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M$ app in Windows 7, wrongly pics up fading batteries, which are not actually faulty, there just naturally ageing it seems (as all batterys do). Apprantly it kicks in about where your battery is not holding 60% of charge as it calculates this based off the manufactors design sheet... prob here is we all know that not all batteries are made equal so some may fall short from new, which is what the problem is here.

The proper way :) :

"We recognize that this has the appearance of Windows 7 'causing' the change in performance, but in reality all Windows 7 did was report what was already the case."

So there you go anything that goes wrong from now on was allready broke before Windows touched it ;)

Orig. article : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/08/microsoft_on_windows_7_battery_complaints/

Some M$ forum dribble : http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itprohardware/thread/c6c043e6-eeb1-4e61-870d-896ca2f865d6