System Enable or Disable Show Battery Percentage on Taskbar in Windows 11


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This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off displaying the battery percentage on the taskbar for your account in Windows 11.

By default, you can always check your PC's battery status and more when you hover over the battery icon in the taskbar system tray.

Starting with Windows 11 build 26120.3000 (Dev), Microsoft is introducing new and improved battery icons in Windows 11. These icons have been designed to communicate battery status of your PC with just a quick glance. Key changes include colored icons to indicate charging states, simplified overlays that don’t block the progress bar, and an option to turn on battery percentage.

When your battery icon is green, this shows that your PC is charging and in a good state. A yellow battery icon will let you know that your PC using battery in energy saving mode – this automatically happens when your battery is less than or equal to 20% to preserve power. When the battery icon is red, you have a critically low battery and should plug in your PC as soon as possible. You will see these new battery icons on the taskbar in the system tray, in the quick settings flyout, and in Settings. The new battery icons will begin showing on the Lock screen in a future flight.

Along with the updates to the battery icon, Microsoft is also introducing the ability to show your battery percentage next to the battery icon in the system tray.

Microsoft is beginning to roll this out to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel, so the experience isn’t available to all Insiders just yet as Microsoft plans to monitor feedback before pushing it out to everyone.




Contents

  • Option One: Turn On or Off Show Battery Percentage on Taskbar in Settings
  • Option Two: Turn On or Off Show Battery Percentage on Taskbar using REG file


EXAMPLE: Show battery percentage on taskbar with icon in black, yellow, and green to indicate different charging states

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Option One

Turn On or Off Show Battery Percentage on Taskbar in Settings


1 Open Settings (Win+I).

2 Click/tap on System on the left side, and click/tap on Power & battery on the right side. (see screenshot below)


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3 Turn on or off (default) Battery percentage for what you want. (see screenshot below)

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4 You can now close Settings if you like.




Option Two

Turn On or Off Show Battery Percentage on Taskbar using REG file


1 Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you want.

2 Turn On Show Battery Percentage on Taskbar

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.​

Turn_ON_show_battery_percentage_on_taskbar.reg


(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"IsBatteryPercentageEnabled"=dword:00000001

3 Turn Off Show Battery Percentage on Taskbar

This is the default setting.


A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.​

Turn_OFF_show_battery_percentage_on_taskbar.reg


(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"IsBatteryPercentageEnabled"=dword:00000000

4 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.


That's it,
Shawn Brink


 

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This didn't work, probably because I am not on the insider build?
 

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This didn't work, probably because I am not on the insider build?

Hello, :alien:

Correct. This feature is currently only available in the Dev channel for Insiders.
 

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Hello, :alien:

Correct. This feature is currently only available in the Dev channel for Insiders.
Yeah I just read that also in your post. Whelp... Sorry.
 

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    Windows 11 Pro x3
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Asus / Asus / Asus
    CPU
    i9-14900K / i9-14900HX / AMD Z1E
    Motherboard
    Asus Apex Encore / Asus G16 (2024) / ROG Ally X
    Memory
    64 GSkill / 64 Gskill / 24
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA 3080 Ultra FTW 3 / 4070 Mobile / Z1E
    Sound Card
    Logitech G Pro
    Screen Resolution
    2560 x 1080 / 2560 x 1600 / 1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    990 pro 4 TB, 4x 980 1TB, 980 pro 2TB

My Computers

System One System Two

  • OS
    Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Custom self build
    CPU
    Intel i7-8700K 5 GHz
    Motherboard
    ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390
    Memory
    64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz (F4-3600C18D-32GTZR)
    Graphics Card(s)
    ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING (11GB GDDR5X)
    Sound Card
    Integrated Digital Audio (S/PDIF)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 x Samsung Odyssey G75 27"
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1440
    Hard Drives
    1TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2,
    4TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2,
    8TB WD MyCloudEX2Ultra NAS
    PSU
    Seasonic Prime Titanium 850W
    Case
    Thermaltake Core P3 wall mounted
    Cooling
    Corsair Hydro H115i
    Keyboard
    Logitech wireless K800
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Master 3
    Internet Speed
    1 Gbps Download and 35 Mbps Upload
    Browser
    Google Chrome
    Antivirus
    Microsoft Defender and Malwarebytes Premium
    Other Info
    Logitech Z625 speaker system,
    Logitech BRIO 4K Pro webcam,
    HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdn,
    CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD
    Galaxy S23 Plus phone
  • Operating System
    Windows 11 Pro
    Computer type
    Laptop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Surface Laptop 7 Copilot+ PC
    CPU
    Snapdragon X Elite (12 core) 3.42 GHz
    Memory
    16 GB LPDDR5x-7467 MHz
    Monitor(s) Displays
    15" HDR
    Screen Resolution
    2496 x 1664
    Hard Drives
    1 TB SSD
    Internet Speed
    Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4
    Browser
    Chrome and Edge
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender
Love that you include info on how to do this with the registry, makes scripting a lot easier!
 

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You can try checking if the battery feature is hidden on your current release:
Code:
vivetool /enable /id:48822452,48433719

 

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