No Battery Alarm Sound on Vista - it's by design

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:48:25 +0000

Early this year I bought a new laptop for my wife with Windows Vista Home Premium pre-installed, before she used a notebook with Windows XP. Since she is using that new notebook, she is regularly complaining about Windows Vista just shutting down. Of course we could argue that people should read the messages they get such as the one below:

If Windows Vista would play a sound, people would probably pay more attention to it, but according to a Microsoft Knowledge base article KB950161. low and critical battery alarms do not sound on Windows Vista.

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No Battery Alarm Sound on Vista - it's by design