Windows 7 left click battery tray icon

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  1. Posts : 9
    Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit
       #1

    Windows 7 left click battery tray icon


    Hello,

    I'm having issues with the left click of the battery tray icon. When I click on it nothing shows up. In Vista, it would show up a tiny little window similar to the network sys tray icon. The battery window would allow you to switch power profiles. However, there is nothing that shows up when I left click or left double click on the battery tray icon. This has been a problem ever since the upgrade to windows 7.


    Here is a screencap of the icon I am referring to (it's the battery on the left):


    Thanks in advance for the help.
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  2. Posts : 71,978
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #2

    Hello BeingHuman, and welcome to Seven Forums.

    You should be able to also right click on it and click on Power Options to select a new power profile as well for now, but you might see if restarting the computer may be able to restore the left click function.

    Hope this helps,
    Shawn
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  3. Posts : 170
    Windows 7 X64
       #3

    Right clicking the power icon on my laptop gives me 4 options:

    Adjust Sceen Brightness
    Power Options
    Windows Mobility Center
    Turn System Icons on or OFF

    7 no longer has the options you are looking for (Max. Battery drain for little performance increase). Power Options gives you two options:

    Balanced
    Power Saver

    Have no fear if you PC needs the extra CPU it will ramp it up on its own.
      My Computer


  4. Posts : 9
    Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit
    Thread Starter
       #4

    zone23 said:
    Right clicking the power icon on my laptop gives me 4 options:

    Adjust Sceen Brightness
    Power Options
    Windows Mobility Center
    Turn System Icons on or OFF

    7 no longer has the options you are looking for (Max. Battery drain for little performance increase). Power Options gives you two options:

    Balanced
    Power Saver

    Have no fear if you PC needs the extra CPU it will ramp it up on its own.

    What about left clicking the power icon? Or double left clicking? That's the option I'm talking about that seems to be missing.
      My Computer


  5. Posts : 9
    Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Brink said:
    Hello BeingHuman, and welcome to Seven Forums.

    You should be able to also right click on it and click on Power Options to select a new power profile as well for now, but you might see if restarting the computer may be able to restore the left click function.

    Hope this helps,
    Shawn

    No, restarting does not help at all.
      My Computer


  6. Posts : 170
    Windows 7 X64
       #6

    beinghuman said:
    zone23 said:
    Right clicking the power icon on my laptop gives me 4 options:

    Adjust Sceen Brightness
    Power Options
    Windows Mobility Center
    Turn System Icons on or OFF

    7 no longer has the options you are looking for (Max. Battery drain for little performance increase). Power Options gives you two options:

    Balanced
    Power Saver

    Have no fear if you PC needs the extra CPU it will ramp it up on its own.

    What about left clicking the power icon? Or double left clicking? That's the option I'm talking about that seems to be missing.
    My bad left click is what I meant and ya the options your looking for have been removed. So when you left click you should see:

    Adjust Sceen Brightness
    Power Options
    Windows Mobility Center
    Turn System Icons on or OFF

    no Max. performance you dont have any options at all?
      My Computer


  7. Posts : 71,978
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #7

    Zone,

    When I left click on the laptop, I still get the two Power Plan options for a quick change and the Power Options link.
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  8. Posts : 17,545
    Windows 10 Pro x64 EN-GB
       #8

    zone23 said:
    ... Power Options gives you two options:

    Balanced
    Power Saver
    ...
    There are three power options as seen here:

    Windows 7 left click battery tray icon-power_options2.png

    Left clicking the power icon lets you choose between balanced and High Performance or Power Saver plans (depending on which one of these two has been last used). Balanced is always shown. You also get links to adjust screen brightness and power plan options.

    Windows 7 left click battery tray icon-power_options.png

    Kari
      My Computer


  9. Posts : 9
    Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit
    Thread Starter
       #9

    Kari said:
    zone23 said:
    ... Power Options gives you two options:

    Balanced
    Power Saver
    ...
    There are three power options as seen here:

    Windows 7 left click battery tray icon-power_options2.png

    Left clicking the power icon lets you choose between balanced and High Performance or Power Saver plans (depending on which one of these two has been last used). Balanced is always shown. You also get links to adjust screen brightness and power plan options.

    Windows 7 left click battery tray icon-power_options.png

    Kari

    Windows 7 left click battery tray icon-power_options.png

    This is what doesn't appear when I left click or left double click the power icon. Nothing at all appears.

    I have an asus laptop. So I installed power4gear hybrid. This is not the problem however because when I uninstalled it the left click window still didn't appear. This all happened after I upgraded to windows 7 home premium 32-bit from windows vista home premium 32-bit

    Thanks.
      My Computer


  10. Posts : 9
    Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit
    Thread Starter
       #10

    zone23 said:
    beinghuman said:
    zone23 said:
    Right clicking the power icon on my laptop gives me 4 options:

    Adjust Sceen Brightness
    Power Options
    Windows Mobility Center
    Turn System Icons on or OFF

    7 no longer has the options you are looking for (Max. Battery drain for little performance increase). Power Options gives you two options:

    Balanced
    Power Saver

    Have no fear if you PC needs the extra CPU it will ramp it up on its own.

    What about left clicking the power icon? Or double left clicking? That's the option I'm talking about that seems to be missing.
    My bad left click is what I meant and ya the options your looking for have been removed. So when you left click you should see:

    Adjust Sceen Brightness
    Power Options
    Windows Mobility Center
    Turn System Icons on or OFF

    no Max. performance you dont have any options at all?

    I have all the options and then some (custom plans). I just can't get that window to appear on left click or left double click.

    Am I really not expressing this well enough, it seems simple enough to me.


    Maybe I should say on primary click rather than left click because some may be left-handed and it may be right click for them.
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