BatteryCare - Detailed Information about your Battery
BatteryCare is a great program that allows you to monitor the state and health of your battery in detail.
You can get it at: http://batterycare.bkspot.com/en/index.html
If you laptop is like my machine, and it does not give Windows a means of estimating how much time your laptop has left until your battery is drained of power, then BatteryCare is just for you. It also has many other great features. You can get detailed information about your laptop’s battery health.
It tells you how many discharge cycles your battery has until you have to replace it and how many discharge cycles in total your battery has. It also tells you the current total capacity of the battery, designed total capacity, the percentage of wear your battery has experienced, tension voltage, charge/discharge rate and a few other goodies.
As an added bonus, it will even tell you your CPU temperature. It also has power management features. For example, you can disable certain Windows services such as Aero, SuperFetch, etc to save battery power. It can also switch between power plans automatically when you go from AC power to battery power. Finally, it can notify you when it recommends a full discharge be done to your battery. That way, you can ensure that you always keep it healthy.
Try it out, it is a very small download and also a small memory footprint.
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