Program start on critical battery alert

Hey,
in windows XP i had the possibility to start a program once the battery of my notebook reached the 0%mark (or in other words I could choose to start an application as an action on the "critical battery alert".) This feature was removed in Windows Vista :(
Will it be available in Windows 7 again? Is there anything I can do to catch this event with the task-scheduler? I searched the forum, no topics about it.
I did a google research - many people would like this feature.
I searched for the event-id of the critical battery alert in the event-log but didn't find anything.
has anyone any more information? Why has this feature been removed? How can i work around it without starting my application manually or leaving it running the whole time?
thanks,
alex

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