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re: Battery icon always shows "on ac power"
Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 1:29 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by bob wells
(1263 messages posted)
Martin,
Probably involved with ACPI Power Panagement and it's Drivers.
Even in Win98 it's difficult to address any PM problems on an individual Basis. Remove/Reboot
seems to be the only Solution.
I did find a Check box for the ICON in Control Panel> Power Options Properties,
Advanced Tab, however, I think this just allows the ICON on/off,. Probably wouldn't
correct incorrect Display of Power state.
ACPI is a complex System, so getting it fixed is an accomplishment.
What would we do without Device Manager?
BW
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There's nothing to learn from someone who already agrees with you.
On Saturday, July 12, 2008 at 11:44 pm, MartinM wrote:
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>Thanks for your concern - having deleted the two items in Device Manager under "Battery",
>and allowed them to be re-discovered and re-installed at re-boot, "Microsoft Composite
>Battery" has magically reappeared in Device Manager under "System": it is the intermediary
>between the battery and various system functions of which the battery state-of-charge
>icon is one.
>
>I can't find any reference to how or why this works, but it seems that "Microsoft
>Composite Battery" cannot be installed directly, its a side effect of the other
items
>being installed. Very strange, and no wonder there are so many Google references
>to struggling with it.
>
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