Battery level low, doesn't give a warning.

Hi,
When my battery is almost empty it doesn't give a warning. I have an HP G62 and windows 7. My laptop shut down (black screen). Before I always got an popup which says I should connect my laptop to power. When I restart my laptop I got a window where they asking me 'windows normal starting'. And i'm lost all my internet settings and thinks I saved..
Problems started since I changed my HD (because my HD crashed). I changed my HD from 52 00 rpm to 7200 rpm.
Can somebody help me thanks.
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Hi,
Please try:
(a) Click the arrow at the bottom right corner,
(b) Click Customize,
(c) Change Power to "Show icon and notifications"
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BH
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