Power Manager : Genuine Lenovo Battery Not Attached

I refuse to pay the bloated price Lenovo charge for their 'genuine' Lenovo battery and bought a long-life one for less than half the Lenovo price. However I keep getting that annoying message popping up and i bascially have to click the pop up to see a website to then shut it down. Invaiably the message will repeat several times and just , well , 'do my nut in'.
there is a similar thread in the T60 section but the fix there entails an XP element which i tried but it wont work in Vista..anyone any idea how to disable this dumb warning?
I'll take my chances if the battery goes boom....
Lenovo X200 Tablet / 350Gb HDD / 4GB RAM / Windows 7

Gkinghrn wrote:
..anyone any idea how to disable this dumb warning?
the only way to disable it is to uninstall the ThinkPad Power Manager software.
Gkinghrn wrote:
I'll take my chances if the battery goes boom....
if your battery does go boom then the cost savings won't seem so great.   almost every battery explosion i've seen (all of which were non-genuine batteries) completely destroyed the notebook.
lenovo batteries have monitoring/failsafe electronics built in.   third-party batteries do not have this.   third-party batteries also wear out much more quickly than a genuine as they use cheap cells.   unfortunately, there's no such thing as an inexpensive long-life battery.
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