Solved Windows 7 doesn't notify me when my battery is running low

Corazon said:

Hello caleb97,

click once on the battery icon in your notification area and select More power options.
Click on Change plan settings next to your currently active power plan.
Finally, click on Change advanced power settings.

A small window will pop up which allows you to edit all the details of the power plan. Scroll all the way down until you see Battery and expand the tree. Here you can set the percentages at which to trigger "low battery" and "critical battery" events, and whether you want a notification or a specific action to be performed.

This should solve your issue; if you still have problems please post back with any questions you may have.


On a side note, how often do you let your battery discharge and recharge?
It can actually cause it to wear out faster in the long term; also with modern lithium-ion batteries it's not necessary to completely run them empty. They will tolerate partial discharge/recharge cycles very well.
Just don't do it every other day or so - once a couple weeks or once a month is fine.

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Corazon said:

It's well possible your battery is simply getting too old and losing capacity. As a result your system might be forced to hibernate before it has a chance to give you a low-battery warning.

For now, you could try increasing the percentage value for the low-battery warning (maybe even to 50% just to see if it works once the charge reaches 50%).

But in the long run, you may be better off simply replacing the battery. At 3 years you've already had a pretty good run - my own laptop battery is just under 3 years old and pretty much shot.

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