Power and other icons in the taskbar

[ELViking]

Hi,
I have a Toshiba laptop, runnin Win XP Home Ed.
Most of the time my power icons for my battery/AC power
and sometimes other icons, do not show up in the taskbar.
I have many times checked to make sure that they are set
to be displayed, and they definitely are. Things like my
power icons are kind of important. I can get them to
display by unchecking the 'display icon in task..' and
clicking 'apply' and then rechecking the box and
clicking 'apply'. However, this is really rather annoying
as when I first got the laptop, all icons would display,
but of course a week or so later this stopped happening,
and I'm getting sick of it.
Anybody got any idea how to fix this rather annoying
Windows bad habit?
Thanks in advance.

 

[Ben Randall]

Hi,
I have a Toshiba laptop, runnin Win XP Home Ed.
Most of the time my power icons for my battery/AC power
and sometimes other icons, do not show up in the taskbar.
I have many times checked to make sure that they are set
to be displayed, and they definitely are. Things like my
power icons are kind of important. I can get them to
display by unchecking the 'display icon in task..' and
clicking 'apply' and then rechecking the box and
clicking 'apply'. However, this is really rather annoying
as when I first got the laptop, all icons would display,
but of course a week or so later this stopped happening,
and I'm getting sick of it.
Anybody got any idea how to fix this rather annoying
Windows bad habit?
Thanks in advance.

This is sometimes cause by the icons going "inactive" and then being covered
up by the taskbar. They can usually be restored by clicking the arrow next
to the rest of the icons and the clock in the system tray. This will
uncover all of the icons, but will slide back in a few seconds, you can
check your power in that time and do whatever else you need. They do this
to keep the tray from getting too cluttered.

If this IS the problem you are having then you can keep them displayed
always by right clicking, choosing Properties. Make sure the Taskbar Tab is
selected and click Customize at the bottom next to Hide Inactive Icons.
Find the power icon in the list and in the Behavior box next to it, choose
"Always Show".

 

[ELViking]

Nope, thats not the problem. The problem is that they
don't show up/don't load, however you want to say it. Its
not that they're hidden.

 

[Vincent]

I have the same problem with both my toshiba 3440CT and also my Fujitsu
S6130.......