Greetings!

I have had this problem too and 2 of my icons (sound and battery meter) appears and 
disappears randomly. I've tried many of the suggested solutions discussed on this 
forum and some of them worked.

Nonetheless, I've come to realized that these solutions are only temporary. Who knows 
one day you might need to turn back on the UPnP and SSDC you disabled?

I've found myself a better solution. That is to turn the login mode to windows classic. 
CTRL PANEL --> User accounts --> Change the way users login and out (or something 
like that)

Requiring a password at startup kinda gives UPnP and SSDC time to initialize before 
the systray loads up when entering windows.

Hope his helps!
PCM


P.S. I've searched all over the internet and this forum is the only relavant help 
I found. So I guess I just contribute a little on my part to keep this community 
going.







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.