The X61 battery power meter on the status bar tray color is white background
with light gray meter. I have difficulty reading it. I can only see the
battery power percentage when I move the mouse over it to show the number.

How can I change the battery power meter color scheme?

Or, where can I load another power meter program. My X61 runs in Vista Home
Basic.

I remember when I had the ThinkPad R31, IBM support gave me the link to
download the power meter program, when mine disappeared. But that was in XP.

Thanks.

Aaron wrote:
> The X61 battery power meter on the status bar tray color is white background
> with light gray meter. I have difficulty reading it. I can only see the
> battery power percentage when I move the mouse over it to show the number.
>
> How can I change the battery power meter color scheme?
>
> Or, where can I load another power meter program. My X61 runs in Vista Home
> Basic.
>
> I remember when I had the ThinkPad R31, IBM support gave me the link to
> download the power meter program, when mine disappeared. But that was in XP.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>

Try adjusting the transparency to a lower level. This will darken the
status bar. Frankly, turn off transparency altogether and make Vista run
a bit more like XP. Google: turn off vista transparency.

I do not believe you can change the system icon for the power meter.
You might be bound by the startup program installed that overrides the
Vista icon that is a dark background.

To turn off transparency altogether, right-click the desktop, select
Personalize, select Theme and toggle Vista Basic.

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