Battery Icon Missing?

[BananaPancake]

I'm using windows vista on a notebook, and today I discovered that the icon
that used to be in my notification area next to the clock, that showed me how
much battery I had left is missing. I've tried looking through the control
panel and other areas, and can't figure out how to get the icon back. Anyone
know how? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[oscar]

Did you try this:

-right click notification area of task bar
-choose properties
-check Power

 

[BananaPancake]

hmmm I just tried, but power as well as volume are grayed out and won't let
me select them. Any other ideas?

 

[oscar]

Have any programs been uninstalled or any folders or files been deleted
lately?

 

[BananaPancake]

I've deleted some of my personal files and that sort of thing, but nothing
important haha. No programs have been uninstalled. And call me stupid, I'm
not very good with computers (Obviously) but what is the SP1? How could I
check to see if thats installed, and how would I install it? I just got this
computer in early june so I would think that it's fairly updated? haha
hopefully someone can figure this out because it's pretty annoying. Thanks
for the quick replies by the way!

 

[oscar]

First, congratulations on going Vista. I migrated to Vista a year ago and
like many I complained about some of the bugs and how different it was than
XP. But after deciding that it was time to go forward I dove into Vista and
now I see that XP is in the past. You will discover many posters whose
part-time occupation is to come to this forum and complain about Vista,
constantly. Ignore them. Vista is a solid OS as long as the user doesn’t
damage any of its files or use crummy software that might cause damage to the
system. So right off the bat I’m gonna tell you to stay away from “registry
cleaners†for Vista.

Now back to your problem:

You’re Vista may already have SP 1 installed. Go to Welcome Center > View
computer details. It may display that you have SP 1 with your Windows Vista.
If not, click on Show more details. If that doesn’t work then Control
Panel\System and Maintenance\System

Also go here for more info on SP 1.

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/windowsvistasp1.mspx

As for your icon problem, check out this tutorial:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/106787-notification-area-system-icons.html

These links I found by entering questions in the Search Microsoft.com box
where you will find good info, most of the time.

Hope this helps…