Help wanted with my sony vaio vgn-sr39vn

I just bought a sony vaio vgn-sr39vn this week so am trying to set it up myself!! I had it downgraded to XP as that is more familiar to me.
1..I would like to know where I can check the level of the battery as it is charging.
2..Wifi is set up and working well & recognising all the connections in the road incl. mine but I know it is a big drain on the battery. As I have a fast cable (Virgin Broadband) I don't really need to use the wifi in the house so I assume I just turn it off. Correct?
3....How do I set up Outlook Express to work for both...my broadband AND when using wifi? My normal email address?
4...ALSO....I just bought a dLan 200 AVeasy Starter Kit after hearing it is brilliant at boosing internet speeds etc. When I installed it I found another network became installed which is maybe how it works BUT when I tried to send an email from my laptop, I got the message 'This machine has more than one Ethernet or more than one wireless adaptor' so I couldn't send the email PLUS I could no longer get connected to my own wifi connection!!!
Please advise. I would be so grateful as I'm doing pretty well apart from getting this are right!!

 

Check out the manual and other pertinent info. You should see a wifi symbol in the system tray turn it off there or hit start/connect to/show all connections and then disable the wifi there. I prefer one of these methods instead of turning off the wireless switch because I use the bluetooth on several items such as phone, palm and mouse. There should be a power settings icon in control panal. I use the free version of BatteryBar It puts info in the system tray.


http://support.vaio.sony.eu/computing/vaio/downloads/updates/index.aspx?l=en_GB&m=VGN-SR39VN_S

 

hope this help