I have a few year old HP Dv1000 laptop now running Windows 7. Everything is great apart from one thing.

The battery indicator has alays been way off the mark (even under XP). I think their may have been a Bios update but I decied against it.

Anyhow under XP got to 0% and carried on for maybe another2 hours.

Under Windows 7 it gets to 6% (I think) and goes to standby. I can then turn it back on and carry on up to another 2 hours depending how much I have used it on the mains and upset it.

Is there a way of stopping it going into Standby when it gets to 6%?

I have a few year old HP Dv1000 laptop now running Windows 7. Everything is great apart from one thing.

The battery indicator has alays been way off the mark (even under XP). I think their may have been a Bios update but I decied against it.

Anyhow under XP got to 0% and carried on for maybe another2 hours.

Under Windows 7 it gets to 6% (I think) and goes to standby. I can then turn it back on and carry on up to another 2 hours depending how much I have used it on the mains and upset it.

Is there a way of stopping it going into Standby when it gets to 6%?

If you go to control panel/power settings it should be buried in there somewhere.. i cant help as it doesnt show battery on my pc

go into advanced power settings and modify the selected plan, and you can set it to 0%.

Had a look and its at 5% but refuses to set any lower.

Click on "critical battery action" option, and you can set the option on battery to "Do Nothing" and it should continue running until the battery is dead, but you wont get any warning.

Don't have that option on battery only on mains. :(

Its there on win7 pro.

Control Panel > Power Options > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings

Scroll down list to Battery and make changes there.