I have a question about Refresh the Desktop without Restarting Windows:

It works but it drops the running app from the tray... How can I restore the icon to the tray

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that's just what happens when explorer is killed and restarted. havn't found a way to get the icons in the system tray to return without restarting windows.

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I must say I'm surprised to see solution #2 there. That's just plain bad advice, as you have discovered.

Paul D

On Sunday, November 4, 2001 at 5:06 am, Vernon wrote:
>I have a question about Refresh
>the Desktop without Restarting Windows:

>
>It works but it drops the running app from the tray...
>How can I restore the icon to the tray
>
> Sometimes when I turn on computor I have only part of my icons apprearing on my desktop and much of the listings on my start menue are gone, other times when I turn on my computer this is not a problem and everything is back to normal, also when this does happen everything on my screen is very tiny even my start menu what I Have left of it anyway,I shutdown properly.

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for your problem you need to run the repair on IE on all desktop including the default 
desktop the default desktop is the desktop you get when you depress the cancel button 
when you logon if you are using a mutli-user platform... I have found this to be 
a problem when I create a new desktop because IE doesn't write the registry correctly 
when you install it....

I have started a web site for puter tune up you can read about it there the pages 
are just notes right now adding the bells as I go I have found a few programs that 
will restore the icon's in the tray after you restart the explorer desktop but if 
the programs have a few lines of code that says this app can ony have on instance 
 it look like an error but is not,,, just bad for my users to see... even though 
you restart the explorer the programs are still running you just loose the icon in 
the tray.. unless it was the problem program... the explorer is just a program that 
runs on top of windows just like any other program... it what let you manuver around 
the puter with the mouse. it is just an input area.. no big deal if it gets reset 
--- you can reset it now if you want just go ctrl alt del and end task explorer you 
will get the log off screen just wait a few and the end task screen will come up 
click end task and the explorer will restart...

here is my page
Click here





On Wednesday, November 28, 2001 at 5:07 pm, Cathy Stroud wrote:
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>On Sunday, November 4, 2001 at 5:06 am, Vernon wrote:

>I have a question about Refresh 


>the Desktop without Restarting Windows:


>

>It works but it drops the running app from the tray...

>How can I restore the icon to the tray 

>

>
>Sometimes when I turn on computor I have only part of my icons apprearing on my 
desktop 
>and much of the listings on my start menue are gone, other times when I turn on 
my 
>computer this is not a problem and everything is back to normal, also when this 
does 
>happen everything on my screen is very tiny even my start menu what I  Have left 
>of it anyway,I shutdown properly. 

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I disagree somewhat. If all you want to do is refresh your desktop, then no, endtasking and restarting explorer (which is in effect "crashing" it I believe) is probably not your wisest choice. However, I have found that occasionally (in 98) explorer just starts to "act up". At these times a nice reload of explorer is just the trick.

As far as the systray goes (and I am merely speculating), I dont believe you can restore the icons. The systray is reloaded with explorer, and the icons were "placed" there by their applications. However, these applications dont watch to make sure their systray icons are still there. Once they are lost, they are lost.

Try re-running such open applications. Some are written to recognize existing instances and may replace the systray icon (ICQ and WinAmp do this I believe). Or if you can, simply shutdown (or endtask) those applications and run them again. Many agents that were running there can be found in the StartUp folder of the StartMenu, or the startup keys in the registry (HCU|HLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run|RunOnce|RunServices|RunServicesOnce/).

- Two-Bits

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>It works but it drops the running app from the tray...
>How can I restore the icon to the tray
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I know it's not an ideal solution, but why don't you create a folder on your desktop (or on the start menu) that you can add shortcuts to the programs that are run from the startup registry keys? You could then just run them one at a time until they are all running again.


On Sunday, November 4, 2001 at 5:06 am, Vernon wrote:
>I have a question about Refresh
>the Desktop without Restarting Windows:

>
>It works but it drops the running app from the tray...
>How can I restore the icon to the tray
>
>

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When Explorer crashes or you END TASK it, it should automatically restart.  But as 
this discussion has covered, not all your systray icons are going to come back.





On my machine, the following come back nicely:

Yahoo Messenger
AOL Instant Messenger
ICQ
Microsoft Messenger
Analog X's MaxMem

The following are chronically disappearing on me and needed to be "found" or END 
TASKed so I can get their icons to show back up in the systray.

ePrompter
Bulletproof FTP

I couldn't find a program to just show all windows and make them visible/active, 
so I pulled up WinBatch (since I knew it had a script command to do it) and wrote 
a little script.

This script is VERY unpolished, but if you're like me and end up with things still 
running, but unaccessible that you need to pull back to the front and do something 
with before you exit/close/END TASK them, then this script should help.

There are two versions, one that should work on anyone's machine (dunno about different 
versions of Windows, works fine on Win98), and a 'smaller' script that requires WinBatch 
script interpreting DLL's on your machine.  I don't know why I bother with both versions, 
the one is like 100k and the other 300k.  I'm sure this program could be done in 
like 20k by a real programmer.  But I'm not a real programmer, so oh well.

Again, it's super unpolished. It gives a list of ALL windows, regardless of whether 
you're ever supposed to see them or not.  Many will not come to the front even witht 
his program.  The output is totally non-sorted or anything.   In the future I may 
polish it.  But not right now.  I just knew I could do this in 2 seconds and it might 
be useful for someone out there.

Hope this helps someone.  Feel free to email me if you have any questions.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/tgryffyn23/temp/SHOWWIN.ZIP

Gryffyn





On Sunday, November 4, 2001 at 5:06 am, Vernon wrote:
>I have a question about Refresh 
>the Desktop without Restarting Windows:

>
>It works but it drops the running app from the tray...
>How can I restore the icon to the tray 
>
>

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If you have lost the icons on the desktop, just open the task manager, by ctrl+alt+del just once, then go to process and terminate explorer.exe, this will close or shut your desktop....to bring it back, just ctrl+alt+del once more, and on the task manager, go to file....new task....and type explorer or explorer.exe this will restore your desktop, sometimes this helps to boost your pc when the pcs has been running slow due to ram ..... hope it solves your problem...!! Cheers!!


On Sunday, November 4, 2001 at 10:14 am, amaralliya e. thenardier wrote:
>that's just what happens when explorer is killed and restarted. havn't found a way
>to get the icons in the system tray to return without restarting windows.

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