4 Ways to Overcome the Red Cross on the Windows 7 Battery
Have you ever experienced where the battery icon on your favorite laptop suddenly appears a red cross with the notification “Consider Replacing your battery”?
Actually, the function of the notification is to remind you that the laptop battery is no longer normal and needs to be replaced. But sometimes the notification is not always correct. Some laptops, Windows 7 has detected it wrongly so that it also appears notification consider Replacing your battery this. Even though the condition of the laptop battery is not damaged and is still normal.
So before solving problems like this, you have to make sure first whether the battery is still normal and doesn’t need to be replaced. Dafunda Tekno recommends charging the battery until it’s full, then unplugging it, using it as usual. If the battery runs out in less than 30-40 minutes, it means that the battery is no longer normal and needs to be replaced with a new battery.
On the other hand, if your battery is normal and the red cross still appears, you can follow the method to remove the cross in the battery notification below.
How to Remove the Cross in Windows 7 Battery
First Update Windows 7
The first thing you need to do is update your Windows 7 first. Maybe there is a bug that displays a cross notification on Windows 7 battery.
Install Service Pack 1 (SP1)
In Windows 7 SP1 there is a menu available to turn off this battery warning notification. All you have to do is click on the battery icon and then uncheck “Warn me if my battery may need replacement”. Then the cross on the battery will disappear and won’t bother you anymore.
Rely on Safe Mode
This method has also been successfully tried by some who are having battery cross marks problem in Windows. You can also try it through the steps Dafunda Tekno provides below.
- Charge the battery to full (100%) then turn off your laptop without unplugging the charger.
- Restart the laptop then press F8 several times until the page appears Advanced Boot Options. Then select Safe mode.
- If you have entered the Safe Mode page, now unplug the charger that is installed.
- Let the laptop turn on until it turns itself off because the battery is completely exhausted. Do not operate the laptop when it is on.
- If it’s dead, then plug the laptop charger back in and then turn on the laptop as usual.
This method usually succeeds in making Windows 7 recognize the actual condition of the laptop battery.
Change Battery Display Normally with BatteryBar
If you have done all of the above methods and they don’t work, then you can outsmart by replacing the default battery notification icon in Windows 7 with alternative software such as BatteryBar Basic for free.
How to Use BatteryBar Basic on Windows
- Download app Battery Basic and Install
- Right click on the system tray
- Select Toolbar
- Then Enable BatteryBar
That’s how to overcome the cross on the battery in Windows 7 and another alternative way not to bring up the “Consider Replacing your battery” notification problem and the annoying red cross.
