How to get rid of the windows battery icon in the taskbar?

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Logi7 · #1 Post by **Logi7** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 12:28 am

its pretty useless seeing as the ibm bettery maximizer does a btter job

how can i get rid of it?

RoadHazard · #2 Post by **RoadHazard** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 2:16 am

There is an option to turn it off in the power management applet in the control panel.

Leon · #3 Post by **Leon** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:47 am

why do they give 2 different "time remaining" times when on battery power?

andrzejpw · #4 Post by **andrzejpw** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 3:13 pm

RoadHazard wrote:There is an option to turn it off in the power management applet in the control panel.

mine still shows

benz · #5 Post by **benz** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 4:09 pm

mine will not seem to go away either - when I am on battery it appears and double clicking on it shows that the box for "Always show icon on taskbar" is UNchecked. I think that is not a mistake - if you were to check it the icon would be there on AC and battery, whereas unchecked it will only show up on battery.

still doesn't solve the problem of how to remove it entirely.......

andrzejpw · #6 Post by **andrzejpw** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 4:16 pm

benz has it right, that's how it's suppossed to work. To be honest, I've searched around for a solution for quite a while, but nothing seems to take it away.

geobel · #7 Post by **geobel** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 4:22 pm

benz wrote:mine will not seem to go away either - when I am on battery it appears and double clicking on it shows that the box for "Always show icon on taskbar" is UNchecked. I think that is not a mistake - if you were to check it the icon would be there on AC and battery, whereas unchecked it will only show up on battery.

still doesn't solve the problem of how to remove it entirely.......

That is the same problem as with disconnected network icons. No way to get them away from taskbar, except for disabling network cards. XPs hide inactive icons does not help. I configure network icons to be always hidden but from time to time they pop up again. Have been fighting with this for quite a while. Surprisingly Google search does not give any answer...

Gosha

geobel · #8 Post by **geobel** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 4:38 pm

Hmm...
Found two icon hiding utilities, haven't tested yet though:

http://www.colorpilot.com/tray.html

[UPDATE] the above utility (Tray Pilot) seems to be the smallest and cleanest. lite version is free. I perhaps will stay with it

and

http://www.xdesksoftware.com/systrayx.html

and yet another one (not sertified for XP though):

http://www.mlin.net/TraySaver.shtml

one more...

http://www.4t-niagara.com/tray.html

Registry hack to hide all tray icons:

http://www.tweakxp.com/tweak1106.aspx

again some icon hiding utility:

http://www.pcworlddownload.com/system-u ... rotect.htm

Gosha

benz · #9 Post by **benz** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 6:16 pm

For me, the hassle of trying to find a tweak/hack to remove the icons is not worth the little taskbar real estate that I would gain. So I don't mind them being there, but i dont know how hard it would be for MS to make a simple option to hide the [censored] things individually....

How to get rid of the windows battery icon in the taskbar?

How to get rid of the windows battery icon in the taskbar?

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