Battery's discharge cycles monitoring
The advanced algorithm accurately records when a complete discharge cycle is performed.

When the configured number of discharge cycles is reached, a notification balloon pops up to remind that a full discharge is required.

Complete battery information
It calculates the statistical remaining time in laptops that don't support the battery time left information and only list the charge percentage.

Shows all the detailed information about the battery, such as wear level, capacities, consumption, manufacturer, etc.

Notification area information
In battery mode, the notification icon shows the remaining time and percentage of battery

Automatic power plans switching
Depending on the power source of the computer, BatteryCare can automatically select the power plan you prefer.

Control over Windows Aero and demanding Services
Automatically disable the graphics accelerated theme in Windows Vista and/or demanding services that degrade battery lifetime.
Once the laptop stops running on batteries, the theme is re-enabled and the stopped services are restored.

Auto-updates
No need to trouble in downloading new installers, when a new version is available, the program updates itself.

Lightweight in the system
Given the concern about the battery optimization, BatteryCare does not interfere with the system performance. It requires only a mere 0,1% of Processor and Memory resources.

New feature: Temperature readings now supported in Fahrenheit degrees.
New feature: New tray menu.

Help menu working and linked to the website FAQ.
Bug fix: In some cases, the statistical remaining time calculation option was activated automatically when running on battery.
Bug fix: An error could occur while trying to disable Windows Aero automatically.
Minor corrections and minor interface changes.

New languages: German, French, Spanish, Turkish and Latvian.
New feature: New and improved error report system.
Added support for redundat (backup) update server.
Bugfix: Increased the maximum allowed value for the manual discharge cycles adjustment.
Bugfix: When the user confirms a full discharge, all registered percentages until that moment are reset.
Bugfix: Fixed temperature readings for the Intel Atom CPU (commonly used in NetBooks) and every 45nm CPU (Penryn).
Minor performance optimizations and bugfixes.

New feature: Manual power plan change in the tray menu.
New feature: Launch the Windows Energy options in the tray menu.
New feature: User can hide the windows default energy icon.
New feature: Configurable low and critical battery level notifications.
Options panel rearranged.
Bugfix: Estimated time was reset to zero when the laptop was plugged in.
Bugfix: Updater was launched twice.

Quick fix: A crash occurred when setting the "hide energy icon" with UAC activated.

Quick fix: The current power plan in the tray menu was not refreshed if the plan changed outside the program./SPOILER]

New feature: Hard Drive temperature reading.
New feature: Quick Info popup, Aero style, replacing the default tooltip.
New feature: Access to power plans switching with a left click tray menu.
New Languages: Danish, Italian and Russian.
Improvement: Main window and popup are now placed according to taskbar orientation and size.
Improvement: Better statistical time calculation thanks to correct standby/hibernate detection.
Improvement: It now shows the battery manufacturer and model name.
Improvement on the update process, no need to download an aux file.
Bugfix: Installer stalled at "extracting main files" on accounts with special characters.
Minor bugfixes and UI improvements.

Improvement: Statistical remaining estimation is now relative to the percentage at which the computer goes to sleep mode.

Improvement: New backup system for the program data files which allow a recovery in case of corrupted information.

Bugfix: A crash could occur in Windows XP systems with custom power plans.

Several other bugfixes.