The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Battery life & Time remaining meter

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by stevemachine, Jun 5, 2007.

  1. stevemachine

    stevemachine Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    1
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Hi, I just got a dell e1505 and after playing with vista for a few weeks, I decided to go back to Windows XP Pro. There was one aspect I do miss from before though... I'm not sure if it was Dell software or part of Vista Home Prem., but in the bottom right taskbar, it would show a tiny battery image, and the remaining % of battery life AND approximately my remaining usage time. On XP, I have found in the power management, it tells me how much % life remaining, but not the time left. I also have Dell Quickset, but that is pretty much the same as power management in the control panel.

    So basically, is the application which displays battery time remaining available for Windows XP, or is that a feature in Vista only? Or, is it software from Dell which i forgot to download?
     
    stevemachine, Jun 5, 2007
    #1
  2. iOsiris

    iOsiris Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    40
    Messages:
    447
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    iOsiris, Jun 5, 2007
    #2