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i want to be a good developer citizen, pay my taxes , and disable things if we're running over Remote Desktop, or running on battery. If we're running over remote desktop (or equivalently in a Terminal server session), we must disable animations and double-buffering. You can check this with: /// <summary> /// Indicates if we're running in a remote desktop session. /// If we are, then you MUST disable animations and double buffering i.e. Pay your taxes! /// /// </summary> /// <returns></returns> public static Boolean IsRemoteSession { //This is just a friendly wrapper around the built-in way get { return System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation.TerminalServerSession; } } Now i need to find out if the user is running on battery power. If they are, i don't want to blow through their battery. i want to do things such as disable animations disable background spell-checking disable background printing turn off gradients use graphics.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.HighSpeed; use graphics.InterpolationMode = InterpolationMode.Low; use graphics.CompositingQuality = CompositingQuality.HighSpeed; minimize hard drive access - to avoid spin up minimize network access - to save WiFi power Is there a managed way to see if the machine is currently running on battery? Bonus Reading How do you convince developers to pay their "taxes"? ( archive.is ) <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/01/03/508694.aspx" rel="no

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