If you are on laptop, you must be knowing that your system shows a small laptop battery meter icon in system tray area. But this icon does not give an accurate or exact battery meter details. Few times it shows inaccurate information also. So, you can not really depend on this default battery meter provided by your operating system. You need to use Power Meter Plus, a freeware that manages your laptop battery power and gives you an detailed and exact information.
Power Meter Plus is a tool designed to provide battery meter status of a laptop. It displays a transparent vertical bar just above the system tray area and gets louder with the battery use. The less charge you have, the more visible it will be. Visibility of Power Meter Plus means that you are running out of your laptop battery life and it’s time to get it charged.
While getting charged, power Meter Plus vertical bar will go green. The more charge your battery gathers, the more transparent it will get. It also shows you charge availability in percentage. This is highly customizable and you can play with it’s colours to suit your desktop theme. And also, it comes handy with a total size of 135 KB.
Power Meter Plus is free to use. But they charge $10 for business usages. It’s compatible with Widows 9X, Windows XP and Windows 2003.
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