BatteryCare–Optimize the usage and performance of the modern laptop's battery

 

   
BatteryCare is a software created to optimize the usage and performance of the modern laptop's battery. It monitors the battery's discharge cycles and helps increasing it's autonomy and improving its lifetime.

BatteryCare allows you to have the control over the discharge cycles number, and when this reaches 30 (or other configured value), it notifies you that it's time to perform a full discharge in order to keep the battery gauge calibrated.
Like this, it's guaranteed to always have the correct capacity values reported by the battery.

Besides, when using the battery, there's the possibility to suspend some Operating System features that help degrading the autonomy (only in Windows Vista or higher):

- Windows Aero, the theme that allows for visual effects like window transparency, requires graphics card acceleration, which obviously will help decreasing the battery lifetime;

- SuperFetch, ReadyBoost and SearchIndexer are three Windows Vista (and higher) services that, even in battery mode, are using the hard disk a lot and increase total power consumption, thus decreasing battery lifetime. Suspending these services has absolutely no negative impact on the performance or security of the system.

These features are resumed once the laptop is plugged in to A/C power.

Main Features of Battery Care

Battery's discharge cycles monitoring: The advanced algorithm accurately records when a complete discharge cycle is performed. When the configured number of discharge cycles is reached, a notification balloon pops up to remind that a full discharge is required.

Complete battery information: It calculates the statistical remaining time in laptops that don't support the battery time left information and only list the charge percentage.Shows all the detailed information about the battery, such as wear level, capacities, consumption, manufacturer, etc.

CPU and HDD temperature reading: BatteryCare constantly monitors your CPU and hard drive temperature, either in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.

Automatic power plans switching: Depending on the power source of the computer, BatteryCare can automatically select the power plan you prefer.

Control over Windows Aero and demanding Services: Automatically disable the graphics accelerated theme in Windows Vista and/or demanding services that degrade battery lifetime.
Once the laptop stops running on batteries, the theme is re-enabled and the stopped services are restored.

Notification area information: It features a compact popup with the essential information you need to quickly monitor. Temperatures, charge status, remaining time and power plans

Lightweight in the system: Given the concern about the battery optimization, BatteryCare does not interfere with the system performance. It requires only a mere 0,1% of Processor and Memory resources.

 

Download: http://batterycare.net/en/download.html