butchie
join:2000-12-29
Palm Beach Gardens, FL |  [Need Info] battery meter???????????
Any suggestion for a simple, low resource, battery meter to sit in the taskbar for a laptop. My battery icon won,t stay in the taskbar. Somedays yes, somedays no. Thanks......... |
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lilhurricane
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join:2003-01-11
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clubs:  | What make & model...operating system? |
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butchie
join:2000-12-29
Palm Beach Gardens, FL | reply to butchie
Acer Aspire One AOD250-1116 Netbook - Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz, 2GB DDR2, 160GB HDD, 10.1" WSVGA, Windows XP Home, 6-Cell,
thanks............... |
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lilhurricane
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| ..maybe one of these might work?
»www.batterymon.com/ / »www.passmark.com/products/batmon.htm
»www.codeplex.com/BatteryAlarm
(Not free) »www.exs-studios.com/page_laptopb···tor.html |
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butchie
join:2000-12-29
Palm Beach Gardens, FL | Thanks..i,ll give it a try........Butchie |
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lilhurricane
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clubs: | If you find something good..that you like, come back & tell us, Butchie  |
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butchie
join:2000-12-29
Palm Beach Gardens, FL | reply to butchie
I,m going to try Battery Bar. Found it from a post back on 07/27/09. You noted it at the time so i,ll try it. Let you know.............Butchie |
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LeeBee
It's Dark Out There
join:2003-06-18
Swissieland | BatteryBar free is excellent. Recommended. |
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butchie
join:2000-12-29
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
 ·AT&T Southeast
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I was just going to install battery bar,when i turned on my netbook and what do you know, the battery meter icon has returned. I guess my computer sensed what i was about to do. WHAT,S THE STORY WITH THIS BATTERY ICON BUSINESS? Does anyone know what the story is with this ANNOYING problem? |
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lilhurricane
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| It knew you were looking for it  
Actually, reported here before: »Re: Why the price difference - 2 laptops
Although my Acer Aspire has never had that issue |
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Sith HMP
I Did What?
Premium
join:2004-04-25
Bloomington, IL
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Are you running XP or Vista. I had this problem on my Dell laptop and fixed it. The solution is OS specific though. If I remember correctly it's just a matter of starting and stopping some services. There is also a registry adjustment that worked too.
It is not a temporary fix. After doing so the problem has not returned. I believe I had the problem about 6 months ago.
I am at work right now and have the solution website saved on my laptop at home. Let me know if you are interested and I will post the link today when I get home from work in about 7 hours.
OT: The thought of 7 more hours at work is killing me right now. |
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butchie
join:2000-12-29
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
·AT&T Southeast
| Acer Aspire One AOD250-1116 Netbook - Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz, 2GB DDR2, 160GB HDD, 10.1" WSVGA, Windows XP Home
I'm still having this problem, it just comes and goes. It,s really making me nuts. I,ll let you know if your solutions do the trick. Thanks in advance...Butchie |
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butchie
join:2000-12-29
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
·AT&T Southeast
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Acer Aspire One AOD250-1116 Netbook - Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz, 2GB DDR2, 160GB HDD, 10.1" WSVGA, Windows XP Home
Sith HMP, I'm still having this problem, it just comes and goes. It,s really making me nuts. I,ll let you know if your solutions do the trick. Thanks in advance...Butchie |
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Sith HMP
I Did What?
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join:2004-04-25
Bloomington, IL
| »www.mydigitallife.info/2006/01/0···dows-xp/
I tried to find the exact page I used before but I must have deleted it from my favorites. The information described in this page is pretty similar to what I did. Instead of "disabling" the services I simply changed them to "manual". I actually use them so it was a better solution in my case. If your laptop isn't included in a network situation then you could probably disable them. others here would be able to better describe the implications of doing so.
I will try to find the page with the registry changes too. Sorry it took so long to reply. I had some IRL issues I had to get taken care of. Let me know if this helps. If not I will keep looking. Like I said, the information I found before definitely fixed my issue. |
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butchie
join:2000-12-29
Palm Beach Gardens, FL | thanks for the help, but still no luck.............Just annoying as hell............. |
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