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Re: Is there any harm of installing Batti or similar battery indicators ?

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Originally Posted by Keyone View Post
Don't use vistahidebattery as said above. Batti takes a lot of CPU resources (~10-20%) every second or so. If you're charging, it uses about 50-60%, and if you use the always-on-top feature, the 10-20% jumps to a constant 30-40% CPU usage. It's a hog for something that should be so simple.

I now use dci battery (mentioned just above too) and it uses very very little resources, even while always-on-top (maybe <5% every 10 second pole - honestly why do you need to pole every 1-2 seconds?).
And imho it should poll no more often than once a minute... maybe even set it to 5 minutes with the feature to check when you first turn your TP on.

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