Where's the option to maximize battery life?

I remember seeing an option about battery life but now I can't find it. The option was to let Vista manage how much to charge the battery to maximize the long term life of the battery. The option actually lowers the per charge life since I think the startegy is to not always let it charge completely. Anyways, I looked through power manager and vistas power plans and cant find that option. Someone know where it's hiding and if it's worth using?
thanks

Hi there:
Open Power Manager, select Advanced View, select Battery tab, click on Battery Maintenance. I have read on this forum that some folks have set their thresholds at start charge ~40%, end charge ~80%.
I just did a quick search and found this from march 09, search terms "battery charge thresholds" (one hit, 49% confidence), scroll to jonlumpkin's reply.
http://forums.lenovo.com/lnv/board/message?board.id=T400_series_ThinkPads&message.id=8742&query.id=1...
Hope this works.
Ulu
Thinkpad T400-2764CTO | Penryn T9400's 2.53GHz | 4 GB RAM | ATI HD3400 + Intel GM45 | 160GB 7k200 | 14.1" LED WXGA+ | Vista Ultimate SP1

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Open Power Manager, select Advanced View, select Battery tab, click on Battery Maintenance. I have read on this forum that some folks have set their thresholds at start charge ~40%, end charge ~80%.
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