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04-03-2008
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| | storage battery Where can I see how long my storage battery will work? I wonly see it in per cent. Where can I change it? |
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04-03-2008
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| | Re: storage battery The amount of time it lasts depends on what you do during at that time. A wireless connection, used constantly to go to internet sites would burn the battery much faster than the system running nothing. The percent of charge left is really the only measure available, since the variables of use and consumption would be too complex to predict meaningfully. How long it would last depends on how much you use it. Would you be taking a 15 minute break in a while? How would that be factored in? -- Was this helpful? Then click the Ratings button. Voting helps the web interface. http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales...eAPostAsAnswer Mark L. Ferguson .. "andi" <andi@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:60C959C4-14E4-435E-A5A6-E33983F63E5A@xxxxxx Quote: > Where can I see how long my storage battery will work? I wonly see it in > per > cent. Where can I change it? |
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04-03-2008
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| | Re: storage battery Hi andi, As Mark says, the operating life of your battery depends upon what you use your laptop for. However, the display format of charge remaining is dependant on the laptop manufacturer and the driver that it uses to report battery status. Some give a percentage, some give a time remaining and some give both. In all cases, the status is an estimated value of battery life remaining. Unless the laptop manufacturer supplies another driver enabling you to monitor the battery life in another format, then I'm afraid that you are stuck with it being reported as a percentage. Dwarf "Mark L. Ferguson" wrote: Quote: > The amount of time it lasts depends on what you do during at that time. A > wireless connection, used constantly to go to internet sites would burn the > battery much faster than the system running nothing. The percent of charge > left is really the only measure available, since the variables of use and > consumption would be too complex to predict meaningfully. How long it would > last depends on how much you use it. Would you be taking a 15 minute break > in a while? How would that be factored in? > -- > Was this helpful? Then click the Ratings button. Voting helps the web > interface. > http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales...eAPostAsAnswer > Mark L. Ferguson > . > > "andi" <andi@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:60C959C4-14E4-435E-A5A6-E33983F63E5A@xxxxxx Quote: > > Where can I see how long my storage battery will work? I wonly see it in > > per > > cent. Where can I change it? |
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04-03-2008
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| | Re: storage battery My wife's Gateway laptop show both the time and percent remaining on the battery when hovering the cursor over the battery icon in the Notification Area of the Task Bar. I don't know if I can change it. like... 2 hr 25 min (92%) remaining current power plan: Balanced -- Vista Home Premium 32 SP1 http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview "andi" <andi@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:60C959C4-14E4-435E-A5A6-E33983F63E5A@xxxxxx Quote: > Where can I see how long my storage battery will work? I wonly see it in > per > cent. Where can I change it? |
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04-03-2008
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| | Re: storage battery On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 05:02:00 -0700, andi <andi@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: >Where can I see how long my storage battery will work? I wonly see it in per >cent. Where can I change it? Buy it and be worry free. -- Ciao, Falcon |
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