Kamis, 10 November 2011

How to Handle "Consider Replacing Your Battery" In Windows 7

For those of you laptop users with the Windows 7 operating system, sooner or later you will surely get a notification "Consider Replacing your battery" accompanied by the emergence of the red cross mark on the battery icon in the system tray. Notification that appears when Windows 7 "assume" it's time your laptop battery is replaced
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Please note that this notification appears when Windows 7 detects that the capacity of your laptop battery is less than 40% capacity should be, and therefore are appropriately replaced. Nevertheless, many reports from users of Windows 7 in various parts of the world that states that Windows 7 is sometimes wrong in detecting capacity laptop battery. Even once there was a user who had already replaced the battery with a new laptop but still get this notification.

Regardless of whether or not accurate in detecting Windows 7 laptop battery capacity, I think we agree that the laptop battery is an expensive item. So long as still can be used well (despite being less than 40% capacity is ideal), it does not need to be replaced. I personally think that as long as the laptop battery still can last over 30 minutes then it is not the time to be replaced.

If you experience problems "Consider Replacing your battery" as above, you should not panic or rush to spend deep to buy a new laptop battery. There is a simple way to eliminate these annoying notifications. Here are the steps:

  •      Charge your battery up to full (99% - 100%), then turn off your laptop. Until this stage do not  always unplug his charger.
  •      Turn on your laptop and press F8 repeatedly until the Advanced Boot Options menu appears. Choose Safe Mode.
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  • Having already entered into the Windows Safe Mode, then unplug your laptop battery charger.
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  • Leave it on until the laptop turns itself off because the battery is completely discharged. It is advisable not to operate your laptop during this process. Leave it until the laptop turns itself off. 
  • After death, plug your laptop charger back, then restart your laptop normally. The result ... all back to normal! Notification "Consider Replacing your battery" and red cross signs on the battery icon does not appear anymore.
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Above technique is basically a way to calibrate your laptop battery capacity. By running the laptop starts from the initial conditions a full battery (capacity 100%) until it is completely empty (0% capacity), then Windows 7 so it "knows" the true capacity (real capacity) of laptop batteries, and automatically reset parameter settings to -parameters related to the laptop battery.
This method has been tested to 2 different laptops, the HP and Acer, both successful and proven successful. So, you now need not be confused anymore when getting notification "Consider Replacing your battery" on your laptop.
Note
Based on the explanation of the Windows 7 engineers in one of the official release on the Microsoft website, explained that the notification was actually originally intended to become one of the security features in Windows 7 (it does not exist in Windows XP or Windows Vista), whose purpose is to inform users that the laptop battery is worn out and therefore it was time to be replaced.
But in fact, many users of Windows 7 that was disturbed by the appearance of this notification. Some have argued that the limit (threshold) 40% considered to be too large considering the capacity of 30%-an ideal of any capacity laptop batteries are generally still able to last about 1 hour, and this it is still quite adequate for laptop users. Besides the price of laptop batteries are fairly expensive to make many users are reluctant to replace the laptop battery unless it is completely broken.
But not a few who consider the "features" of this as a bug, considering the number of cases where Windows 7 is proven wrong in detecting the true capacity of the laptop battery. I personally consider including this as a bug! Why? Because when I got a HP laptop notifkasi testing with this I do to charge the battery fully and then go into Windows normal (not Safe Mode) and then select Power Saver option and silence him.
The result, in just 48 minutes my laptop is dead (battery discharged). As I have already lost calibration and notifikasinya, I did the same thing. I charge it up then enter Windows normally and then select Power Saver and silence him. The results were different! Need waktuh 1 hour 24 minutes before my laptop died because of power in the battery runs out. So there is a difference of about 40 minutes here, and I think difference of 40 minutes is really very significant.
In conclusion: Microsoft seems to still have a lot of hard work to fix the bug "Consider Replacing your battery" is.

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