What's new in Battery Life Maximizer 3.5.2.1
Sep 19, 2017
- Deprecated Chrome Extension for Video Acceleration
New in Battery Life Maximizer 3.5.1 (Feb 26, 2017)
- Memory foot print reduction
- Program startup speed up
- Improved stability on slow computers
New in Battery Life Maximizer 3.5.0 (Feb 9, 2017)
- Battery guage calibration assistance
New in Battery Life Maximizer 3.4.0.1 (Nov 16, 2016)
- Video decode hardware acceleration status may not be detected on Windows 10 systems.
- Video window brightness adjustment may not work properly on clean installed Windows 10 systems.
New in Battery Life Maximizer 3.3.8.1 (Aug 18, 2016)
- Internet Explorer and Edge Browser warns Battery Life Maximizer installer's signature is corrupted or invalid.
New in Battery Life Maximizer 3.3.7 (Aug 18, 2016)
- Dialog boxes may not open on Windows 10 Version 1607 (Anniversary Update)
New in Battery Life Maximizer 3.2.5 (Aug 18, 2016)
- Improved stability of the program on systems with limited disk space
- Added Windows 10 support
New in Battery Life Maximizer 3.2.2.1 (Jul 15, 2015)
- Improved stability of the program on systems with limited disk space
- Added Windows 10 support
New in Battery Life Maximizer 3.1.0 (May 13, 2015)
- New:
- Web browser extension for Google Chrome: Reduces power consumption during YouTube video playback
New in Battery Life Maximizer 3.0.5 (May 13, 2015)
- Bug Fix:
- User Interface program may crash on Connected Standby enabled systems
New in Battery Life Maximizer 3.0.3 (May 13, 2015)
- Bug Fix / minor improvements:
- Improved error handling during uninstall
- User Interface program's resource usage reduction
- Battery Usage History graph may be corrupted after resuming from sleep state
- Some of the power saving actions were not valid for Windows 8
New in Battery Life Maximizer 3.0.2 (May 13, 2015)
- Bug Fix / minor improvements:
- Installer size reduction (6.8MB -> 4.9MB)
- Improved error handling during Install/Uninstall
New in Battery Life Maximizer 3.0.1 (May 13, 2015)
- Bug Fix:
- Setup program may fail on Windows XP systems.
- Detailed battery information may not be shown in Tools page on Hewlett Packard systems.
- Program may crash when the entire package is uninstalled.
New in Battery Life Maximizer 3.0.0 (May 13, 2015)
- New:
- New tools page shows detailed information about the battery and video decode hardware acceleration.
- New battery usage history page shows the data graphically.
- New power saving program detection.
New in Battery Life Maximizer 2.3.9 (May 13, 2015)
- Bug Fix:
- User interface program (BlmUI.exe) may crash when it terminates.
New in Battery Life Maximizer 2.3.8.1 (Jul 26, 2014)
- Fixed following problem:
- User interface program (BlmUI.exe) may crash when it is manually terminated.
New in Battery Life Maximizer 2.3.6.1 (Jul 26, 2014)
- Add feedback buttons to the user inteface
New in Battery Life Maximizer 2.3.5.1 (May 29, 2014)
- New:
- Expanded battery life optimized driver installation support for the following laptops:
- Toshiba laptops sold in the US market. (Models sold in other area may not be covered.)
- Hewlett-Packard consumer laptops.
- Bug Fix:
- Service program may crash when a program with very long image path is ran.
- Service program crashes on a system with specific services installed.
- The graph in the summary page become inactive after restarting computer.
New in Battery Life Maximizer 2.3.0.1 (May 29, 2014)
- Battery life optimized driver installation support.
New in Battery Life Maximizer 2.2.2.1 (Jan 28, 2014)
- Bug Fix:
- Timer tick problem may not be properly detected for some application programs.
New in Battery Life Maximizer 2.2.1.1 (Jan 13, 2014)
- Summary page may not be updated properly
- CPU usage % numbers in the Program Activity page can be inaccurate (lower than actual numbers).
New in Battery Life Maximizer 2.2.0.1 (Dec 17, 2013)
- New:
- High DPI display support
- User interface improvements
- Bug Fix:
- Average power numbers in the battery usage history page may not be accurate
- User interface application may fail to start if multiple instances are started simultaneously
New in Battery Life Maximizer 2.1.7.1 (Dec 4, 2013)
- Fixed:
- Power number in the Summary page and Battery Usage page may not be accurate
New in Battery Life Maximizer 2.1.5.1 (Nov 23, 2013)
- Fixed following problems:
- Installation failure on systems with specific registry settings
- Application may crash at system startup
New in Battery Life Maximizer 2.1.3.1 (Nov 9, 2013)
- Fixed folloing problem:
- User interface application may crash if user logs in soon after OS boot
New in Battery Life Maximizer 2.1.1.1 (Nov 2, 2013)
- Windows 8.1 support
- Improved power consumption models for Atom and AMD CPU based platforms
- Minor bug fixes
New in Battery Life Maximizer 2.1.0.1 (Oct 14, 2013)
- New:
- Windows 8.1 support
- Improvements:
- Power model improvements for Atom and AMD CPU based systems
- BugFix:
- User interface application opens with very small window size
- User interface application crashs with specific keyboard combinations
- Option settings are note saved in some cases
New in Battery Life Maximizer 2.0.4.1 (Oct 4, 2013)
- Redesigned user interface
- Enhanced power saving problem detection capability.
New in Battery Life Maximizer 2.0.2 (Oct 4, 2013)
- Redesigned Summary page – Easier to understand current status and available options
- Redesigned Program Activity Details dialog box – More information about the program and provide actions to manage them
- New Options and Settings page – More control over program behavior
- Program Activity page – Service programs are listed with its service name
- And many more improvements and bug fixes.
New in Battery Life Maximizer 1.1.1 (Oct 4, 2013)
- Fixed WiFi auto-power off problem with 3rd party VPN software (e.g. Cisco AnyConnect)
New in Battery Life Maximizer 1.1.0 (Oct 4, 2013)
- Windows 8 Support:
- Now Windows 8 (32 and 64bit editions) is added to the supported OS list.
- Laptops are usually well configured by the PC vendors when it is shipped. But, when users make changes to the systems (such as installing new software or adding new hardware), battery life gragually declines. Although Windows 8 itself is a well power managed OS, upgrading OS is another challenge for the battery life. Battery Life Maximizer will help you to make sure that everything is well power managed under the new OS environment.
- New Power Saving — Video Window Brightness Adjustment:
- Power saving by making video window looks brighter is added. With this feature, you can watch video with lower LCD backlight brightness and it will save power.
- User Interface Improvement:
- Most power saving actions are now automatically (and quietly) enabled by default so that you will be able to get more power saving without being distructed by notification messages. If you don’t want powre saving options to be enabled automatically, please open “Options” page and disable “Automatically apply powre saving action when new problem is identified” checkbox.
New in Battery Life Maximizer 1.0.1 (Oct 4, 2013)
- Fixed incorrect trial period expiration
New in Battery Life Maximizer 1.1.0.1 (Nov 14, 2012)
- Windows 8 (32/64bit) support
- More power saving
- User interface improvement