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icons missing from system tray
Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm
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Posted by Louis (2 messages posted)

When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not -- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, so I know that's not the issue.

Responses to this message:
re: icons missing from system tray (jcw: Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 10:52 pm)

re: icons missing from system tray (Critter: Thursday, October 10, 2002 at 12:06 am)

re: icons missing from system tray (HC: Thursday, October 10, 2002 at 1:01 pm)

re: icons missing from system tray (Louis: Thursday, October 10, 2002 at 4:26 pm)

re: icons missing from system tray (Peter: Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 1:18 am)

re: icons missing from system tray (Sean Burns: Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 3:05 am)

re: icons missing from system tray (Don: Friday, February 14, 2003 at 12:25 am)

re: icons missing from system tray (The Pope: Saturday, August 14, 2004 at 2:55 pm)

re: icons missing from system tray (cbgerry: Sunday, October 10, 2004 at 11:46 pm)

re: icons missing from system tray (PCM: Saturday, November 13, 2004 at 12:46 am)

re: icons missing from system tray (Paul Sterbentz: Thursday, December 2, 2004 at 5:38 pm)

re: icons missing from system tray (jk3000: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 at 9:23 pm)

re: icons missing from system tray (Marco: Monday, January 17, 2005 at 10:33 am)

re: icons missing from system tray (Armada: Saturday, February 5, 2005 at 11:40 pm)

re: icons missing from system tray (Drewe: Tuesday, March 1, 2005 at 6:35 pm)

re: icons missing from system tray (JS Dowker: Thursday, March 24, 2005 at 1:20 am)

re: icons missing from system tray (rm: Friday, April 15, 2005 at 10:36 pm)

re: icons missing from system tray (anon: Friday, April 29, 2005 at 4:53 am)

re: icons missing from system tray (Mark: Monday, May 9, 2005 at 3:33 pm)

re: icons missing from system tray (Paul: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 at 4:52 pm)

re: icons missing from system tray (Dan: Friday, August 5, 2005 at 10:32 am)

re: icons missing from system tray (robert: Monday, August 15, 2005 at 1:46 pm)

re: icons missing from system tray (Steven: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 at 1:53 am)

re: icons missing from system tray (Gerry: Monday, November 21, 2005 at 1:20 pm)

re: icons missing from system tray (meh: Friday, February 17, 2006 at 7:52 pm)

re: icons missing from system tray (Michael Dubar: Thursday, February 23, 2006 at 6:06 am)

re: icons missing from system tray (Greg Hudson: Tuesday, March 7, 2006 at 7:02 pm)

re: icons missing from system tray (John: Friday, April 21, 2006 at 4:17 pm)

icons appear and disappear (adi: Monday, May 8, 2006 at 11:17 pm)

re: icons missing from system tray (Stephen Wright: Thursday, March 29, 2007 at 6:20 am)

new solution - not listed above (Brian Ulrich: Sunday, February 24, 2008 at 9:06 pm)

Here's why and how to solve it (Spexx: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 10:36 pm)

re: icons missing from system tray (tverberg: Friday, August 8, 2008 at 1:51 am)