Using Battery Packs 5-5
Writer: Karen S. Williams Saved by: Cheryl Love Saved date: 09/05/97 2:33 PM
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Click the battery meter icon
to access a popup dialog box in
which you can
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Enable/disable the low-battery warning popup dialog box.
If
you check Enable Low Battery Warning, a popup dialog box
appears whenever the charge remaining in the battery pack
running the computer reaches a critical low-battery condition.
To close the Low Battery Warning dialog box, click OK.
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Toggle between displaying the amount of charge remaining in
the system as a percent of a full charge or as a time in hours.
Toggle the display options by clicking the option shown in the
dialog box.Your selection affects the display on all battery
meter features and on the Power tab in Power Properties. You
can toggle the display options only while the computer is
running on a battery pack; when the computer is running on
external power, the amount of charge remaining is displayed
as a percent of a full charge.
Right-click the battery meter icon
to access a popup dialog box
in which you can
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Display the battery meter dialog box
by clicking Open Battery
Meter. For information about an item in this dialog box, click
the question mark in the upper-right corner of the dialog box,
then click the item.
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Access the Power tab in Power Properties
by clicking Adjust
Power Properties. This feature is available only in
Windows 95
Double-click the battery meter icon
to
display the battery meter
dialog box.
Rest the cursor over the battery meter icon
to
display the
amount of charge remaining in the system.