BatteryBar: The Battery Meter for Windows

The item on battery wear is interesting since the usual battery indicator only shows the remaining power. Quite useful, really.

interesting app =)

I’m using an MSI Wind U123, with a 9-cell battery, running Windows XP, and LCD brightness set to 50 percent…

Using the default battery meter on a full charge, it showed that I have 10:16 (hh:mm) without Wi-Fi and without a wireless broadband connection, 9:39 with Wi-Fi switched on, and 7:53 with wireless broadband connected.

Using Battery Bar on a full charge, it it showed that I have 9:16 without Wi-Fi and without a wireless broadband connection, 8:51 with Wi-Fi switched on, and 7:20 with wireless broadband connected. Battery wear is at 1.9 percent.

Hope this information is helpful. =)

I’ll try this on my netbook. I like the feature where in I can see the remaining hours of my battery.

BatteryBar is nice and lightweight, however BatteryCare is most useful. I just thought you ought to know. Check this out:

http://techgeekzone.blogspot.com/2009/12/batterycare-your-friend-in-extending.html

nice, install ko sa msi na mapapanalunan ko yan! yes!

Ok to pero mas useful ang para sa temperature kasi meron ng battery monitor ang vista/win7.

I will try this one on my netbook. Thank you for sharing

This is a good additional software aside from the default battery meter on my acer laptop. It even has a battery wear indicator. I wonder if it is accurate?

Tamang-tama download ko na 2 in preparation sa mapapanalunan kng MSI netbook, heheh!

I’ve been using this app for almost 4 months now. It’s a great little app that offers a wealth of information.

nice one! i’ll try this out! thanks sir yuga =)

I’ve just tried out both Battery Bar and Battery Care, and I’d probably agree with Karl’s comments (dated Dec 13th, 2009 at 5:26 pm (#10))… I ran both utilities side by side. Both seem to be accurate enough (difference of just about 10-15 minutes). Battery Bar is visually more appealing and doesn’t get much in the way of my netbooks 1024 x 600 display. But I found Battery Care’s set of information and functionalities more useful.

Nice little app. My Lenovo already has a power manager with a built-in battery meter. ^_^

And I second the BatteryCare recommendation. Helps you monitor your battery’s health thru discharge counts and wear levels.
http://batterycare.bkspot.com/en/index.html

Thanks abe! great app! Great things comes in small packages! really helps a lot..

As the author of BatteryBar, I can tell you that the build-in Windows “time remaining” meter is NOT accurate. Windows calculates time remaining based on the exact discharge rate at the moment the battery is sampled. In other words, Windows is telling you, “Assuming the battery discharge rate remains exactly the same as it is right in this moment, your battery will last x hours and xx minutes.”

The problem is that discharge rates fluctuate quite a bit and batteries discharge in a non-linear fashion, usually slower closer to 100%.

BatteryBar keeps historical usage data on your battery and keeps track of exactly how long it takes to move from 99% to 98% and so on. With BatteryBar, you can literal watch the timer tick the minutes away rather than getting the huge time remaining fluctuations you get with Windows.

I hope that helps.

sorr i should have used these links…

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Hi!

I just want to ask who is the developer of this app?

Thanks!