Windows battery meter utility suggestions

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Published on 2009-09-06T08:36:20Z Indexed on 2010/04/17 23:33 UTC
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Can you suggest a good battery meter utility for Windows? Battery status being graphically displayed in the taskbar is the (obvious) minimum requirement. Anything else the utility can inform or do is a plus.

(If the battery meter taskbar icon is turned off by an admin it does not appear for non-admin users. That could be another reason to look for a battery meter utility apart from the one which comes with Windows.)

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