BattCursor shows the remaining battery charge in percent directly under the mouse cursor, and offers many other battery-saving features, including dim down the display brightness when inactive, automatically disable the Windows Sidebar, Aero Glass and much more.
And the best part: It costs nothing, worth seeing ;)
Battcursor uses the UpdateSystem.Net (german page) to check for new versions. This will access the host updates.devs-on.net. If you do not want to have Automatic Updates, you can disable this feature in the settings.
No private information from you will be sent, only the currently installed BattCursor version is sent and depending on user action the update will be downloaded. The only data that we collect for statistics reasons are: number of search for updates, number of updates and operating system version.
BattCursor 1.2 (40370 Downloads) Changelog
This installer retrives the current version out of the internet and installs this one, but it requires an internet connection. If you want to install BattCursor without an active internet connection please download the current version.
BattCursor WebInstall (2964 Downloads)
Notice: The files below are outdated and should not be used. You can use it if you have problems with the current version. In this case please tell us about so we can improve our application and fix errors.
BattCursor 1.1 (2072 Downloads) Changelog
BattCursor 1.0.5 (630 Downloads) Changelog
BattCursor 1.0.5 Binaries (525 Downloads) Changelog
Sacke wrote on 3/9/2010 11:05:20 PM:
Again...
Even the web installer complains about 64-bit.
sacke wrote on 3/9/2010 11:04:23 PM:
Addendum: Windows 7 64bit. Computer HP HDX18
Sacke wrote on 3/9/2010 11:03:29 PM:
Complains about that my computer is a 64-bit. Won't install.
Thomas Baumann wrote on 2/21/2010 7:16:51 AM:
@Nic: Backlight dimming does work on Windows 7 :) Try to get updated chipset drivers for your laptop. Some OEM Software may also cause this problem.
Nic wrote on 2/21/2010 6:34:54 AM:
Fantastic software, but 1 major problem with the new version. The backlight dimming function (which is critical to saving battery) does not function with Windows 7.
reddy wrote on 2/11/2010 4:49:38 PM:
i like it
Icesnake wrote on 2/10/2010 11:09:35 PM:
Linked from http://scifiandgadgets.com/2010/02/10/better-battery-management-for-windows-vista-and-7/
Thomas Baumann wrote on 2/10/2010 7:05:24 AM:
@Andrew: Another user already has reported this in our support forum. This problem will be fixed for the next version :)
Andrew wrote on 2/9/2010 12:35:38 AM:
The installer and configuration screens both fail to draw properly on a system with the DPI set to non-default (eg, 125%) it makes it unreadable.
Robert wrote on 2/7/2010 7:36:25 PM:
i'm very curious...I let you konw....
Goodbye Umbraco!
Sad to say, but a great improvement, the battcursor homepage does not use umbraco as cms anymore.
A bit sad news to umbraco, but I have to do this. So much things that went wrong after upgrading ...
Happy "Birthday", BattCursor!
Today is the big day :)
It is exactly 1 year ago since I have had the idea to display the remaining battery power in the cursor. A short time later it was done, the first version of BattCursor ...
~ 1000 ~
YAY, this is the first time a BattCursor version has exceeded 1000 downloads! :D
I want to say a few words because of this:
Thanks to Maximilian which uses this from the first alpha version. ...
