Comments on: Laptop battery monitoring for vista and xp http://www.pctipsbox.com/laptop-battery-monitoring-for-vista-and-xp/ Tips Tricks Central Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:37:32 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: David Deley http://www.pctipsbox.com/laptop-battery-monitoring-for-vista-and-xp/comment-page-1/#comment-11921 David Deley Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:31:09 +0000 http://www.pctipsbox.com/?p=2061#comment-11921 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 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

]]> By: jack http://www.pctipsbox.com/laptop-battery-monitoring-for-vista-and-xp/comment-page-1/#comment-11423 jack Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:32:04 +0000 http://www.pctipsbox.com/?p=2061#comment-11423 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%. 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%.

]]> By: sodala http://www.pctipsbox.com/laptop-battery-monitoring-for-vista-and-xp/comment-page-1/#comment-10796 sodala Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:50:36 +0000 http://www.pctipsbox.com/?p=2061#comment-10796 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 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

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