Vista low battery alarm

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You will need to configure select the critical battery alarm through sounds in control panel. Select 'Change system sounds', and you will find a scrollable list containing "Critical battery alarm'. May I suggest you Google something like 'Warning sounds' or 'Sound Effects', and see what you can find for free :smileywink:. Symptoms Consider the following scenario. When your computer's battery reaches low or critical levels, you only receive a pop-up balloon notification, and do not hear a sound file play.

You right-click on your desktop and click Personalize, then choose Sounds. Cause This behavior is by design. These options exist for third-party battery meter applications. I found this battery alarm that works real well. It's free, and uses very little for computer resources. Browse Community. Laptops General - Read Only. Saturday, October 20, PM. Here too,no sound on my New Toshiba-Vista laptop satellite a! Monday, October 22, PM. Regards Uwe. Monday, October 29, PM.

Same problem on HP Both low and critical battery alarms. Can we assume that this is a Vista-problem? And assume that it will be fixed in SP1? Friday, November 30, AM. Saturday, December 15, AM. Thank you. Thursday, January 31, AM. OR we can inquire on notebooks that have that built-in bios alarm setting. Thursday, January 31, PM. Tuesday, February 5, PM. I have a Toshiba Satellite US and the audible alarm won't work here either.

I already tried configuring it countless times, I even changed the. I hope SP1 will fix it. It is extremely annoying. Friday, February 8, PM. Hey guys - it's the same in all versions of Windows Go to your Control Panel and select Sounds, look for the event you want then select the sound you want to hear. Thursday, February 14, PM. Everybody already tried that. It does not work, obviously. When the battery reaches the chosen low level, Windows Vista just does not play the audible part of the alarm.

Friday, February 15, PM. So, does anyone know why this has not been fixed by Microsoft yet? Tuesday, March 18, PM.

I found the answer! These options exist for third-party battery meter applications. Such as??????? I'm still looking. No luck yet. Certainly nothing from MS. Found one forum that claimed it will be fixed with a Service Pack update. I'm not holding my breath. Thursday, March 20, PM. I am hoping that this will be fixed in the SP1 update This "by design" explanation is certainly VERY stupid.

Friday, March 21, PM.