I chose this gadget as it was the best looking meter by far, unfortunatley occasionally stops the Vista Sidebar working and I am doubtful that the performance of a month old battery can only be at 60% as this meter suggested. I would welcome an updated battery gadget as this definately has potential.

Having to install this app, which requires Admin rights, was disappointing. After install it will occassionally hang the sidebar. I uninstalled within just 1 days use...

ok i would not download this because yea its extra prosess u need to install it it not one of those run apps

I FOGOT TO SAY TALKING OF THE SKINS ...I HATE GREEN LOL .. i did write sumthng eles dont see it on here tho ..just said that i downloaded this gadet bout 1/2 hr ago it seems ok on my laptop i like it ..but if it ad skins would be much better..has 4 those of you having to keep staring ur sidbar i have mine on desktop so wen i start up my laptop i just click on the icom and its all there,saves having to keep going into settings or where ever..apart from the skins thing this gadget is graet ..all the best to ya's

I found out that in the task manager, sidebar.exe is running twice because of this gadget. Other than that it looks quite nice.

Vista Ult x64, HP DV9000 laptop. Says "Object Doesn't Support this Property or Method" then sits indefinitely with a wait cursor.

Despite what other reviewers have said, I think this is the best battery sidebar gadget available. It has a sleek look and works fine for me even with the round prongs on the plug LOL. As for complaints about it warning that your battery needs replacement, it's probably because the manufacturer programmed the battery's Design Capacity too high. In my HP notebook, all the batteries are programmed with a Design Capacity of 88.8Wh. The problem is that HP only supplies batteries with a Full Charge Capacity of 63Wh and 73Wh. So once the battery drops below 53.3Wh, the warning comes on. To change it, simply change the Replace Battery Point percentage in the Battery section under Power Options. If you want to see what your battey's Design Capacity and Full Charge Capacity are you'll need a program that can read it's SMBus data. I would like to see a time remaining display added to it though, but it may not be possible given the Sidebar Gadget constraints.

Same problem as everyone else. Makes my side bar flicker. Im sure if i leave it running i'll end up having my side bar crash also

downloads but does NOT install when you "open" it. if you try to save it, then it shows as downloading but nothing happens/no file appears

Hi! I read on many sites that link to this gadget that it has many skins, but I can't change them, because no option to configure the gadget is available. Any idea?Thanks