HP laptop Dead battery?
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silverfoxcc

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175 months

Friday 24th July 2020
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Had it for 3.5 years. 99% of the time run it on mains, and only notice the battery runs out when the power mains connector gets jogged out the socket

Now When the mains plug drops out. it goes dead

The system tells me that the battery has 92% and the little battery icon sows nearly full, i also noticed it doing the charge symbol

I have tried to check the connections on the battery with a tester to see if it was a false reading, but the contacts cannot be rached and i dont think folding bacofoil into the slots helped

Could it need a new batt

Couple of supplementries

The speaker say working 100% but very low volume
And Win 10 has decided to move the 'index' that used to be on the LHS of the screen and you scrolled down to whatever app you wanted, and it is now filling up the whole scree with each app shown
Any way of getting it back to the original?

Thoughts suggestions welcomed

TIA