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    Battery time remaining on Laptop

    I've got a little problem on my laptop!

    The battery icon in the taskbar will display the % battery remaining, but won't display a battery time remaining.

    The laptop is an Acer TravelMate 663LMi, and its running Windows XP Pro SP2.

    Any help appreciated, cheers guys!!

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    Ummm, one way may be to make sure the battery is 100%, then running it down to zero, i think that kinda calibrates it. But i also hear running Li-Ion batts down to zero can have negative effects so dont try it before someone else on here comments

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    Will give it a try, will run it down to a few % and see what happens

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    Does that laptop support Acer's ePowerManagement software? If so get it installed - it's quite handy.
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