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
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)
3 Turn on or off (default) Battery percentage for what you want. (see screenshot below)
4 You can now close Settings if you like.
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
Download
(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
Download
(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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