re: icons missing from system tray
Friday, February 14, 2003 at 12:25 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Don
(4 messages posted)
The alternate answer: SysTrayHack!
Simple to use, just add it to your startup group, or configure your shell to launch
it automatically on startup, and you're good to go.
http://desktopian.org/addons/systray2kfix.zip
A common problem for folks using any shell other than explorer with Win2k, is the
'missing tray icons' incompatibility (system-level tray icons strangely fail to
appear when any shell but explorer is running). But, main, the developer of the Graphite
shell managed to track it down and nail the issue under Graphite, and now his fix
has been massaged into shape to work with any shell, in the form of 'SysTrayHack,
an item tossed together by LS devteam member Joachim Calvert/NeXTer.
Copy & Paste: (from http://www.desktopian.org/appsi_comp.html)
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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