Re: Detecting Battery Mode programatically

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From: Scott Fenstermacher (sfenstermacher_at_lrs.com)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:51:51 -0600

Actually, IIRC, Service Pack 2 already has code to prevent installing if the
system is running on battery power... Try it. 

-- 
Scott Fenstermacher
Network Engineer
Levi, Ray and Shoup, INC
"Motor Wu" <motorwu@kimo.com> wrote in message 
news:mea8t0hi663pjug99dal53t7761vjgqr6k@4ax.com...
> Is there a way to detect weather my laptop is using the battery or
> power-cable programatically in Windows Script? I have an IBM ThinkPad
> A30 with Windows 2000 SP3 with a background service that takes up a
> large processing power when activated. If possible, I'd like to
> shut-down this service automatically whenever I un-plug the laptop,
> then start it back up again when I plug it back in.
>
> I have search the forum for solution and try to use WMI win32_battery
> to get information on my Windows XP Pro, but it seems not work, for
> the properitiers of "BatteryStatus", it just return "1 - Other" when
> my notebook is using battery and return "2 - unknow" when I attach
> power cable to my notebook, but it should return "charging" or "using
> battery".
>
> Why I want to get information of power status ? I want to
> automatically install windows xp sp2 patch for all my office desktop
> and notebook sliently , but it seems not work on notebook when it's
> using battery power.
>
> Is somebody can help me ? Thanks in advance.
>
> Motor.

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