Free download to show time left on battery

The battery time remaining value is based on the current load on your PC and this changes drastically when you adjust brightness, change volume, open programs and connect to WiFi or Bluetooth. Hence, the current version of Windows 10 shows battery life in terms of percentage, leaving the users to guess how long the battery is going to last on their computers. As mentioned above, it is still possible to make your computer indicate the battery time remaining and this can be accomplished by making changes to the Registry on your computer.

BatteryInfoView is a tiny portable executable of under K and is compatible with Windows and above. Download BatteryInfoView. This utility displays less information in terms of numbers than BatteryInfoView, but still a lot more than what Windows provides.

BatteryBar goes for a more user friendly approach and displays a very convenient graphical status of your laptop battery in the task bar which is much more readable than the Windows tray icon.

BatteryBar also learns about the the discharge rate of your battery over time, and therefore the more you use the program the more accurate it gets at calculating the minutes left value. This will show the battery status graphic on your task bar. Windows XP and above is supported. Download BatteryBar. There are also some other power saving optimizations on offer when on battery power including disabling the sidebar, disabling the Aero theme and pausing high consumption services.

The program also has its own tray icon and notifications about low battery status, and interacting with the icon several different ways gives you different displays. NET Framework v2 is required. Download BatteryCare.

Running the hack modifies the values of your Windows Registry. The other hack included disables this feature and reverts everything back to the way it was before, adding EnergyEstimationDisabled and UserBatteryDischargeEstimator values back to your registry and deleting EnergyEstimationEnsabled. Browse All iPhone Articles Browse All Mac Articles Do I need one? Browse All Android Articles Browse All Smart Home Articles Customize the Taskbar in Windows Browse All Microsoft Office Articles What Is svchost.

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