Vista - Battery Power

Is there anyway I can set up a visual popup or indicator that my battery
power is low, I have set up an audio one but I keep missing it when I have
turned the sound down so as not to annoy everyone else watching TV ?

Do you not have a small battery icon to the left of the system clock? If you
do, check the advanced settings in Power Options to ensure that "Low battery
notification" is turned on. When working properly, a balloon-thing will pop
up when the power threshold is reached...it's hard to miss.

If you don't see the batter icon, right-click on the task bar and choose
Properties. Unser the "Notification Area" tab, make sure there is a check
mark next to "Power"

Tim


"killjoy" <johneastwell@ntlworld.comnospam> wrote in message
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> Is there anyway I can set up a visual popup or indicator that my battery
> power is low, I have set up an audio one but I keep missing it when I have
> turned the sound down so as not to annoy everyone else watching TV ?
>
>

What about the battery icon in the task bar?

"killjoy" <johneastwell@ntlworld.comnospam> wrote in message
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> Is there anyway I can set up a visual popup or indicator that my battery
> power is low, I have set up an audio one but I keep missing it when I have
> turned the sound down so as not to annoy everyone else watching TV ?
>
>

I think OP wants something more attention getting than another little
annoying balloon tip.

Another case of new OS from MS having fewer user controlled features. In
XP, one can set an application to run when the low/critical warnings are
activated - so you could have a big scary image file open up. I cannot find
any similar capability in Vista.

Val

"AJR" <ajrjdr@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> What about the battery icon in the task bar?
>
> "killjoy" <johneastwell@ntlworld.comnospam> wrote in message
> news:Oii3HkioHHA.3512@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Is there anyway I can set up a visual popup or indicator that my battery
>> power is low, I have set up an audio one but I keep missing it when I
>> have
>> turned the sound down so as not to annoy everyone else watching TV ?
>>
>>
>
>