Read_me_before_installing_Battery_Monitor.html / Copyright © Tek Design. All Rights reserved. Read me before installing Battery Monitor CONTENTS What's Battery Monitor? Notes on Starting Battery Monitor Installing Battery Monitor Uninstalling Battery Monitor Technical Support License Agreement     Distribution     Disclaimer of Warranty     Copyright Notice What's Battery Monitor? Battery Monitor is a compact battery meter for laptop computers. It statistically estimates and shows electric energy left over and necessary time to fill it up, and alerts you to energy shortage. It can also graphically display a change history of battery level. This application is recommended to those who keep the Windows' taskbar hidden and cannot always see its battery meter. Battery Monitor works on Windows XP/NT/2000/Vista/7/8/8.1/10 Notes on Starting Battery Monitor On Windows 7 and later, the icon of this program is typically not shown on the taskbar but in the panel where hidden system icons (indicators) are placed. Click on the up arrow on the right of the taskbar to open the panel, as pictured below, where you will find the icon of this program. You can drag it to the taskbar to make it always visible in the notification area (system tray). Installing Battery Monitor 1. Unzip the distributed file into an arbitrary folder. 2. Right-click on the icon of the executable file "Tbmonite.exe" and select "Create shortcut" to create a shortcut on the desktop. Double-click on the icon and confirm that the program normally runs. Refer to 4. below to show the help. 3. The program should work typically with no problem. In some Windows environments, Visual Basic (VB) runtime driver "msvbvm50.dll" has to be copied, if not exists and as an administrator when prompted by Windows, to the following folder:

Windows 7 and later	-----	C:\Windows\SysWOW64
Windows Vista and earlier	-----	C:\Windows\System32

The VB runtime driver is included in the distributed ZIP package. 4. As the program contains the help files created in the old format with the extension "HLP", Windows Help program should be installed. See "How to Run Help Files" in our website for further details. Trademark acknowledgments: Windows and Visual Basic are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Uninstalling Battery Monitor Remove the folder together with all the files where Battery Monitor was installed. Technical Support Requests for technical support on this software are accepted on the "Contact us" page in Tek Design's website. License Agreement You must accept the License Agreement to use this software. If you do not intend to honor this Agreement, you must remove this Software from your computer right now.

Distribution This Software is freeware. However, the Software remains the property of the Author. You may distribute or reproduce the Software freely for personal and non-commercial use only, provided you contact the Author by E-mail to get the Author's consent, preferably prior to, or even after, the distribution or the reproduction. All of the components of the Software should be distributed or reproduced in the original archive form and should not be modified in any way. Disclaimer of Warranty This Software is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. The Author disclaims all warranties, including without limitation any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. The entire risk arising out of the use or performance of the product and documentation remains with recipient. In no event shall the Author be liable for any consequential, incidental, direct, indirect, special, punitive, or other damages whatsoever (including, without limitation, damages for loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of business information, or other pecuniary loss) arising out of this Agreement or the use of or inability to use the product, even if the Author has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Further, the Author is not forced to alter the Software nor fix any bugs in any case except of the Author's own accord. Copyright Notice None is allowed to attempt to reverse engineer, disassemble or decompile this Software. All parts of this Software are copyright protected. Copyright © Tek Design. All Rights reserved.