Low Battery Notification does not pop up when battery reaches critical level after upgrading to windows 7

Anonymous
2009-11-29T22:08:17+00:00

I upgraded to windows 7 recently and the battery notification does not work when the battery reaches it's critical level.  It worked fine with vista.  Before when the battery reached 25% the icon in the notification area there was a visual reminder and when the level reached 5% a pop up would occur.  Now with windows 7 I get nothing to remind me.  I checked in the power options where I can edit my power plans and the battery notification read that it was turned on.

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Anonymous
2010-07-24T08:13:18+00:00

I was also having this problem of Windows 7 of just going into hibernate on low battery without notification.

I checked out the Microsoft site for Battery faq and how t change low battery notification which didn't tell me something I didn't already know. So I decided to experiment some. I discovered that when I changed my Critical Battery Action to "Shut Down" from "Hibernate", the Low Battery Notification popped up and  could switch to a power source. I changed the Critical Battery Action back to "Hibernate" and the Low Battery Notification still pops up. I guess the system just needed a little push :)

My install is barely a week old so I guess the installation didn't make the correct settings. Having applied some changes to the settings has caused the system to behave correctly in this case.

I hope this will help others with this issue.

Cheers

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Anonymous
2009-11-30T19:50:34+00:00

Hi ejslate82,

Welcome to Microsoft Answers.

****I would suggest you to follow the below mentioned steps and check if this helps -

The icon might be hidden. Here's how to show the battery icon:

  1. Right-click an empty area on the taskbar, and then click Properties.
  2. Under Notification area, click Customize.
  3. In Notification Area Icons, click Turn system icons on or off.
  4. On the Turn system icons on or off page, under Behaviors, click On in the drop-down list next to Power, and then click OK.

Refer to the below mentioned links for additional guidance on the issue –

Battery meter FAQ –

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Battery-meter-frequently-asked-questions

How do I change low battery notification -

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/How-do-I-change-the-low-battery-notification

Hope this helps. Let us know the results.

Thanks,

Meghmala – Microsoft Support

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-03-05T04:44:02+00:00

    Hi,

    if that works, I'd be very grateful if you could send me a copy.

    thanks,

    mike

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-03-04T15:38:31+00:00

    Is there a misunderstanding here?  The notifications that you can set are just Low battery [level, notification] & Reserve battery* [level].  There is no notification for Critical battery in Win7 [just level & action].

    If, for example, you've set Low battery at 6% & Critical battery at 3% [the lowest mine accepts], you could set Reserve battery at 4% so that it acts as a last ditch warning to connect to power before the Citical battery action takes place without any further warning.

    [* Reserve battery level is not associated with any action other than bringing  up a warning dialog - "Critical battery warning.  You are now running in Reserve power mode.  Your battery is very low (4%), please plug in immediately.  If you don't, your computer will soon automatically hibernate."]

    try this !!! this worked with me !! arrange the percentage level!! the notification works with the reserve battery level, so if the critical battery level is greater than that of the reserve battery level, the critical battery action will work before the reserve battery action !! 

    thanks !! 

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-02-26T02:52:21+00:00

    Cbarnhorst - 

    I followed that link, found my computer and its original OS (Vista Home Premium), but I didn't see anything clear about how to update the drivers for Windows 7, which is not even on the list of OSs for my computer.

    Do you have further directions?

    Here's the page for my pc that corresponds to your link: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?prodNameId=3340137&lang=en&cc=us&taskId=135&prodClassId=-1&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=2511221

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