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I have a T60 2623-D6U that I bought back in June 2006. After having a lot of random issues, I finally got fed up and wiped everything and did a clean install of Win XP Pro. This solved most of my nagging problems except a couple.

I really like the neon green thinkpad power manager gauge that shows the % charge of the battery next to the windows taskbar. However, I find that the little blue windows battery icon in the taskbar is redundant.

My problem is that when I reboot or come out of hibernation, the power manager gauge and the windows icon inconsistently show up (sometimes one, or the other, or both, or neither).

I would just like the PM gauge to always show and the windows one to never show. Here is how i have my options set up...

In Power Manager, Options button at the bottom, "show Power Manager gauge in taskbar" is selected.

In advanced tab of my windows power options properties (accessed from right click desktop, properties, screen saver, power), "always show icon on the taksbar option" is unchecked.

I browsed the forum looking for similar problems, and the only thing i was able to glean was that Power Manager and the windows power management are slightly imperfectly linked.

Is there anyway to fix my issue? Thanks!

This won't help you but I do not use the Power Manager tool, and *do* use the Windows one. Yet, it does not always show up. I would say 1 boot in 5 (or thereabouts) the Windows power management icon fails to show. It has always been thus on my T41 and (since it lost a hard drive some years ago) the flaw is independent of build. ... JD Hurst

Hm...I never had this problem (disappearing windows battery icon) with my old inspiron 8100. I used to hate the PM icon, but it's grown on me. I like that it shows the percentage charge all the time, even when it's charging.

Anyway, I guess I have the opposite problem as you: the windows batt icon shows in 1 of 5 reboots. My only issue is when both decide not to show up.

ayw01 wrote:Hm...I never had this problem (disappearing windows battery icon) with my old inspiron 8100. <snip>

I never had the problem on any other TP than my T41. I didn't make that very clear in my prior post. ... JD Hurst

You probably already did this but in Control Panel in Power Options in the Advanced tab uncheck the "Always show icon on the task bar"

Wh0ops...looks like I'm guilty of skimming. Seems you already did this.

Guess the only thing I can contribute is that I do not have this problem.