Laptop battery meter

[golfnut]

I have a Compaq laptop, i used to have a battery meter on the task bar in the lower right hand corner of the screen but it has disappeared, anyone know where I can go to find it?.............gn

[zcaveman]

First I have to assume that you clicked on the hide/unhide icons in the system area of the taskbar to make sure it is not just in the hide icons location. If it is in the hidden list, the following does not apply. Let me know and I can show how to unhide it.

Go to Start>Control Panel and click on Performance and Maintenance. Click on Power Options. Click on Power Meter and make sure that Show Details for each battery is checked. Go to the advanced tab and make sure Always show icon on the taskbar is checked.

That should do it.

Z

[golfnut]

thanks Z, unfortunately though there is nothing related to the power meter when i click on power options under system and maintenance, and no it is not hidden on the task bar, :shrug:....gn

[SALYBOW]

Did you try running a search. Might work!

[zcaveman]

thanks Z, unfortunately though there is nothing related to the power meter when i click on power options under system and maintenance, and no it is not hidden on the task bar, :shrug:....gn

When you click on Power Options, what is in the Power Schemes window?

[golfnut]

saly, yes I did a search and came up with nothing. Z when i click on power options the pop window says select a power plan then there are 3 radio buttons for HP recommended, power saver and high performance....gn

[mgm4444]

Go to Start, type in "Taskbar" - click each tab (not sure what tabs you'll have) until you find "notification area" and it will ask you to click what icons you want to always show

[mgm4444]

another way you can do this, is right-click on the task bar, go to properties, find where it says icons and put a checkmark on "power" - hope this helps !

[zcaveman]

What OS are you running - XP, Vista, or W7?

[golfnut]

thank you z and mom, i found it by rt clicking the taskbar and under the notification tab there was a power selection, thanks again for sticking with me on this, btw, i am running Vista home premium....gn

[zcaveman]

Glad you solved the problem!!

Z