Battery icon missing from Taskbar; Power button setting grayed out

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Windows 10 is a pretty feature-rich operating system. However, some people take faced dissimilar bug after upgrading to Windows x. After upgrading or subsequently installing Windows Updates, if you practise not see the battery icon on the Taskbar, hither is a elementary gear up. If you lot are using Windows eight.1/eight/seven, yous can chop-chop bear witness or hide organization icons. Simply, in Windows ten, you take to navigate through different a path to find out the options.

Battery icon missing from Taskbar

Earlier getting started with this tutorial, y'all should know that this is applicable only for laptop users. Other versions may take the same option but in a different location.

Oen the Settings panel of Windows 10. Just press Win+I to open it. Here, you will see Personalization. Click on it.

Nether Personalization, Taskbar should exist visible. Curl down a little bit on your right-paw side to discover out Plow system icons on or off under Notification area.

On the side by side popup window, you will find some buttons side by side to Clock, Book, Network, etc. You will as well encounter a button next to Power. It is black in color, just toggle that button to plough it On. The change will affect immediately.

If you are unable to do this, and the Power button is grayed out, so practise the following.

Ability push System icon setting grayed out

Open the Device Manager. You lot can press Win + Ten and select Device Manager. After opening it, you will see this windows:

Aggrandize Batteries. You tin can observe two dissimilar options.

Microsoft AS Adapter
Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery

Right-click on both of them and select Disable. Now, again right-click on them and select Enable.

Having done this, restart your PC and check.

You should exist able to get the battery icon or the ability icon on your Taskbar.

This procedure can work on Windows x, Windows 8.i, Windows 8 and Windows 7 equally well.

Anand Khanse is the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com, a 10-twelvemonth Microsoft MVP (2006-xvi) & a Windows Insider MVP. Please read the entire post & the comments beginning, create a System Restore Point before making whatsoever changes to your organization & be careful virtually whatsoever 3rd-party offers while installing freeware.