in w7 anybody know where to find plugged in BESIDES taskbar "sys tray"?
hi C4C,
nice to meet you.
sys tray? never heard it called that. i always hear it called "taskbat".
this was the first obvious place i checked.
one thing that i noticed is that with computers there are 2-3 different ways to complete the same function.
one is in the taskbar. the second is in the control panel (or was with XP, as you can't find it in the W7 control panel? -- couldn't double check and find it in W7).
there was a reason WHY i needed to double check this
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strollin,
thanks for the replying back
ahhh, the arrow -- i forgot about that, that is a good idea.
the reason WHY i needed to double check whether the power cord was plugged in was because
i needed to know whether i had a "defective" power cord or if it was no longer working.
in xp, i could SIMPLY find this information in the control panel, but in W7, i cannot.
here is the problem that i was having:
1. the power cord was physically connected
2. NO LIGHT showed up in the power section on the computer
3. the computer was almost out of battery power and so i was worried that i wouldn't be "able" to do much before it turned off (and i did not have the chance to diagnose the problem, such as the double check in the W7 control panel...
4. in the taskbar, the icon did not have a tiny plug symbol on top of the battery icon as it normally ALWAYS did when i "knew" that the power cord was plugged in
5. the taskbar was the first obvious place that i looked to check this, and in W7, possibly the ONLY place where you can find this information.
6. secondly, in the w7 control panel under "power meter", i could not find ANY place that indicated whether the power cord was plugged in or not.
7. when i would first plug in the power cord, a white light would appear on the computer in the battery section for 1/4 of a second; and after this, no light, just black. normally, there is ONLY two colors of lights, blue meaning "on", and orange meaning "off" or none.
8. it looked like i needed a new power cord was just about to get one. in fact, before i knew for sure, i thought that that was the problem for sure and almost just flat out got a new power cord, as this HAD to be the problem.
but now that i have had several days to think about it, i realized later that johnb35's "sys tray" must have meant "taskbar", but this did not make sense at the time because in the very last post that i had made to him (the first post of the topic), i had explained that i saw a symbol, meaning that i HAD looked on the taskbar and knew to look there, so obviously he must have meant the control panel i had thought.
kirk quote:
"an icon in the taskbar that looks EXACTLY the same as the icon that represents a different function that takes place."
and now that i thought about it, i now realize that the a battery symbol will always appear in the taskbar. and the 3 possibilities are:
1. a battery icon with a red "x" through it
2. a battery icon
3. a battery icon with a tiny plug on top of it.
and now i know that if the battery is not correctly inserted, that even though the power cord is plugged in, a battery icon with a tiny plug on top of it will NOT appear in the taskbar.
yes, i guess w7 didn't just come out as w8 is already here, so guess your right, rechnically -- it is just the first time that i started using it, what with the ending of the xp support.
thanks for the advice guys
yes, i am new to W7. by the way, does ANYBODY happen to know "how" to find out whether the power cord is plugged in in W7 besides the taskbar?
Captain Kirk
i'll have to remember to check that double check instead.
