[Tequila]

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A reported issue with Microsoft Windows 7 – that it warns users they need to change their laptop batteries when they don't –does not actually seem to be an issue, Microsoft said Monday.

Last week, the company said it was investigating the reports and thought the issue might be related to a problem with system firmware, or a computer's BIOS. By Friday, it was looking as though there was no battery-warning problem with Windows 7.

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"To the very best of the collective ecosystem knowledge, Windows 7 is correctly warning batteries that are in fact failing and Windows 7 is neither incorrectly reporting on battery status nor in any way whatsoever causing batteries to reach this state," Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows and Windows Live Division, wrote in a blog post. "In every case we have been able to identify the battery being reported on was in fact in need of recommended replacement."

On the Engineering Windows 7 blog, Sinofsky explains that a new battery-monitoring feature in Windows 7 may tell users they should consider replacement if the battery is performing at 40 percent or worse than its designed capacity. It takes about one year for a battery to start noticeably degrading, and the customers who were getting the warning had systems older than 1.5 years, he said.

"Microsoft has received 12 customer service incidents in addition to pulling 8 additional incidents from various forums. To date (for a total of 20 incidents), none of these have shown anything other than degraded batteries," Sinofsky wrote.

Source : SeattlePi

[Dave]

Pheeewf :jump: Was worrying about my laptop battery :)

[MikeXD]

My laptop battery was only a few months old when I installed Windows 7, was getting 2 hours of battery life, and still received that warning. Here I am, 8 months later, using the same battery, looking at the same message every day, and my battery is still working fine. But whatever, there MUST be something wrong with it.

Does anybody know of a way to disable that wonderful new feature that they added, so I don't have to look at that red X flashing in my face?

This post has been edited by MikeXD: 09 February 2010 - 03:46 AM

[Dave]

Right click the Battery Icon > select turn system icons on or off > turn off the battery one ?