My battery meter shows the remaining power only as a percentage and not as a
specific time (which is my preferred option). I am running Vista on a Toshiba
laptop. Is there a way to fix this in Vista or is it part of the laptops
design?

The remaining time on a battery is a direct function of the workload being
placed on the PC. For example if you are using the Laptop to watch DVD
movies that remaining time will be one heck of a list then if you are just
working on a document or a spreadsheet.

And since this is not constant there is now way for Vista to estimate it.
"CJP89" <CJP89@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My battery meter shows the remaining power only as a percentage and not as
> a
> specific time (which is my preferred option). I am running Vista on a
> Toshiba
> laptop. Is there a way to fix this in Vista or is it part of the laptops
> design?

I thought something was wrong because I know that XP laptops update to show
the remaining time according to the stress on the system. Also I know some
people that downloaded gadgets that did this for them on Vista, I have tried
this and it still doesn't work. I was hoping that there would be some setting
to fix this.

"JW" wrote:

> The remaining time on a battery is a direct function of the workload being
> placed on the PC. For example if you are using the Laptop to watch DVD
> movies that remaining time will be one heck of a list then if you are just
> working on a document or a spreadsheet.
>
> And since this is not constant there is now way for Vista to estimate it.
> "CJP89" <CJP89@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1F06BF9A-DAA9-4134-ADF4-D321EB66F087@microsoft.com...
> > My battery meter shows the remaining power only as a percentage and not as
> > a
> > specific time (which is my preferred option). I am running Vista on a
> > Toshiba
> > laptop. Is there a way to fix this in Vista or is it part of the laptops
> > design?
>