Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware
Power Meter Plus provides constant laptop battery updates
by Brad Linder Dec 29th 2008 at 4:00PM
If you use a Windows laptop, you're probably familiar with the battery icon that hangs out in the system tray. It provides a bit of information about your battery status at a glance. But just a bit. It typically shows you if the battery is full, around half empty, or mostly empty. You have to scroll your mouse over the icon to get a more accurate reading.Or you can install Power Meter Plus. This free utility for Windows XP and earlier releases provides a detailed battery meter which is always present on your desktop. The meter is partially transparent, so you can see through it. And it lives on the right or left side of the screen. If you need to access something hiding under the power meter, just move your mouse over it and the meter will jump to the other side of the screen.
As your battery power drains, the meter will get brighter. And you can configure Power Meter Plus to show notifications when the battery reaches critical levels.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
WTFisCommonSense said 5:10PM on 12-29-2008
Neat utility.. horrid interface.
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conor said 5:42PM on 12-29-2008
No Vista?
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Ronald Harris said 6:09PM on 12-29-2008
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Bioretention said 6:24PM on 12-29-2008
Well, nice, but if you have a Mac laptop, there's a simple percentage up in the right hand corner of the screen:
http://www.bioretention-solutions.com
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Bufsabre said 7:10PM on 12-29-2008
cause doing a scroll over is too hard and justifies installing bloatware
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Moses Arthesi said 9:16PM on 12-29-2008
I like BattStat to display my laptop battery status. has been using Battery Status Monitor from IBM in my T41 laptop, but when its fail to load when not using Explorer as a shell, i found BattStat as a nice replacement. No problem with Emerge Desktop that i use now.
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Moses Arthesi said 9:24PM on 12-29-2008
Oops, forgot to put link to BattStat: http://users.rcn.com/tmtalpey/BattStat/
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