low battery alarm

Hi

we just got a Toshiba laptop which does not sound an alarm when the battery
is low. It only notifies with a pop up. I need to use the alarm function and
it seems that this particular model does not have this function.

Can you guys point me to a freeware that does such a thing. I was looking at
scripting or coding (writing a program to do so and set it up as a service
or something like that). If it can be done, appreciate if you guys could
give me a few pointers.

Many thanks in advance
Richard

Go into control panel.
Select Sound.
Select Sounds.
Select Critical Battery Alarm.
The rest is straight forward.


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Richard,

You may find that it is sounding an alarm, the standard is innocuous and
easily overlooked.

Check
Sound
Sounds
Windows/Low Battery Alarm, you could set it to something that cannot be
ignored.

Also check in
Power Options
Change Plan Settings
Change Advanced Power settings
Battery area / Low battery notification

to make sure it is turned on there.

Michael
Vista Home Premium

"richard" <richardbee@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> we just got a Toshiba laptop which does not sound an alarm when the
> battery is low. It only notifies with a pop up. I need to use the alarm
> function and it seems that this particular model does not have this
> function.
>
> Can you guys point me to a freeware that does such a thing. I was looking
> at scripting or coding (writing a program to do so and set it up as a
> service or something like that). If it can be done, appreciate if you guys
> could give me a few pointers.
>
> Many thanks in advance
> Richard
>

Hi Michael and Roy

Thanks for your reply. I have set all the confugurations but still no sound.
I even sent it to Toshiba. They are the ones who told me that this particular
model does not sound an alarm.

Richard

"Michael Walraven" wrote:

> Richard,
>
> You may find that it is sounding an alarm, the standard is innocuous and
> easily overlooked.
>
> Check
> Sound
> Sounds
> Windows/Low Battery Alarm, you could set it to something that cannot be
> ignored.
>
> Also check in
> Power Options
> Change Plan Settings
> Change Advanced Power settings
> Battery area / Low battery notification
>
> to make sure it is turned on there.
>
> Michael
> Vista Home Premium
>
> "richard" <richardbee@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:ev#VLYbKIHA.4272@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> > Hi
> >
> > we just got a Toshiba laptop which does not sound an alarm when the
> > battery is low. It only notifies with a pop up. I need to use the alarm
> > function and it seems that this particular model does not have this
> > function.
> >
> > Can you guys point me to a freeware that does such a thing. I was looking
> > at scripting or coding (writing a program to do so and set it up as a
> > service or something like that). If it can be done, appreciate if you guys
> > could give me a few pointers.
> >
> > Many thanks in advance
> > Richard
> >
>