BatteryBar: Improve Windows 7 Battery Management

Although there is some disagreement over whether laptop battery life has got better or worse in Windows 7 (on my laptops it has), the battery  information that Windows 7 provides is limited so it can be hard to ascertain how well your battery is performing.  A great application to install to give more Windows 7 battery information is BatteryBar, which comes in both a free and Pro version.

BatteryBar is a simple, straight-forward, battery meter that monitors the status of your battery and displays your battery’s status in the taskbar.  All data is captured so that historical performance data on your battery can be accessed so that a more accurate battery life remaining estimate can be produced – hopefully your laptop will no longer die when it’s claiming it has 1o mins of power left..

The free version of BatteryBar provides the following features:

• Statistical Time Prediction
• Always-on battery icon showing current battery status
• Create a discharge/recharge profile of your battery
• Determine “time remaining” based on historical usage profile of your battery
• Display popup window with detailed battery information
• Automatic upgrade notification popup for the latest stable release

Which is good enough for most users, although BatteryBar pro adds the following features:

• Automatic upgrade notification popup for the latest beta release
• Show low and critical battery notification warnings
• Change the current Windows power scheme
• Customize the look of BatteryBar with custom themes
• Customize when the battery is reported as at low or critical level
• Show low and critical battery warnings based on time remaining or percent remaining

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