Power Countdown - Are you tired of having your Pocket PC accidentally turn on in your pocket and later find the battery has been drained? Well Power Countdown will solve this little nuisance.
Power Countdown is a software based power off with a 5 second timer. Enabling Power Countdown will place an icon in the system tray. Pressing this icon, marked with will shut off the system immediately. Powering back on after a power off in this fashion will caues a 5 second timer to countdown to 0. The timer will display in the system tray, ,,,,. If the icon is pressed within the 5 seconds, the icon is redisplayed and the countdown is canceled. If nothing is pressed, power will be shut off. If the counting down icon is double tapped it will redisplay the dialog from whick Power Countdown can be exited.
Power Countdown is a effective way of preserving what little batter life pocket PCs have. Power Countdown will save power that is lost by accidental power ups. Download it free of charge below.
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Supported operating systems:
Pocket PC 2002, Windows Mobile 2003, Windows Mobile 5.0
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