BATTERY BAR Pro FULL VERSION 3.6.1
BatteryBar displays relevant information on your laptop's battery, such
as full runtime and battery wear. With its help you can keep track on
your battery's lifespan and figure out how to take better care of your
laptop.
The installer includes a BatteryBar toolbar and floating
toolbar, and you can select which of these components you want to
install (or both). It also offers support for additional themes and
language translations.
The interface of the tool consists of a
very small frame which resembles a battery meter. It shows the current
percentage of your remaining battery, but you can hover the mouse cursor
over it to get additional details.
Therefore, you can find out
the current percentage level, capacity, charge rate, status, elapsed
time, full runtime and battery wear.
The unregistered version
does not boast many functions, but you can unlock the pro edition for a
limited time, in order to use BatteryBar at its fullest. For example,
you can select a battery power scheme, make the frame stay on top of
other windows, as well as pick a battery profile to display in a
graphical representation, based on the charge or discharge factor.
However,
the main configuration is done from the Settings panel, as BatteryBar
sports numerous options to alter. You can use separate battery profiles
for each power scheme, hide the tool when the battery is fully charged,
change the font style, and show individual battery status popups for
dual batteries.
It is also possible to use custom sounds for
critical and low battery warnings, automatically close notifications
after a particular time frame, adjust the warning levels (based on
remaining minutes till discharge), disable the Aero effect, specify a
power scheme to automatically switch the laptop to when it's plugged in
or on battery mode, as well as log all details and reset all settings
and stored battery profiles.
BatteryBar is fairly light on the
system resources, has a good response time and provides accuracy
regarding the battery levels. We have not encountered any problems
throughout our evaluation. In conclusion, BatteryBar delivers a simple
solution for monitoring the battery status, yet allows plenty of
configuration steps for power users.