Windows 10: Battery and Network Icon

Anyway to get the power icon to show anytime I'm on battery? I need don't need to see it when I'm plugged into AC, I only want to see how much juice I have remaining when I'm on battery.

Same with the network icon, I only want it to appear when I'm using WiFi so I can see the signal strength, I don't need or want to see it when I'm plugged into Ethernet, I only want it to show on WiFi...

These things used to be simple but Microsoft seems to be making exact customization hard.

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Battery Notifiction Icon

Hi Jessica,

Missing battery icon may be caused by an incorrect configuration of the settings. You may follow the steps below to troubleshoot the issue:

Method 1:

• Open Task Manager > Click More details.
• On the Processes tab, find and select Windows Explorer.
• Click Restart on the lower right.
• After the Windows Explorer process has been restarted, check the notification area on the taskbar and see if the battery icon is visible.

Method 2:

• Type Turn system icons on or off in the search box then hit
  Enter.
• Toggle Power to On and check if the battery icon appear.

Let us know if the steps above worked.

 

Missing Date and Time, volume and Battery Icons

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I suggest you to follow the steps below and check if this helps:

• Right click on the task bar and you will get a popup menu.
• Click on properties.
• Under behavior of system icons select ON for volume icon, Date and Time icon and Battery icon to always show.
• Click OK.

Hope this information was helpful and do let us know if you need further assistance. We will be glad to assist.

 

Missing laptop battery icon in Windows

Just to clarify, have you also tried the steps below?

• Type Device Manager in Cortana's search field.
• Click the drop down arrow for Batteries.
• Try to disable/re-enable AC Adapter and ACPI Compliant Method Battery.

Check if the battery icon will re-appear after doing that step.