If a notebook runs Windows Vista, it will run Windows 7 (read our Windows 7 review) and it will get better battery life, promises Gabriel Aul of the Windows. Vista SP1 RC Arrives Next Week. I’ve already made the joke in the summary but Vista’s first. But we can expect to see improved laptop battery life. To find out I put together the same test I ran under OS X under a fresh install of Windows Vista x64 SP1. Of offering similar battery life under Vista to what.

Andrew, thanks for trying to help. I had configured both of these icons to always show, so I meant to imply that I know how to check for this setting. I should have specified that now those two items do not show up in the list of icons that I can show or hide. They are simply gone.

BTW: I have now un-installed SP1 and rebooted, but these two icons are still unavailable. I tried looking at the properties of these two devices, hoping to find a checkbox to expose the icon, but I'm finding no such solution. On other message boards, I have seen this problem solved by returning to a restore point, but I had to turn that service off a while back. I forgot to turn it back on, so a restore point is not available. Another solution posted is to re-install from my DVD.

I will do that as a last resort, but I can't believe no one knows a registry tweak, or driver upgrade, or some such.>> Andrew, thanks for trying to help.

> I had configured both of these icons to always show, so I meant to imply>that I know how to check for this setting.>> I should have specified that now those two items do not show up in the list>of icons that I can show or hide.