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    DELL CP Battery charging

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by permka, Feb 15, 2009.

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    permka Notebook Consultant

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    Hi all,

    In DELL's CP Power Manager there is an option to Disable Charging the battery. The description is the following:

    "will stop your battery from charging until you dosconnect A/C or hibernate the computer"

    Well, to be honest this line is a bit... cryptic to me. I havent been able to find any info about it so I would like to ask if anyone knows something about it and if activating this thing will help the battery survive a bit more.

    Tnx!
     
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    OK, I have found a bit more info about it. It actually stops the battery from getting charged when the laptop is in A/C. So the question becomes the followig, will enabling it help the battery last longer?
     
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