![]() ![]() Now it shows 0% wear and I've verified this with the command line 'powercfg /energy'. When I started using the BatteryBar app it indicated a battery wear of about 7-9%. I would guess the battery most likely stayed on charge for most of that time. This MSI GP-72 started its life as a demo unit for a few months but the deal was too good to ignore. This setup is a bit more manual but is almost flawless. If I plan to go mobile or just a periodic battery maintenance, I might allow the high charge to reach 98%. This way I can once in a while allow the charge level to exceed 90% without disabling the high alarm. I keep the Battery Limiter app pinned to my taskbar and not set to start with Windows. The info widow above is produced with a mouse-over on the taskbar icon. I have the BatteryBar app on my taskbar and set to start with windows. I believe that allowing a Li ion battery level to fall below 25% will promote a premature failure.īatteryBar Pro: Windows Battery Life Tracker I set the critical battery level to 25% and the critical battery action is set to hibernate. ![]() If I have stepped away from the PC, the Battery Limiter alarm will yell at 43%, alerting me to come back and energize the charger. This is my indicator to switch on the power bar/charger easily within reach. I've also tweaked the settings in the Advanced Power options menu.īy setting the low battery level in the Advanced Power options menu to 45%, the display dims and produces a low battery notification from Windows. Battery Limiter allows you to set high and low alarm limits, with visual and or audio indicators. I use an app called Battery Limiter along with BatteryBar free. Doing that puts the standalone Dell Power Manager (and its drivers) back on the laptop and everything works again.Which monitoring software do you use? I’ll give it a go So MyDell is now where this is supposed to be (but isn't) so Dell Power Manager can't install standalone, but MyDell does not have the functionality and links to the Dell Power Manger app (which can't install).įortunately, the fix is to download Dell Power Manager from the Dell Support site NOT from the Microsoft Store. In the driver pack is a check that then fails and says that this functionality has been moved to MyDell. Once the Microsoft store version of Dell Power Manager installs, it then wants to download a driver pack to complete the setup. Clicking the link opens the Microsoft store where Dell Power Manager can be downloaded and installed (downloaded an installed is necessary since Dell auto-removed this app earlier). Well, the last update to MyDell removed the new power settings from My Dell app and put in a link back to the old Dell Power Manager app. If Dell wants to move things around so be it, and that is one less app (Dell Power Manager) to deal with. I prefer the separate dedicated app rather than having to open MyDell to change power & battery settings, but the same controls from DPM were in MyDell and so I thought.whatever. Thanks Dell for just forcing that chance and not telling anyone. I would guess as a way to avoid confusing of having the same settings in two places, the Dell Power Manager app was literally removed from my Inspiron when the My Dell application was updated. Suddenly the power settings appeared in a new tile in the MyDell App. Dell Power Manager is the utility that sets battery charging profiles & charging behavior and also sets thermal profiles & system performance behavior.Ī few days ago (early May 2021), this change rolled out. Dell in its infinite wisdom decided to move the functionality from its Dell Power Manager application into the My Dell app. ![]()
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