Keyboard/Mouse battery icon????

My TouchSmart 600-1055 uses HP's wireless keyboard and mouse. The computer runs Windows7. There is no mouse or keyboard icon in the system tray, so there is no way to see the state of the battery charge on the mouse or keyboard. Windows7 is supposed to be able to monitor the battery charge of wireless keyboards and mice. I checked to see if an icon is available using the "customize" option for the system tray. There is no option listed.
Is this something unique to TouchSmart computers running under Windows7? Is there a fix for this issue? I'd sure like to know when my mouse or keyboard are about to run out of juice! Seems to me that this is an essential piece of information for a computer than runs with battery operated wireless keyboard and mouse!!
Is there an HP or Microsoft fix available???
Saul

maro444 wrote:
anyway I have HP TouchSmart iq508d, and i just upgraded it to Windows 7, but i have 2 issues:
1- is the same issue here, which is the mouse/keyboard battery level indicators are nor shown (i did your solution, but during the installation i got an error meesage saying 'the system doesn't meet the operation system reuirement.update is canceleed (9997)')...I hope you can help me regarding this
2- the second is, the side volume buttons are doing nothing, I was wondering how to fix it
The posted files for Win7 upgraded IQ5xx and IQ8xx machines in regards to the OSD/ACPI/Buttons don't work, this has been a problem since they were released. Some folks get better results by going back and installing the Vista drivers for the OSD/ACPI/Buttons. (this is for IQ5xx and IQ8xx upgraded machines NOT the 300/600 series that ship with Win7 from the factory)
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