XP on a laptop.

I like the battery icon to always appear in the taskbar so I know when the 
battery is fully charged and I can discontinue the power cable.  But, even 
though I have that icon to "always show" in the taskbar properties 
(customize Notifications), it disappears as soon as I attach the power line. 
Is there a way to change this behavior?

Related issue: When I attach the power cable a icon used to appear to show 
that.  Now this no longer happens and I cannot find its icon in the taskbar 
properties to tell it to appear when active.

Jeff 

On 12/1/2009 6:12 PM, Jeff@couldbeinvalid.com wrote:
> XP on a laptop.
> 
> I like the battery icon to always appear in the taskbar so I know when the 
> battery is fully charged and I can discontinue the power cable.  But, even 
> though I have that icon to "always show" in the taskbar properties 
> (customize Notifications), it disappears as soon as I attach the power line. 
> Is there a way to change this behavior?
> 
> Related issue: When I attach the power cable a icon used to appear to show 
> that.  Now this no longer happens and I cannot find its icon in the taskbar 
> properties to tell it to appear when active.

Have you looked in the Task Bar and Start Menu properties?  Right click
on the taskbar and select properties.  In the Notification area at the
bottom of the window, is the Hide inactive icons checked?  If so, click
on configure then scroll through the list until you find the "On AC
Power" icon and change it to always show.

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Roy Smith
Windows XP Pro SP3

Roy Smith wrote:
> On 12/1/2009 6:12 PM, Jeff@couldbeinvalid.com wrote:
>> XP on a laptop.
>>
>> I like the battery icon to always appear in the taskbar so I know
>> when the battery is fully charged and I can discontinue the power
>> cable.  But, even though I have that icon to "always show" in the
>> taskbar properties (customize Notifications), it disappears as soon
>> as I attach the power line. Is there a way to change this behavior?
>>
>> Related issue: When I attach the power cable a icon used to appear
>> to show that.  Now this no longer happens and I cannot find its icon
>> in the taskbar properties to tell it to appear when active.
>
> Have you looked in the Task Bar and Start Menu properties?  Right
> click on the taskbar and select properties.  In the Notification area
> at the bottom of the window, is the Hide inactive icons checked?  If
> so, click on configure then scroll through the list until you find
> the "On AC Power" icon and change it to always show.

That is precisely my problem.
1. The battery icon is marked as "always show", but does not obey that 
command.  It dissappears as soon as I attach the power cable.
2. The "On AC Power" icon does not exist in the list so I cannot change it 
to always on. So, when AC is connected, the battery icon simply dissappears 
and is not replaced by the AC icon.