Battery? What battery? The missing Windows 10 Battery Meter

For reasons I can't begin to imagine, the battery meter on my laptop disappeared from Windows 10's System Tray. A Google search revealed lots of complicated solutions, but the following worked like a charm for me:

From Device Manager

• Click drop down for "Batteries"
• Disable and re-enable
• AC Adapter
• ACPI Compliant Control Method Battery

Not a huge deal, but further erodes my faith in Windows 10, Microsoft, the software industry and perhaps humanity.

BTW, getting to Device Manager was a bit tricky because at regular intervals, I lose (at once):

• The start menu
• Context menus on icons in the Task Bar
• Context menus in the System Tray
• Availability of native Windows apps

What better way to say "We got your money, now we just don't care?"