re: Question: How to restore systray icons after Explorer crashes
Wednesday, February 25, 2004 at 2:07 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by cjard
(1 messages posted)
>1) does anyone know how to recover the missing systray icons after a Windows Explorer
>crash where the desktop is restored automatically but systray icons are not, and
the systray icons are not restored because explorer/systray.exe cant get to them.
apps are notified in the event of an explorer crash, but only a select few redraw
their icons properly. you can pay some $ for an app that hooks into the system tray
and watches everything that's put in there (to be honest, systray should do this)
- that app can then restore the icons.
or, if all you want is to access the main window again, you can use a freeware app
i just made for myself:
http://www.lexpos.com/pers.matt/WinPop3.zip
you type some text that is the start of the window text (example: this window text
is "Annoyances.org - Reply to message...." so just typing Annoyances (case sensitive))
and pressing [pop!], should pop the window to the front, hidden or not
for apps that dont redraw the icon, the proggie keeps a list of all the windows you
popped, double click a list entry and it will pop that window again
>
>2) does anyone have know what in networking might be causing the crashes in the
first
>place? (I tried recreating my network from scratch using the Windows wizard, but
>it didn't help).
irq conflict or wrong driver for your network card. replace the card/move to another
pci slot/update driver
>
>
>
|
All messages in this thread [show all]
 |  | re: Question: How to restore systray icons after Explorer crashes (cjard: Wed, Feb 25, 2004, 2:07 pm) |
| |
| |
| |
Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum
|
|
