Battery reset gauge - lower capacity

Hallo,
I have question about Battery gauge reset feature.
Recently my notebook's full charge capacity drops to 80% (57Wh design capacity about 45Wh real capacity). The Power manager announce me that it is right time to perform battery gauge reset. I said ok, I will do it over night. Before I started reset I closed all applications and give it a try. In the morning I found, that the reset doesn't help at all and even drops to 38Wh (68%). To be honest I haven't been just disapointed I was angry. I used Lenovo feature to lower quality of my HW? Ok, maybe I went wrong.. I said to me. I will try it again. I restarted computer, have the background services as clean as possible and try it again. Now I have only 65% of designed capacity and wondering if there is (hopefuly) some way to get more energy to my battery. Is it possible?
My configuration.
Lenovo ThinkPad T400 - 6 battery cell (1 year old)
Windows 7 (64b)
PowerManager 3.05
Thanks for any advice or explanation.

Hi Annnastasia!
The default behavior is that the battery starts charging when it drops below 96%.
You can see this if you go to Battery Maintenance in the Power Manager.
Your T400 is new, and you shouldn't need to run a battery gauge reset.
I don't work for Lenovo. I'm a crazy volunteer!

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