One of the most essential thing which is considered while buying a laptop is its battery backup. And we all know that higher the battery backup, higher the price of the laptop (most cases). But the backup reduces with time, so to avoid this from happening you can use a free utility called Batterycare.
Batterycare is a software that is designed to get you the most out of your laptop battery. It helps in optimizing the performance of the battery. It monitors the battery’s discharge cycles and helps increasing it’s autonomy and improving its lifetime. The features it provide are enlisted here :-
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.
Notification area information
- In battery mode, the notification icon shows the remaining time and percentage of battery
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.
Auto-updates
- No need to trouble in downloading new installers, when a new version is available, the program updates itself.
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.
P.S :- You can download the software from its official site here. BatteryCare is a product that is constantly being developed. So it might occur some anomalies with its functioning. Please share your experience with us.