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re: what abt the
Friday, November 14, 2003 at 12:24 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by jcw
(5092 messages posted)
I don't recall anything specifically about a general bug in Windows as you describe,
but the trick then is to stop your crashes back to the desktop. Returning to the
Event Viewer, there should be more info (so-called "error signature") about the error:
source, category, event ID, and description. I assume you getting no BSODs?
On Thursday, November 13, 2003 at 9:35 pm, aditya wrote:
>nope, they are not hidden. If explorer crashes, many of my systray icons just disapear.
>as for the administrative tools, all it says is that the shell stopped unexpectedly
>and explorer.exe was restarted.
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>Ona side note, thi appears to be a general bug in windows, from whiat i found out.
>It seems that when explorer crashes, windows requests the applicatios running to
>redraw the systray icons (that is if windows requests, maybe the application has
>to check). However, many apps fail to do so, like windvd and so many others that
>all i can say is barely any support it. This is highly annoying, some processes
may
>be minimised but it may be critical to gauge their progress, but there is no possible
>way to do so unless u restart it.
>
>If anybody could tell an alternative method toredraw the icons, please let me know.
>I am not interested in traysavers and such, any other ay?
>
>
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