re: icons missing from system tray
Friday, April 29, 2005 at 4:53 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by anon
(8 messages posted)
Once even I had the same problem and i solved it by deleting a regitry key about
systray icons. This problem occurs mostly because a registry key gets corrupted.
Navigate to the following key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify.
In the right pane delete the regbinary keys named 'iconstreams' and 'pasticonstream'.
Close the regedit. press Ctrl+Alt+Del. In the processes find explorer.exe and click
end it. This will make your desktop disappear. In the task manager, go to File->New
task and type explorer.exe and press enter. This will restart your explorer and the
desktop will appear. Now restart your comp immediately (this is important) without
doing anything else. This process recreates the above deleted registry keys and all
your icons are back. Hope this helps. ;)
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.
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