitoring, program, utility, windows vista
Loading ...
sodala on 23 Sep 2008 at 11:50 pm #
Yeah, very nice and small program – too bad it doesn’t work with my Fujitu-Siemens Amilo Si1520.
1. I can’t specify the critical or low battery level
2. there is no sound even if the battery is at 5 percent
I thought that after years of searching I have found a tool that is able to alert me of my dying battery – but I have to search on.
If ANYONE on this planet knows a working battery meter for Vista – mail me and you’ll get the Nobel Price in the category “Fraking Annoying Problems” from me.
-sodala
jack on 28 Nov 2008 at 5:32 pm #
At last a low battery sound, but the level seems to
be fixed ~ 33% – can’t remember exact, and I would
prefer to be able to move it down to say 20%.
David Deley on 30 Dec 2008 at 7:31 pm #
Found this little free battery monitor app that may be useful as a starting point.
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/index.html#BatteryRun
It’s an AutoHotKey script. AutoHotKey is free (www.autohotkey.com) Or you can use the compiled .exe file. If you know a little programming you can modify it to do what you want. (I’m going to see what I can do with it.) Or, I think there’s a place at the website above where you can request someone to modify the program to do what you want.
Currently it works by checking the battery status every second. I think that’s a bit much, I’d change it to check less often. Earlier I was trying to make a program that would catch the system battery event messages, rather than polling every now and then. Should be more efficient, but too complex for me.
The percentage of battery life left is the byte BatteryLifePercent of the SYSTEM_POWER_STATUS structure. A value between 0 – 100, or 255 meaning status unknown.
Other related links:
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic7633.html
(The AutoHotKey forum may be another place to ask.)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa373232.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372693(VS.85).aspx