Power Center 1.00
by Tien-Hao Lan

IMPORTANT: YOU STILL NEED TO DOWNLOAD MICROSOFT VISUAL BASIC 5.0 SP3 RUNTIME LIBRARY IN ORDER TO RUN THIS PROGRAM. TO GET MORE INFORMATION ON THIS, PLEASE VISIT MY WEB SITE AT http://members.xoom.com/TimothyBug/msvb.htm. TO DOWNLOAD THE RUNTIME DIRECTLY, PLEASE GOTO ftp://ftp.zdnet.com/pub/private/sWlIB/computer_programming/libraries_custom_controls/vb5runol.zip. I'M VERY SORRY FOR THE INCONVIENCE.

I.    Intro
II.   System Requirement
III.  Installation/Uninstallation
IV.   Using Power Center
V.    Registration
VI.   Program History
VII.  Contact the Author
App.A Information Regarding Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Runtime SP3

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I. Intro

Tired of those battery management programs that only tell you the percentage of the battery? Power Center is a useful program to help you manage your laptop computer battery. Most of the similar programs only display the percentage of the power left in the battery. One of the best parts of the Power Center is the it can estimate the amount of time the battery can hold up by learning by itself. It recalibrate its estimation each time the battery lever drops and keeps a record on it. Therefore, the estimation gets more and more accurate everytime. Power Center provides every single bit of information you need regarding your battery. With the help of the Control Center, you can set the Power Center to inform you whenever the battery is lower than a specific percentage, at a specific percentage, when the AC power goes on, or when the AC power goes off. You can set it to be always on top of every other programs or to hide all the buttons to conserve previous screen space.

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II. System Requirement

  Windows 95/98/NT required
  Pentium or above suggested
  Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Runtime Library SP3 (See App. A)

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III. Installation

To install, simply unzip pwrctr01.zip and run the setup.exe enclosed. Setup will install powercrt.exe to the directory you specified (default is C:\Program Files\Power Center), and will create an icon for the Power Center

To uninstall, please goto "Add/Remove Programs" in the Control Panel. Find "Power Center" in the list and double-click on it. The uninstall program will start to uninstall Power Center. Note that Microsoft Visual Basic Runtime will NOT be removed.

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IV. Using Power Center

GENERAL
The first time you start the program, you see a panel showing the current battery status with three buttons: Control Center, Show Status Only, and Register. The Control Center button leads you to the setup of the informing function. If you click Show Status Only, all the buttons are hided. If you want the buttons to appear again, you have to right-click on the icon in the system tray and deselect Show Status Only.

All the commands are available by right-clicking the icon in the system tray. The Always On Top option allows you to make the Power Center the topmost windows. The Online Manual option leads you online to my homepage with the most oftenly updated user's manual.

For more oftenly updated instruction, please visit my homepage at http://members.xoom.com/TimothyBug; or you can refer to the online manual button in the About menu.

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V. Registration

IF YOU DECIDE NOT TO REGISTER AFTER USING FOR 30 DAYS, YOU MUST UNINSTALL MILLENNIUM PROGRAM AND ITS COMPONENTS FROM YOUR HARD DRIVE, AND YOU MAY NOT REINSTALL OR USE THE PROGRAM IN ANY FORM.

Thank you for considering to register for your very own Power Center. You don't get any more special features if you register, but you may NOT continue to use this program after 30 days starting from the day you first installed it. Consider the super-low registration fee, why not semd the check today?

PLEASE NOTE THAT IF YOU HAVE PREVIOUSLY REGISTERED THIS PROGRAM, IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO REGISTER IT AGAIN. IN FACT, ONCE THE NEWER VERSION IS INSTALL, THE PROGRAM IS AUTOMATICALLY MARKED REGISTERED.

To register, please send a US$5.00 check payable to Tien-Hao Lan to:

  Tien-Hao Lan
  P.O. Box 507192
  San Diego, CA92150-7192

with your E-mail address and desired registration name, which will be shown in the "Registered to" box. I will send you the registration code as soon as possible.

For other special discount, please contact me at timmy@hyson.ucsd.edu.

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VI. Program History

VRESION 1.0
The very first version of Power Center.

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VII. Contact the Author

In occasion you encouter problems regarding the Power Center, or you simply have an opinion, please contact the author as soon as you can.

  E-mail: timmy@hyson.ucsd.edu
  Postal Mail: Tien-Hao Lan. P.O. Box 507192. San Diego, CA 92150-7192
  Homepage: http://members.xoom.com/TimothyBug

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App. A Information Regarding Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Runtime SP3

I write my programs in Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 with Service Pack 3. This requires that you have the runtime library installed to your system, and it must be the exact same version.

You may download the runtime setup from ftp://ftp.zdnet.com/pub/private/sWlIB/computer_programming/libraries_custom_controls/vb5runol.zip.

For more information, please visit my web site at http://members.xoom.com/TimothyBug/msvb.htm
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Thank you VERY MUCH for choosing this program.