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re: what abt the
Monday, December 6, 2004 at 6:55 am
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Posted by flatware (1 messages posted)

I had a similar problem – no explorer crash but system tray icons would randomly disappear. After poking around the system I found the following solution. In Windows XP, right click the taskbar and select Properties. Select the Taskbar tab and uncheck “Hide inactive icons”. I hope this helps.

On Thursday, December 11, 2003 at 3:15 pm, Rick wrote:
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>
>Having this same problem. System did not crash. It began to happen after the latest
>security upgrade from microsoft. I still get the Norton Antivirus an internet firewall
>icons each time I boot up but all the other ones disappeared. some of them come back
>once in a while but it is very erratic. They show up in the customize notifications
>as past items but are still running. Sure would like to find a fix.
>

Written in response to:: re: what abt the (Rick: Thursday, December 11, 2003 at 3:15 pm)

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re: what abt the (Sketchee: Sun, Dec 7, 2003, 9:57 pm)

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Missing tray icons (JKL: Tue, Sep 28, 2004, 3:33 am)

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re: what abt the (Mike: Wed, May 19, 2004, 7:26 am)

re: Explorer.exe (David Costello: Fri, May 21, 2004, 9:17 pm)

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re: what abt the (dns: Wed, Jun 30, 2004, 11:57 pm)

re: what abt the (James Burke: Fri, Sep 3, 2004, 3:34 am)

re: what abt the (flatware: Mon, Dec 6, 2004, 6:55 am)

re: what abt the (Bullish Bear: Sat, Jan 15, 2005, 3:28 pm)

re: what abt the (Looce: Tue, Feb 15, 2005, 4:00 pm)

re: what abt the (Jameilious: Mon, Jul 18, 2005, 12:21 am)

re: what abt the (Panther: Mon, Dec 29, 2003, 6:55 am)

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re: Same problems (Frank James: Tue, Feb 3, 2004, 6:48 pm)

re: Same problems (Lemur: Wed, Mar 10, 2004, 11:58 am)

re: Same problems (pete edwards: Sat, Mar 13, 2004, 2:35 am)

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Error 1002 (Hari: Fri, Feb 17, 2006, 11:36 pm)

re: Error 1002 (davidjoho: Sun, Nov 19, 2006, 9:25 am)

re: dissapearing icons and quick launch (Paul J.: Thu, Nov 30, 2006, 5:49 pm)

re: disappearing icons and quick launch (Merlin: Wed, Jun 13, 2007, 1:29 am)

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