Reloading Battery Bar

[metril]

I closed my Battery Bar toolbar (non-floating one). On restart, it did not appear again. How do I get it to start up again?

[Chris]

Windows only re-enables toolbars on startup that were on when the computer was shutdown. To manually re-enable the bar, right-click on the taskbar, go to Toolbars, and choose BatteryBar.

I'm thinking about updating the installer to add a startup shortcut to automatically restart the toolbar.

[orka]

I keep loosing BatteryBar after reboot for some reason, it happened already twice during past week. I have to reinstall it over again to get it working.
And it happens only after last update, never happened on previous BatteryBar versions.

[Chris]

Are you sure that you need to reinstall it to get it to work? Have you tried the steps to simply reactivate the toolbar?

1. Right-click on the taskbar
2. Go to toolbars
3. Select BatteryBar

What happens what you do that?

Do you have the "Hide BatteryBar when battery is fully charged" option turned on? If so, that's the issue. If the battery is charged when you shut down, the toolbar is closed and will stay closed.

[orka]

Well, i didn't think about that so i didn't try, if that happens next time i will.

And no, "hide option" is not turned on. This started to happen only after last update.

[Chris]

Did you install the 3.4.3 update? There is a change to the installer that adds a command to force BatteryBar to turn on whenever the computer is started (for the user account that installed it).

[orka]

You mean the new updated that showed up today?
Yes, I installed it and now wattage (charge/discharge) is not shown in that small indicator.

Before when i click on it there were 3 choices (time left, % left and wattage) now only 2, wattage is gone.

[Chris]

I posted a full explanation about that here:

http://osirisdevelopment.com/forum/thread-185.html