BatteryCare is a software created to optimize the usage and performance of the modern laptop's battery
Monitoring and maximizing your
laptop battery’s life becomes much easier with this free program. The
program sits in your system tray like the Windows battery monitor, but
gives much more information when your mouse hovers over it. It monitors
the battery's discharge cycles and helps increasing it's autonomy and
improving its lifetime.
It tells your battery’s percentage charged, the temperature of your CPU and hard drive, and your current power setting.
If you click the icon in the
System Tray, you are shown a selection menu to change your power
settings. This means you can change to your Power Saver setting with
just one click.
Right-clicking the BatteryCare
icon in the System Tray brings up another menu that allows you to change
your power plan, adjust settings, donate to the publisher or show the
program’s main information screen. Click Show at the top of the menu to
see more information about your battery than you have likely ever seen.
The first screen that appear is
basic information, further describing your battery’s current health.
This is where you can find out how much battery life you have before
finding a place to plug in.
Click Detailed Information
towards the top right of the window to bring up a menu with information
about your battery’s designed capacity, current capacity and wear level.
This can help you predict if it is time to buy a new battery.
Clicking the Settings link at
the top right of this window brings up configuration options for getting
the most of BatteryCare and your battery.
Most of the general settings are
self explanatory, like starting the program when Windows starts, but
there are added settings to disable the Aero theme in Vista (it worked
in Windows 7 too) and to pause services. This can extend your battery
life at least a few extra minutes.
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