>>Hi everybody,
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>>I usually keep my laptop plugged in using regular power unit. Today I unplugged it for a short period of time and now it keeps telling me that my battery is running low and it needs re-charging. But why does it think that it needs to use battery?
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>>Is there something I need to adjust?
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>>I haven't re-started it for a long period of time, I usually just close it for the night and re-open the next day.
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>>Any ideas, advices?
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>>Thanks in advance.
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>Try to restart it.
>Better Shutdown and after few minutes start it.
>And if the Laptop is HP and you have Win7 on it, keep in mind that Windows 7 did not measure battery well on some HP models.

The laptop is Dell. I didn't want to re-start, because I have about 5 different apps running and also about 15 different tabs opened in Google Chrome.

If there is no better option I'll shutdown.