How do I get battery information in windows?

Question

I have two laptops here. One is running Vista, the other Windows 7. I need to get the specifications on the batteries in both, how do I go about that?

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Answer 1

You could use WMI and the Win32_Battery class. It has a property called Chemistry that has this information.

UPDATE:

Actually, there is also Win32_PortableBattery, which would be more appropriate for a laptop battery. They both inherit from the CIM_Battery class.