What happened to my battery indicator?

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notachance

Vista Home Premium, Dell laptop

Booted this morning, and my battery indicator is missing from
the task bar. I went to taskbar properties, Notification Area,
etc. and the POWER is grayed out.

Plugging in power makes no difference, though the unit sees the
power (screen brightens).

??
 
notachance said:
Booted this morning, and my battery indicator is missing from the task
bar. I went to taskbar properties, Notification Area, etc. and the POWER
is grayed out.
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Wow. That's a good one. I just noticed the same thing on my desktop
machine, except that the Network option also is disabled -- and I'm logged
in as an administrator (albeit as one of Vista's new sub-administrators)!

However, when I logged off of my current account and logged in as the
system's "super" administrator (usually named "Administrator" on most
installations), the Network option was enabled, but the Power option still
was disabled. But I've been tweaking this system for quite a while now, and
who knows what seemingly unrelated setting change I made had the unintended
consequence of disabling those items?

Try logging in as "Administrator" on your machine to see if that makes a
difference.
 
David said:
Wow. That's a good one. I just noticed the same thing on my desktop
machine, except that the Network option also is disabled -- and I'm
logged in as an administrator (albeit as one of Vista's new
sub-administrators)!

However, when I logged off of my current account and logged in as the
system's "super" administrator (usually named "Administrator" on most
installations), the Network option was enabled, but the Power option
still was disabled. But I've been tweaking this system for quite a
while now, and who knows what seemingly unrelated setting change I made
had the unintended consequence of disabling those items?

Try logging in as "Administrator" on your machine to see if that makes a
difference.
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I *think* that as the only user, I'm as super as can be.
Rebooted, still no POWER option. The Mobility Center still shows
battery performance, though.
 
Jonathan M. "TacticalSniper" Boyko said:
I guess I shouldn't ask it, but you guys have tried to reboot, right?
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Yes, but to no avail -- and that's not the only thing I've tried. I've
re-examined all of my tweaks, check all the security settings, and yelled at
it. It's entirely possible that I've missed another checkbox buried deep
in Control Panel somewhere, but if so, it's hard to find.
 
johnwes said:
I have the same problem. My battery indicator is gone and so is the
sound/volume indicator. I think it started after I ran a windows update.
No luck so far..


johnwes
Click to expand...
Right click Task bar, Properties, Notification Area then tick Clock,Volume
and Power.
 
brummyfan said:
Right click Task bar, Properties, Notification Area then tick Clock,Volume
and Power.
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I right clicked on task bar went to properties and notification area, then
clock was still checked, but Volume and Power were faded gray and could not
be checked.
 
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