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    Dell battery extender

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by phongoli0, Jul 4, 2009.

  1. phongoli0

    phongoli0 Notebook Guru

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    i did a factory restore recently on my studio xps 16 and i dont have the battery meter/extender program. can someone tell me how to get it back or send it to me. it would be much appricative. also is there a way that i can adjust the brightness depending on if im plugged in or not?
    64 bit if it matters or not
     
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    Relativity17 Notebook Evangelist

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    Are you using Vista? If so, look down at the bottom right in your taskbar. There should be a little battery-like icon there. It allows you to access power plans, which are the built-in power management modes of Vista. You can click on that icon and select a power plan, or click More power options and customize the existing plans and create new plans as you wish.

    You can specify a default brightness for AC/battery modes there.
     

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    never mind i found the update on the dell web page
     
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