batteryinfoview utility.

[thinkpadcollection]

For many computers you can get status from the LED and some OSes does this (particularly linux disributions) but for unlucky people with silent notebooks like T410 I just got with so few features on LED status, I turn to my go-to portable utility called batteryinfoview. This will show detailed status on battery itself, how much power usage in charging and discharge rate for the battery, wear level as well (health/age of battery).

Cheers, thinkpadcollection.

[sktn77a]

Doesn't the ThinkVantage power/battery utility do the same thing? I've always found this much more informative that the standard windows power program, or similar programs from other manufacturers.

[thinkpadcollection]

Here's the 73Kbyte link to screen shot of what it is monitoring generic battery on T500 notebook:

http://www3.sympatico.ca/jpero/thinkpad ... foview.jpg

Notes: free and portable (just 4 files), tiny footprint memory/storage, ultra low resource utilization. Let it wait, program will reset correctly on estimated battery's runtime around 10 seconds.

Cheers, thinkpadcollection