topic Re: Viewing Battery Time Remaining! in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/viewing-battery-time-remaining/m-p/113661#M83181 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>i use notebook hardware control where u can set a icon in the taskbar that shows u the time.<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:24:56 GMT rgoggy 2007-01-21T20:24:56Z Viewing Battery Time Remaining! https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/viewing-battery-time-remaining/m-p/113659#M83179 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi I have an AR11M and am able to tell the percentage of battery life remaining. However a couple of my friend's have slightly older vaio models and next to the percentage of battery time it also shows the time remaining before the battery is discharged. I was wondering whether this is possible on the AR series and how could I enable it as it would be a very useful feature. thanks in advance.<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:32:12 GMT https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/viewing-battery-time-remaining/m-p/113659#M83179 Dekesh 2007-01-21T17:32:12Z Re: Viewing Battery Time Remaining! https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/viewing-battery-time-remaining/m-p/113660#M83180 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Dekesh,<BR /><BR />This has been discontinued on newer Vaios and other laptops. I think it was just too unreliable and misleading.<BR /><BR />Try something like <A href="http://www.batterymatexp.com/" target="_blank">BatteryMate XP</A> which predicts remaining time based on a learning experience. It is free to download and try out but will cost you £5 if you want to use it permanently or you will get an annoying pop-up screen every time you start up.<BR /><BR /> <img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.ba/html/@0248C33DDCF34AA61B8F8F33F5AFA5BE/images/smilies/013.png" alt=":wink:" title=":wink:" /><BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:56:40 GMT https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/viewing-battery-time-remaining/m-p/113660#M83180 Blencogo 2007-01-21T17:56:40Z Re: Viewing Battery Time Remaining! https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/viewing-battery-time-remaining/m-p/113661#M83181 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>i use notebook hardware control where u can set a icon in the taskbar that shows u the time.<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:24:56 GMT https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/viewing-battery-time-remaining/m-p/113661#M83181 rgoggy 2007-01-21T20:24:56Z Re: Viewing Battery Time Remaining! https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/viewing-battery-time-remaining/m-p/113662#M83182 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>how can i access this notebook hardware control thing you are talking about?<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:31:10 GMT https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/viewing-battery-time-remaining/m-p/113662#M83182 Dekesh 2007-01-22T06:31:10Z Re: Viewing Battery Time Remaining! https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/viewing-battery-time-remaining/m-p/113664#M83183 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Dekesh<BR /><BR />I think this may be the <A href="http://www.pbus-167.com/" target="_blank">notebook hardware control</A> program that rgoggy is talking about.. <img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.ba/html/@3191CA7235A406D833094BA2DD1CF2FF/images/smilies/011.png" alt=":slight_smile:" title=":slight_smile:" /><BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:19:05 GMT https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/viewing-battery-time-remaining/m-p/113664#M83183 Thalamus. 2007-01-22T16:19:05Z Re: Viewing Battery Time Remaining! https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/viewing-battery-time-remaining/m-p/113665#M83184 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have just installed this notebook hardware control program and have noticed that the CPU clock can be modulated. If i use 12.5% (the smallest allowed) the laptop runs very slow but i pressume battery lite will be increased. however is this dangerous for the laptop to modulate the CPU clock or is it perfectly fine?<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:02:15 GMT https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/viewing-battery-time-remaining/m-p/113665#M83184 Dekesh 2007-01-22T22:02:15Z Re: Viewing Battery Time Remaining! https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/viewing-battery-time-remaining/m-p/113666#M83185 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>it is not dangerous but a feature of new cpus <BR /><BR />u have to see whats more important. more performance or more battery <BR />i use most of the ime Max. Battery and when i realy need performance i change it to max performance<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:19:42 GMT https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/viewing-battery-time-remaining/m-p/113666#M83185 rgoggy 2007-01-23T20:19:42Z