I’ve mentioned one method of always showing a battery meter on the Windows Mobile taskbar, but I’ve found a better way of achieving this.

There is a piece of free software called BattClock, which you can get here, that allows you to always show not only a percentage battery meter in your taskbar all of the time, but you can also show your choice of a clock, the date or the amount/percentage of free memory in addition to this. My taskbar now shows the time, date and battery meter as you can see below:

One thing that I did have to do was slightly increase the width of what BattClock displays, as a couple of pixels from the Windows Mobile standard clock were visible poking out from the right of the BattClock information. This is really easy to achieve as the program has a configuration application (the icon in the Programs folder called battconfig) which allows you to change not only the size, location and colours its output, but also what information it does display.

I am very pleased with this bit of software. When I next get some cash I will certainly be donating some to the author.