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re: icons missing from system tray
Thursday, September 2, 2004 at 11:53 am
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Posted by Sasha (1 messages posted)

I had this same icon problem and then I tried this suggestion and it worked. Thanks a lot PaulC.

On Wednesday, February 5, 2003 at 5:33 am, PaulC wrote:
>OK, try this...
>
>- ctl+alt+del to get up task manager
>- click on "Processes" tab
>- highlight the "explorer" process
>- click "End Process"... this will stop your desktop.
>- click on "Applications" tab
>- click "New Task..."
>- Type "explorer" and click OK
>
>This will restart the explorer which manages the desktop. With me my icons returned!
>Could be something to do with the startup of explorer perhaps... just a thought.

Written in response to:: re: icons missing from system tray (PaulC: Wednesday, February 5, 2003 at 5:33 am)

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