(HP) Laptop Plugged in not Charging Battery (Windows 7)

Disconnect AC
Shutdown
Remove battery

Connect AC
Startup
Open Device Manager
Expand the batteries section, uninstall all "Microsoft ACPI Compliant Control Method Battery"
Expand system devices section
uninstall the “ACPI Fixed Features Button"

Shutdown
Disconnect AC
Insert battery
Connect AC
Startup

Windows 7 - How to recover lost or missing system tray icons?

1. Back up the Registry by creating a restore point.
2. Go to Start > Run (or Windows-key + R), type in regedit and hit OK.
3. Navigate to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify.
4. Delete the values IconStreams and PastIconsStream.
5. Open up the Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc), go to the Processes tab, select explorer.exe and click End Process.
6. Open the Applications tab and click New Task at the bottom-right of the window.
7. In the message box that pops up type in explorer.exe and hit OK.
8. Explorer.exe will reload, and the missing icons should now be back in the system-tray where they belong.

Create Test Company in Sage Manufacturing

Copy your company accdata folder to another location say C:\Test\.
Browse to C:\Programdata\Sage\Accounts\v2012

Then edit the company file with notepad & add the C:\Test to the list of folders.

The test data will now appear when you next run Sage Manufacturing