BatteryBar the Battery Meter for Windows
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BatteryBar is a freeware Windows utility that places a good looking battery meter to your Windows task bar. It gives you the status of your laptop’s battery charge and expected duration that your battery will last in Hours:Minutes, in a visually appealing way. There are three colour codes that the author has used to indicate the left battery charge:
- Green (> 40% remaining of battery charge)
- Yellow (25-40% of remaining battery charge)
- Red (< 25% of remaining battery charge)
- Blue ( When the battery is getting recharged in AC power mode)
- Black ( When the battery is fully charged and on AC power mode)
BatteryBar runs on Windows Vista and requires .NET Framework 2.0. We could not test this in Windows XP, it would be appreciated if any of you can give feedback on BatteryBar running on Windows XP.
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Looks like a handy utility, will try it on Vista
I’m the author of the application. It does work in XP and Vista. I have heard that it doesn’t work on x64 versions; I don’t have an x64 OS to test it on.
Chris,
Thanks for the confirmation. Meanwhile I will try to test this in Vista x64 soon.
Nirmal,
Try and let me know your opinion
Version 1.1 doesn’t correctly register with Vista x64. The next version does support x64 properly, along with a bunch of other new features.
A beta version is available at http://vb.nitescifi.com/BatteryBar/BatteryBar1.2.exe
BatteryBar 2.0 has been released
http://vb.nitescifi.com/batterybar.html
Hey Chris
thanks for the handy tool it is very neat and optimized
but the only problem that faces me is my HP laptop would never give the estimated lifetime of the battery and i hope you would help me on that issue
Contact me via my forum at
http://vb.nitescifi.com/forum
works fine on an MSI Wind Netbook running Windows XP Home.
Only shows percentage on toolbar, but mouse over gives specifics.
What you don’t get is the approximate time left.
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Approximate time remaining requires that the battery discharge enough for it to collect at least 3 data points to begin estimating time remaining.
In a future version I’ll have it do a capacity/rate estimation until it gets enough data.
If you have future comments, please visit the forum posted in my previous comment.
I would like to report this application also works on Windows 7 beta build 7000. Also I just noticed (thanks to this app and stock battery meter) that Windows 7 gets superior battery life to XP on the MSI Wind U100.