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Laptop battery gauge icons

Refer to the attached 2 screens:

a) initially the big icon on the left shows much more battery power left compared
    to the small icon on the right & it prompted me whether I wish to reset the
    battery gauge which I clicked

b) then the 2nd attached screen surfaced

How can I make the icons work as what it used to be (previously both icons show
the same amount of power left) & the right icon doesn't show the 2 arrows.  The
right icon has been showing as such for the last 3 hours
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Is it ThinkPad X61 or X201?

Are you using  3rd party battery?

Are you running Win xp?

It seems to me that there is a conflict between the Thinkpad power management and the Windows power management.

The solution is to remove  thinkpad power management utility.

Source: http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1149369
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It is X61 on Win XP n the battery is abt four yrs old.  Was last working fine abt 36 hrs ago.   I let the batterry drained completely n power it again (while still inserted inX61) n it is now ok
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You need to get the battery changed i think that is the whats causing it ..
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