re: icons missing from system tray
Friday, May 20, 2005 at 5:27 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by CAM
(6 messages posted)
Well I thought the NoTrayItemsDisplay registry setting was working, but pretty soon
icons started disappearing again on about half of my boots. I don't want to fiddle
around with solutions which only work some times, and nobody seems to have posted
that the below solution did not work for them, so I figured I'd try it.
It is working so far, knock on wood. If it stops working I'll try something else.
There must be a million people having the same problem, and they may stumble across
this thread eventually, so it would be nice to be able to say what really works or
not.
On Friday, April 29, 2005 at 4:35 am, anon wrote:
>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.
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>Navigate to the following key
>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify.
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>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.
>
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>Hope this helps. ;)
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