I don't know about others' experiences, but I find the hierarchy of available methods/properties/events exposed by the OS through. Thanks for posting the code which shows how to register for the. Of course, if your UPS-protected system is off-network, none of this info is available. I'm fairly impressed by its functionality. The remote console can manage multiple UPSes, and allows you to determine battery health, state of charge, percent of rated load, etc., plus gives you 24 hours' graph of incoming line voltage. It was pretty straightforward to install its components. The APC PowerChute s/w seems to work OK for me so far. But after restoring the MS driver, everything works, including APC's stuff. I'm fully in agreement with you that the user app should get its info from the OS, and not be dependent on a hardware manufacturer. Why APC's installer chooses to disable the generic Windows functionality is a mystery to me. I built a quick test app to run on the target computer, which had XP SP2 but was (initially) missing. NET 2.0 was my own "doh!" moment I did see it in your original code posting as a requirement, and I did have it installed on my development machine.
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