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    Lenovo Power Manager Alternative gauge

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by cloud_nine, Jul 20, 2011.

  1. cloud_nine

    cloud_nine Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi Everyone, I remember there was a thread somewhere where someone modified the skin of the battery gauge in the Lenovo Power Manager. I searched and searched and can't seem to find it :\

    Any clues or leads?
     
    cloud_nine, Jul 20, 2011
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  2. LevSer

    LevSer Notebook Guru

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    I appreciate the interest but I don't think this is the right way to go about finding it :p

    -For future searches try the thread sticky'd in this section (Lenovo/IBM).
    -For the gauge click the link in my signature below
     
    LevSer, Jul 20, 2011
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  3. BrendaEM

    BrendaEM Notebook Consultant

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    Lenovo ruined their once good power manager.

    On Windows 7, it takes seconds to change power levels, whereas on XP, it was a right-click.

    On Windows 7, the notification area is too large to be compatible with the "classic" theme, which is the only one that makes sense if you need not to ruin your color perception. Also, "Classic" allows more screen real estate, by a few pixels than any of the Aero themes.
     
    BrendaEM, Jul 20, 2011
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  4. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    Did you try Fn+F3?

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Jul 21, 2011
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  5. BrendaEM

    BrendaEM Notebook Consultant

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    Interesting suggestion, but if you need to do that to open it, it's broken. The new battery manager is a disimprovement and downgrade that should have never made it out of beta.

    With that stated, Windows 7's own battery manager is broken even more, allowing only 2 battery states to be used at a time. What were they thinking, and how could they be so stupid that they think that's acceptable? MS, keep making the cool-aid, and everyone will drink it because no one complains.
     
    BrendaEM, Jul 21, 2011
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  6. vinuneuro

    vinuneuro Notebook Virtuoso

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    Agree on all counts including Classic theme. I've tried my best to like the Aero themes but they just give up too much space and are far too cluttered. Thankfully, BatteryBar for $10 solves both problems. Allows you to get rid of the Power Manager toolbar to make the taskbar narrower, and right-clicking the batterybar toolbar lets you switch profiles.
     
    vinuneuro, Jul 21, 2011
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