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Why can't my laptop say "plug me in!" on low battery?

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Al Dykes

Flightless Bird
Has anyone come up with a hack to make W7 play a user-created bit of
sound when the battery triggers the low-on-power event?

By default, it's the same beep as a bunch of other events and if I'm
focused on something or have my back turned on the machine, I can miss
it until it's too late.

--
Al Dykes
News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising.
- Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail
 
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Nil

Flightless Bird
On 06 Sep 2010, adykes@panix.com (Al Dykes) wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

> Has anyone come up with a hack to make W7 play a user-created bit
> of sound when the battery triggers the low-on-power event?
>
> By default, it's the same beep as a bunch of other events and if
> I'm focused on something or have my back turned on the machine, I
> can miss it until it's too late.


If you don't like the default, change it in Control Panel. It doesn't
require a hack.
 
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Bob I

Flightless Bird
Navigate to "Low battery alarm" in Sounds, and change it. If you don't
want to use any prerecorded bits that you find, you have to record your
own.

On 9/6/2010 8:07 AM, Al Dykes wrote:
> Has anyone come up with a hack to make W7 play a user-created bit of
> sound when the battery triggers the low-on-power event?
>
> By default, it's the same beep as a bunch of other events and if I'm
> focused on something or have my back turned on the machine, I can miss
> it until it's too late.
>
 
A

Al Dykes

Flightless Bird
In article <3C7ho.44818$1v3.28074@newsfe20.iad>,
Bob I <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Navigate to "Low battery alarm" in Sounds, and change it. If you don't
>want to use any prerecorded bits that you find, you have to record your
>own.
>




Thanks. Silly me, I looked in Power option.

--
Al Dykes
News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising.
- Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail
 
B

Bob I

Flightless Bird
On 9/6/2010 1:51 PM, Al Dykes wrote:
> In article<3C7ho.44818$1v3.28074@newsfe20.iad>,
> Bob I<birelan@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Navigate to "Low battery alarm" in Sounds, and change it. If you don't
>> want to use any prerecorded bits that you find, you have to record your
>> own.
>>

>
>
>
> Thanks. Silly me, I looked in Power option.
>


You're welcome, you may also notice there is a "Critical battery alarm"
sound setting.
 
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