power icon lost/missing.
Josh
other day I noticed that the battery icon in the lower right hand corner had
dissappeared. I tried looking in "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties" and
under the "Notification Area" but the power box under "System icons" was
avaliable for checking.
I've tried restarting my computer, because that would sometimes help, and
I've tried chaning power plans, but nothing seems to work.
Could someone help me?
Jenn
right now i'm trying to figure out why this is happening with vaio online
support. they seem to have no idea what i'm talking about but are suggesting
its a drivers issue. i tried doing it even though i'm not really sure what
i'm doing exactly and i got my network icon back. now all i need are my
volume and power and i'm back up and running.
SUPERphammie
Heys, ermm I had the same proble too. I don't think it has anything to
do with the software or anything. And i don't know if this work for you
guys but I simply unplugged my power, then took the battery out...*went
for some ice-cream* came back and put it back in*without attaching the
adapter yet*...logged in and the battery icon was there, then i plugged
my adapter in and it showed the charging icon. Everything normal...hoped
this help. =]
Phammie.
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mayfairsilver
Right click on the taskbar, near the notification icons in the bottom
right of the screen.
Press properties.
At the bottom of the popup are 'System icons', and clock / volume /
network / power can be switched on/off.
Let me know if that does the trick.
MS
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harrylim
Dear,
I go to property in taskbar and chosen Notification tab, but the icon
power feild is inactive(please see image I attached below), how can I
get it back?
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sailor
I have the same problem with the battery icon missing. It is inactive
when you click on the task bar. There seems to be another icon missing
as well, but the batter level in the one I really need.
My rig is a HP pavilion dv6700 with Vista Home Premium 32bit
I tried the remove battery / eat ice cream. Ice cream was good, but
Icon still missing.
any help is appreciated.
PJ
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peeanorun
I had the same problem with the power icon not showing up but I
contacted an online technician and the instructions they gave me really
worked.
1. Click on the start button
2. Go to the SEARCH box on the bottom and search under "Device". There
you will see several options showing up. Click on "Device Manager".
3. Click on the "+" of System Devices.
4. There you will find something like "ACPI Fixed Tools" or something
like that. It's the first one from the list.
5. Right click the ACPI and select "Uninstall".
6. Restart your computer. The ACPI will be automatically reinstalled.
7. Once your computer is restarted, click on the arrow button on the
toolbar (lower right on the screen).
8. Select "Properties" and there you will see that your power icon has
been activated so simply select "power" under system icons.
9. Now your power icon will appear.
I hope this helps! :D
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sailor
Thanks to the person who sent me the answer. For some strange reason, I
don't see it posted at present, but it worked.
Start- search "device"- click device manager- select"+" -ACPI FIXED, R
click,select uninstall -Restart -click toolbar arrow lower R -Properties
-Activate Power Icon - Restart.
It worked. Thanks, PJ
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peeanorun
I'm glad it worked out! I found that the HP online technician chat
really helped a lot. You can ask them your problem and they'll give you
a solution to it for free. I tried calling HP too but they didn't help
much. Here's the link if you need it : 'Customer Service / Contact HP'
(http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/contact_us.html)
Creating an account is easy and the serial and product number they ask
is right on the bottom of your laptop. Anyways, glad it worked out and I
hope you have a good day. :o)
rcarrosq
I took 2 turns today with HP chat and everything suggested here has
been tried. The last thing they had me do was the ACPI FIXED, etc and
although the battery icon appeared immediately, after I restarted my
notebook, it was gone again.
I've also taken the battery out and put it back in again after awhile,
I did the regedit thing and once again, the icon appeared immediately
but disappeared again at the next reboot. The next bit of advice HP
chat gave me was to reboot, hit F8 just before it starts up and then
choose "repair". I'm sort of leery of doing this but I think I'm out of
options. Maybe I'll just leave the notebook plugged up:(.....unless
somebody else has a better suggestion?
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rcarrosq
Just a quick note. After searching all kinds of boards and talking to 2
tech guys where I work, there was still nothing I could find regarding
fixing this problem. But....there is a silver lining here.....my laptop
did some automatic updates and after a reboot, VOILA! All my icons were
back. I've rebooted twice so far and the icons are still here. Lets
hope the problem has fixed itself with the updates because I was sort of
suspecting that this disappearing icon problem started after a windows
update.
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TD9175
have found an alternative solution to the problem. (I'm running a
Toshiba Satellite L305D-S5900 machine) When I went into Taskbar
Properties, the option for me to enable the Power icon was grayed out.
After reading the quoted post, I decided to look into the Device
Manager. I found two items listed under the Batteries section: 1)
Microsoft AC Adapter and 2) Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method
Battery. Since they're devices, you can enable/disable them, so while I
had my computer plugged in, I disabled the Microsoft ACPI-Compliant
Control Method Battery, and then re-enabled it. After it was enabled
again, I could go into Taskbar Properties and enable the Power icon. No
uninstalling stuff, no reboots. After restarting my machine, the icon
is still here and everything is back to normal :D! I only restarted my
laptop to make sure the icon wouldn't disappear upon every restart; I
was able to change the setting as soon as the battery was enabled again.
Just thought I'd share my find - even if the topic is older than I am
roflcakes :p :p
-TD9175
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rolandnp
:D:D:D:D:DTHANK YOU MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!! It worked :D:D:D:D:D
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aprilia1k
Well - I APPRECIATE that you went ahead and posted your recent (June
'09) experience on this old thread - I just ran in to this problem on my
Gateway P7805u laptop. The problem CLEARLY happened due to a microsoft
update. I ran update to get the past 4 week's worth of updates from
microsoft and rebooted and the power icon was just missing and the
option to enable/disable was greyed out. I followed your advice to go
to device manager and disable/enable the "MS ACPI-Compliant Control
Method Battery" device and the problem is fixed. MS should be more
careful with their updates though, ya ask me. And, that device name is
ridiculous IMHO too ;-) "The Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method
Battery" device... sheeeeesh, what a mouthful of meaninglessness. :)
THANKS AGAIN!!!!
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Murtaza
i have vista home premium,and i dont know y my baterry icon is mising i
tried to bring it from task bar properties but i could not becauz the
icon waz greyishh.
pleaze help me
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t-4-2
system restore, choosing a restore date when you did have the icon that you
are now missing.
If you do not know for sure which date you lost the icon........ try the
following tutorial :
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/106787-notification-area-system-icons.html
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Business (latest service pack).
My solution does NOT require rebooting or registry editing:
Obatin Process Explorer
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
Right click on Explorer.exe, and click Restart
(same as Process menu selection, then Restart)
t-4-2
How about a solution that is down to earth........ system restore.
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TD9175 said:
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> "1) Microsoft AC Adapter and 2) Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method
> Battery. Since they're devices, you can enable/disable them, so while I
> had my computer plugged in, I disabled the Microsoft ACPI-Compliant
> Control Method Battery, and then re-enabled it. After it was enabled
> again, I could go into Taskbar Properties and enable the Power icon. No
> uninstalling stuff, no reboots."
Also worked fine for my Vista HP on HP Presario F700. Now all I need
to to get an actual fix for the no-hibernation on this system...!
Thanks again for your wisdom, TD9175
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