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Add NOTE on How to get new(er) PowerBattery.dll file from https://github.com/sidevesh/LenovoToolkit?tab=readme-ov-file #4

Open porteusconf opened 1 month ago

porteusconf commented 1 month ago

Thanks for this service! It is working fine on a fleet of g700 2014-era lenovo laptops with the PowerBattery.dll 2022 file. (I hated having to install the horrible bloated vantage spyware just to limit charge level.)

Just a quick suggestion of few lines you may want to add your readme.md (something like all the following info):

In most cases, a good location to manually put the files is: "C:\Program Files\LenovoBatteryManagementSvc\LenovoBatteryManagement.exe"

NOTE: In case of problems, before creating a new issue, please try a newer version of PowerBattery.dll file as described below.

TL/DR: Install vantage, and you'll find PowerBattery.DLL file in SUB-folders under "C:\ProgramData\Lenovo\Vantage\Addins\IdeaNotebookAddin\" and copy that newer PowerBattery.dll to the same folder where LenovoBatteryManagement.exe is located (overwriting older file). You can then uninstall all vantage-related apps.

Details at https://github.com/sidevesh/LenovoToolkit?tab=readme-ov-file If the newer dll file does not fix things (like not working in win 11), then when you create issue, include info about the dll such as: PowerBattery-dll-info