xps battery icon missing on task bar

Question

In control panel, power option, advanced. I have checked,' always show icon in the task bar'.to show bat. %.conditon . It used to be there and now it isn't. I can not get it to show up in the task bar. Any suggestions.

chaistt · Answer

go back and uncheck then recheck the box, then click apply it should reappear again.

tuckatangent · Answer

thanks for the help; the same thing happened to me. i even got a new battery from dell, because i didn't know what was going on, and i got a 'critical battery' alert when the battery was at 99% power. so weird.

chaistt · Answer

could be a faulty battery again

lisowskimf · Answer

Hello,

I have a 5150 not and xps. However, I periodically experience this same issue. From my experience you will have to check the always show box. Then hit apply and reboot. Then go to the start menus poperties and where it say hide inactive icons (or something like this) click the customize option. Then locate the battery icon and select always show. This usually keeps it on my task bar for a few weeks.

My only question is why does it disappear? I originally guessed it was caused by windows cleaning up what it believed where unsed icons so I turned feature this off.
However, it is only a minor problem so I have learned to deal with it.

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