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Thread ID: 99028	2009-04-17 00:59:00	How do I activate the Critical Battery and Low Battery audio alarms?	tuiruru (12277)	Press F1

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
765785	2009-04-17 00:59:00	Hi. I’m using Vista Home Premium SP 1 on my laptop and am fed up with the battery dying with little warning (the little symbols that appear over the battery icon in the system tray are not exactly attention grabbing). In the default Windows sound system there are sounds allocated to Critical Battery and Low Battery alarms and these work when I press the test button. However when I open Power Options by right clicking the battery icon I can’t see anywhere that allows me to enable the said alarms. Where should I be looking? Thanks	tuiruru (12277)
765786	2009-04-17 01:44:00	Unfortunately vista cannot do this You'll need to use a thrid party program: www.pctipsbox.com Blam	Blam (54)
765787	2009-04-17 03:17:00	Hi Blam Have you used this program personally and is it any good?	tuiruru (12277)
765788	2009-04-17 03:35:00	Quite simple to use, does one thing really and that is play a wav when battery is low/critical You'll need to add it to your startup by dragging it into your Startup folder Blam	Blam (54)
765789	2009-04-17 04:32:00	OMFG even 98 has the battery low sounds etc :lol::p	williamF (115)
765790	2009-04-17 06:04:00	Windows 98 has a feature for that, but doesn't actually have sounds for it - it uses the ding.wav file. :p	pcuser42 (130)
765791	2009-04-17 08:08:00	you can try my volt program, it will nag you at 20% to plug in resistorhelper.no-ip.org not sure if it will work properly on vista give it a shot	williamF (115)
765792	2009-04-17 09:10:00	Thanks for the input folks Blam6 was right in his original post - see here: www.verboon.info Also thye little bit of software he suggested works a treat - you can even replace the .wav files with your own recorded voice ones - it'll drive my wife mad so the weekend's got off to a good start!!	tuiruru (12277)
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