re: icons missing from system tray
Wednesday, October 27, 2004 at 7:12 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Peter Darton
(2 messages posted)
"Me too" - When I ran Windows Task Manager, I wasn't getting the little green square
that showed up CPU utilisation.
I followed the instructions to kill off those two services (in my case, only SSDP
was running), and hey presto, Task Manager works again!
> Maybe it is because of the security vulnerability in
> those two programs, which didn't have any effect
> until I turned on Norton Internet Security.
I don't have NIS here, but I was missing the icon until I disabled SSDP.
I do have Symantec antivirus, but all the firewalling here is done with hardware
firewalls - there's no firewalling done in software.
I'm not in a position to comment on whether or not this screw-up was introduced in
SP2 or not as our IT chap installed SP2 before handing me the machine.
I can, however, tell you that, on this PC at least (XP Pro, SP2 + a couple of hotfixes),
if I set the service "SSDP Discovery Service" to "Automatic" OR set it to "Manual"
and then start it manually, my "Windows Task Manager" icon fails to appear (unless
I'm very quick - it seems that it takes SSDP a few seconds to sabotage things)
In other words, I believe it's all down to this SSDP service (at least it is here
- I've seen other things on the web suggesting that this is not the only cause of
missing icons - icon presence seems to be fairly flakey)
> My wife's computer, which doesn't have NIS,
> doesn't have the icon problem.
But does it have SSDP disabled (or at least not started)?
If there's nothing that'll make SSDP start up, it won't cause the icon problem.
From the (very) brief description of the SSDP service, it looks aimed at networked
stuff, so if your wife's computer isn't networked, SSDP may not start up (and if
it is networked, you'd want firewall & anti-virus stuff on it...)
> Do all the people having this problem have NIS, or
> at least a modern firewall program?
We've got Symantec anti-virus here, doing file-scan stuff mainly - nothing in the
way of inbound or outbound network traffic on the desktop PCs.
Our firewall is a (seperate) PC running smoothwall.
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