Vista - Battery Meter on task bar does not show

Hi all,
I recently experienced the same exact problem: both volume and battery
meter disappeared from task bar and were grayed out in the notification
area. After one automatic update my volume option became active again,
and after Service Pack 1 installation, my Power option was active again.


Hopefully, nothing else will mysteriously disappear! Hope this helps!


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Note in response to my previous reply: upon installing additional
updates after SP1, my volume and network icons disappeared again! and
they were greyed out in the notification area!
However, after reading on another forum, I learned that all I needed to
do was to restart my computer, and it worked! They reappeared and all 4
notification areas in the taskbar properties are again active... for now
at least...I'm keeping my fingers crossed...


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I didnt read through all of the posts but i had a similar issue, I lost
my battery and network icons from my system tray after installation of
Vista service pack 1 on my HP Pavillion dv2718 laptop and restarts did
not help at all. I also had the options to turn them on greyed out in
the toolbar properties. In addition, my computer would not re-initiate
after it went into sleep mode and would crash and have to be hard reset
anytime it went into sleep. I did not feel comfortable messing with the
regedit.

After many hours with vista tech support, a senior tech called me back
the next day and had me update my BIOS from the HP website specific to
my machine. There was a more current version available so we downloaded
that. After that, it was all back to good. Thought you all may want to
know. - try this first!


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http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...72c8e1033.mspx

I think this might help .. I had the same prob .. but it appeared to
be so simple <at least for me> so i thought i could post the solution
here..

try to read :
How can I hide the battery icon in the notification area? posted in the
above link .. and just reverse the operation.. hope that helps..


Regards

reficuL


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I have the same issue for an XPS 1530. It's definitely an issue with
Vista and it also happened after I installed 'updates'. I have tried
shutting down once but this did not bring the icons back. Any clues?

The last post is not helpful as all three boxes (Power, Network and
Volume) are greyed and cannot be selected.


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