How to detect when laptop power cable has been disconnected?

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This should be trivial to implement using the SystemInformation.PowerStatus property. And even though that lives in Windows.Forms, it should be perfectly usable from a system service.

For a solution that also works on the Compact Framework, see HOWTO: Get the Device Power Status

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