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post #1 of 5
5/2/07 at 5:08am
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Well, I recently purchased a Dell XPS M1210 and was frustrated with Vista asking for all sorts of permissions so I ended up formatting the hard drive and reinstalling to XP. I have installed the drivers from Dell, etc.

What I couldn't find was a battery monitor that stated how much time was left. I know there is the one from quickset, but that is only based on percentage.

So my question is:

Is there any way to get that battery meter back?

I also noticed that there were some of the battery power schemes missing, any suggestions on that?

I am sorry if I'm reposting, I'm just in a hurry to get this fixed.
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post #2 of 5
5/2/07 at 8:39am
well you can always use NHC- Notebook Hardware Control Works great on XP (don't use on Vista)

http://www.pbus-167.com/

Allows monitoring of battery life, power scheme control, temp moitoring, and a whole bunch more in a small little package that resides in the tray.

Of course your default battery meter should be showing up & you just have to hover over the blue battery icon to show remaining batter life & %.

There are only 2 default power schemes in XP. You can create additional ones in the power scheme tab under display/power
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post #3 of 5
5/2/07 at 8:47pm
http://www.notebookforums.com/thread195262.html
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post #4 of 5
5/4/07 at 9:08pm
Instead of uninstalling Vista, you could have simply gone to control panel and disabled UAC. That would have stopped Vista from ever asking you for permission ever again.
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post #5 of 5
5/10/07 at 7:26pm
Right click on desktop--->Properties--->ScreenSaver--->Power--->Advanced--->Enable "Always show icon on the taskbar"--->Ok. Now you should be able to see the batter icon meter on the taskbar
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