Missing battery status icon

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Several months ago, the battery status icon disappeared from the status area at the bottom right of my home page. I am running 22H2 on a Surface Pro 7. I believe this happened after an update, but don’t recall if it was a Feature or Quality, and not sure. Is there any way to recover this, as it is an issue when I’m travelling and don’t leave the Surface plugged in all day?

Thanks!

 

D. Eager

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Right click on the Taskbar. Choose “Taskbar Settings”
Scroll down to “Notification Area” – there are two links.
See if you can turn on the battery icon there (I am on a desktop, no battery option)

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I have been offered this solution before, but doesn’t work. There is a “power” setting but no “battery” setting. The power switch is on, but greyed out. Not sure what that means???

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On the top right of the Taskbar Settings page, there is a link to instructions about showing the battery icon on the taskbar. See if any of those instructions work for you.
If the battery icon is in the hidden icons, you can drag it out in the open.

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PK,

Thanks for taking the time to send the instructions. Unfortunately, none worked for me. Here is a summary of events:

1. No Power toggle displays. No battery icon displays under show hidden icons.
2. No Battery item displays on Device Manager, including “hidden items.”
3. I deleted the Search box, but used key combination to start Task Manager. Under Processes, there is no “Explorer” item to right-click, but I found  “Windows Explorer” and right-clicked that. Did a restart as recommended. No effect, still no battery icon displayed.

Any additional suggestions or where I might find further instructions?

 

Don E.

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Nope, sorry, my battery is out of juice.

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This is a “known bug” with Windows 10 and here’s how to fix it.

Open Device manager (Win-key+R, enter devmgmt.msc and press the Enter key) and expand the Batteries device.

Right-click each device shown in that section and choose Disable.

Then go back and Right-click each device and choose Enable.

Reboot your PC and the battery icon “should” show up again.

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Sorry, but I was also offerred this solution in the past but didn’t work. Tried again today but is still “no go.” There is NO battery item listed in Device Manager, including hidden items.

Do you have any additional suggestions?

 

Thanks.

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Start by running DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth

followed by sfc /scannow

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/use-the-system-file-checker-tool-to-repair-missing-or-corrupted-system-files-79aa86cb-ca52-166a-92a3-966e85d4094e

If this doesn’t bring the battery driver and icon you will need to run Windows repair.

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Thanks for the info. I must admit that the DISM and sfc processes look VERY complex and scarey.  By “running DISM…” I assume that you mean type the text you provided into the Run command line. Is this correct?

Once the DISM process completes, am I to type the sfc /scannow command into the Run command line? The link you sent is to a 6-page document with many complex details. I’m not sure I’m competant enough to figure this out.

Are there any possible unexpected adverse side effects to running either of these processes that might make my computer situation alot worse than living without the battery icon?

Don E.

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Be sure you right-click on the cmd.exe and “Run as Administrator.”

DISM and sfc are Windows troubleshooting tools that attempt to correct corrupted System files. They are safe to run.
Note any errors they find and report back.

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I don’t understand what cmd.exe is, where to find it, or how it relates to the DISM.exe or sfc /scannow Run commands.  I see that there is cmd command displayed on the drop-down under Run app, but I can’t right-click it.

Do I run DISM and sfc from the Run app?

Can you explain further?

 

Thanks.

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You run both of those commands in an elevated Command Prompt.
Type cmd.exe in the search box, right click on the search results (cmd.exe) and choose “Run as Administrator.”
At the cursor in the Command Prompt that opens, type the first command (the DISM one) and hit Enter.
When if finishes, type the sfc command and hit Enter.

When it finishes, note the errors if any, then type “Exit” and hit Enter

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I’m sorry to say, but despite all the advice and suggestions I STILL hsve no battery icon in the noticication are or hidden. Here is a summary of what I did and the results.

1. Ran cmd.exe as administrator.
2. Ran DISM.  Operation completed successfully.
3. Ran sfc. No integrity violations found.
4. Went to instructions on add battery icon to task bar.  First item: no power toggle displayed on taskbar or hidden. Second item: No battery item on Device Manager or hidden devices. Third item: Restarted Windows Explorer in Task Manager. No battery icon displayed.

Unless somone has another process to try, I guess I’m done with this and will just have to live without the battery icon. Please, if you have anmore ideas for me to try, let me know.

D. Eager

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doneager wrote:

Unless somone has another process to try, I guess I’m done with this and will just have to live without the battery icon. Please, if you have anmore ideas for me to try, let me know.

You should run Windows repair.

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According to how to fix my surface is not showing the battery icon in the task bar another possible solution is to download/run  Microsoft’s “Support and Recovery Assistant” (SaRA) from https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=100607.

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