re: icons missing from system tray
Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 1:18 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Peter
(5 messages posted)
Well I finally fixed it on my computer, we'll see if it works for you all.. Get a
program called RegCleaner. start it up and go to the startup tab, for me it was
showing Desktop loading twice one of the instances was (common user) the other was
not named, I deleted the common user instance, after creating a restore point ;p
After that when I restarted it not only finished booting quicker but all the icons
were loaded properly into the notification area.
On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote:
>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.
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 |  | re: icons missing from system tray (Peter: Thu, Feb 6, 2003, 1:18 am) |
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | .... (mike: Tue, Nov 14, 2006, 9:11 pm) |
 |  |  |  |  | Solution (Christopher Burton: Tue, Jan 24, 2006, 6:03 pm) |
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