Laptop Battery - Controlling the Re-Charge Threshold

[Guest JCW2]

IBM Thinkpads offer a cool tool in their proprietary "Battery Maximizer" software under "Battery Maintenance" that allows you to set the charge level at which a re-charge is triggered. This is supposed to maximize battery lifetime by reducing unnecessary re-charge cycles on a computer that remains plugged in most of the time.

But I don't have this Thinkpad software. Now that I've found some related and equally cool tools that are native to XP SP3 itself (e.g., PowerCfg to manually set the processor throttle for lower power consumption, and Wembtest to determine both the maximum AND the CURRENT processor clock rates), I'm wondering:

 

Does XP offer any such control over the recharge cycle as that described above?

 

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