annoying mouse battery warning

Do you guys know what I'm talking about? When your computer warns you that you have a low battery. Does anyone know how to turn off the warning?

 

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Install a new battery? :shrug: Is this a trick question?

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Not sure about Mouse battery, obviously on laptops you get the power indicator pop up by default, there is away to turn it off from showing or at the very least hiding it.

You can usually find the settings either in the Power Options Settings under the Advanced tab, untick "Always show on desktop taskbar". Otherwise you can right-click the Taskbar, select Properties, and click the "Customize" button. That will allow you to pick the behaviour of your icons.

 

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i'm not sure about a mouse battery either.
science man is apparently using a wireless optical mouse. how his computer is able to determine the status of the mouse battery is a mystery.
what OS are you using science man?

 

But the battery itself isn't dead yet. Yeah changing it is what I've been doing but I feel like I wasting the battery a little bit because it's not completely dead.

No the power options just deal with when the monitor should turn off and the computer should go to sleep. This isn't like the taskbar pop-up that you get a laptop battery. I run a desktop.
This is an actual pop-up that pops-up in the middle of the screen. It has a remind me later checkbox but even when I don't check it it still reminds me.

Vista Home Premium

 

http://support.microsoft.com/search...1033comm=1&ast=25&ast=28&ast=30&ast=31&res=10

 

Are you certain that the power of the battery is full and not drained down? You'll need a battery tester to know for certain how strong or weak your batteries are. I've also had problems when batteries just run low of their charge and cause problems as well. Usually just replacing them with a fully charged one will do the trick.

 

Yes I'm sure because I'm able to get at least another couple of days out of the battery.

 

Buy a wired mouse?

 

It's likely a portion of the actual driver for the mouse, check the mouse settings to see if that has anything, otherwise there isn't much I can suggest.

 

Not in the long term. Your battery is presently set at optimal life span. My battery shuts off at 80% depletion. If you don't care about being nice to your battery, you can (give make/op system) change the settings (control panel) to allow for a complete drain of the battery, before it shuts down. But I repeat...it is wearing on the battery to do so.

 

I saw where I could see the mouse driver but there's nothing I can do with the driver except update it.

Yes I do want to but where do I go in the control panel to tell the OS to do so?

 

i don't think it would hurt to update the driver although it probably wouldn't help.
my opinion is that the computer doesn't know the status of the battery directly. in other words you tell the computer when you replace the battery and by keeping track of your activity it can tell when the battery should be low.
this would explain why you have a few days of power after the warning.
i would advise against turning off the warning because you could easily find yourself in the middle of something important with a dead mouse on your hands.

edit:
here are more results for you from the link i gave earlier but with different search criteria
http://support.microsoft.com/search...1033comm=1&ast=25&ast=28&ast=30&ast=31&res=10

 

I get a similar, yet apparently less troublesome message, in OS X. And yes after first notification of a low battery I also can do a significant amount of work. How much/long is at least in part a function of actual use it seems.

As mentioned earlier by someone else, the notice probably appears at about 80% discharge. Discharging most rechargeable batteries completely before recharging will diminish their over all life expectancy.

The Apple iPad comes with instructions to discharge the battery and then fully recharge at least once a month. 80% discharge is where the low battery notice starts. That's a Lithium polymer battery. The mouse battery for my desktop is NIMH. I am not sure of what differences in use and charging may differently affect the two types.

 

Sorry, I was having trouble following:
If the problem is wireless mouse shutting down, and it is controlled through a wireless keyboard, then it is in the keyboard settings in control panel you want to adjust.

 

No, I can assure you that it didn't learn when to pop that message up. It must have been programmed by the writers of the OS as (hopefully) just a setting to pop-up when there's 80% or something % discharge.

I don't use rechargeable batteries for it. They're the old fashion throw out kind.

No, the mouse is wirelessly connected to a USB receiver that in the back of the computer.

 

okay, since there is no sign of the receiver in control panel, the receiver is perhaps recognized as a separate Drive (E

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) in "My Computer" or in "Computer".
Right click on the receiver drive.
Click on Properties.

Alternately, The options file for such an adjustment might be hiding in a "Program File" under the company name or brand name of the receiver.

Some of these units have online instruction manuals, but you will need to find a tag on the receiver unit--you will need the brand name and model #. Logitech is a brand name that comes to mind.

 

Then use rechargeable batteries.

 

rechargeable batteries are usually about 0.3 volts lower in voltage than the throw away kind. this can lead to problems if more than one battery is used.
example:
2 aaa throw away batteries will give 3 volts. 2 rechargeables will give 2.4 volts.
if the "cutoff" for the device is 2 volts then it's easy to see how the problem arises. the situation gets worse the more batteries you need to where you will need an extra battery to make up the difference.
4 aaa throw aways = 5 rechargeables.

 

You mean the properties of the factory image drive? If so, which tab should I go to then?