Windows 7 left click battery tray icon

[beinghuman]

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.

 

[Brink]

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

 

[zone23]

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.

 

[beinghuman]

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.

 

[beinghuman]

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.

 

[zone23]

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?

 

[Brink]

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.

 

[Kari]

... Power Options gives you two options:

Balanced
Power Saver
...

There are three power options as seen here:



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.



Kari

 

[beinghuman]

... Power Options gives you two options:

Balanced
Power Saver
...

There are three power options as seen here:

View attachment 40585

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.

View attachment 40584

Kari

View attachment 40584

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.

 

[beinghuman]

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.

 

[zone23]

... Power Options gives you two options:

Balanced
Power Saver
...

There are three power options as seen here:

View attachment 40585

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.

View attachment 40584

Kari

I'm in no way calling you a lair but I do not have these options in 7, I had them in Vista. My 7 is a clean install with all drivers provided by Toshiba so maybe that makes a difference. I have exactly what I posted and I don't beleive their is anything wrong with my install.

 

[beinghuman]

... Power Options gives you two options:

Balanced
Power Saver
...

There are three power options as seen here:

View attachment 40585

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.

View attachment 40584

Kari

I'm in no way calling you a lair but I do not have these options in 7, I had them in Vista. My 7 is a clean install with all drivers provided by Toshiba so maybe that makes a difference. I have exactly what I posted and I don't beleive their is anything wrong with my install.

I know you're not calling me a liar. Kari is the one that posted the screenshot. However, that is the functionality I'm missing and Kari seems to have it. Whatever kind of bug it is it seems that you have it as well.

 

[Kari]

I honestly don't know what to say. I am not able to reproduce your issue. You could try to turn the power icon off (right click notification are, choose Properties), reboot and turn it on again.

Kari

 

[zone23]

This is what I have on my Toshiba

Right Click

Left Click

Power Options

 

[beinghuman]

I honestly don't know what to say. I am not able to reproduce your issue. You could try to turn the power icon off (right click notification are, choose Properties), reboot and turn it on again.

Kari

Tried it a million times. Is there anyway I can uninstall the power tray app and reinstall it? It works with drivers and it's worth a shot. Though, I don't really know how to go about uninstall this feature.

 

[Kari]

This is what I have on my Toshiba

That is a right click menu (your upper image), not the left click.

 

[zone23]

This is what I have on my Toshiba

That is a right click menu (your upper image), not the left click.

My bad its fixed now (I think).

I got it now see I'm not on that computer so?

 

[beinghuman]

This is what I have on my Toshiba

That is a right click menu (your upper image), not the left click.

My bad its fixed now (I think).

THAT'S IT! That's what I'm missing. Do you understand, now?

 

[Kari]

We understand your issue, we just have no fix or solution to offer. I'll be back if I can find something.

Kari

 

[beinghuman]

I found the problem.

The problem was a program that I forgot to uninstall after my upgrade to Windows 7. The program taskbar shuffle was disrupting it.

So, there is the answer to all you googlers out there, just uninstall taskbar shuffle and all is new.

beinghuman