No battery icon in safe mode

[shelbourne104]

Hi all,
I am having a problem in safe mode when my battery icon disappeares. I have a seperate program called BatteryCare, but it says there is no battery installed, and there is one installed and fully charged. When I type in battery in start menu, and click on show or hide battery icon in taskbar, in the window, the power option is greyed out. How do you fix this?

 

[Neutron16]

In Safe mode Windows turns off some services and uses generic drivers.

Please check if Power service is running.
Start orb - seach for "msconfig.exe" - Services tab.

You can start services without restarting system with CodeStuff :: Starter

 

[shelbourne104]

Thanks

 

[shelbourne104]

The service appears to be running but i cant turn on the icon
The action center one is now enabled

 

[Neutron16]

Well, let's check for devices themselves then.

Start orb - search for "Device manager". In English version of Windows Batteries should be on the first place in device manager.
In Safe mode they might not be there. As I mentioned Windows does not start some services/devices in Safe mode.

May I ask you why do you have such need to check your battery in safe mode? May be we can suggest some other workarounds for you.

 

[shelbourne104]

I need it because when my laptop was new I got about 3 1/2 hrs battery and 8 months later I get about 2 and my battery has only degraded about 5%. There are a ton of services and processes running and my CPU is running at about 10% idle and when it was new it ran at 0.

 

[Neutron16]

If you need it, do not use Safe mode. Boot in Regular mode and kill unnecessary software and services with a program, I mentioned earlier.

 

[shelbourne104]

It takes forever like 20 minutes...