re: icons missing from system tray
Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 5:55 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by CAM
(6 messages posted)
Thank you, Asa, for proving that there's life in this thread yet. Having had my
hopes built up and dashed with the NoTrayItemsDisplay setting and again with the
TrayNotify setting, I was thinking of giving up.
Your post reminded me that several earlier posts reccommended disabling UPnP and
SSDP in services. I hadn't tried that before because some people said they didn't
want to not have plug-and-play working, a feeling which I also share, and also because
a lot of people said it didn't solve their problem, so I figured why bother if it
doesn't work anyway.
Looking into it a little it turns out that UPnP and SSDP apparently not only don't
have anything to do with the ordinary plug-and-play, they seem to be involved with
opening a port to make your machine act as a network server, which poses a security
vulnerability.
Not only do I not need my machine to function as a server, I have a third-party firewall
running so UPnP and SSDP shouldn't work anyway even if they are active on the system.
With nothing to lose, I disabled them in services.
So what happened to my system tray icons? You may guess that they still don't all
appear. After a few boots I can say that I am losing less of them and the ones I
do lose aren't really ones I need to have, so this may be progress. On the other
hand I have a feeling I thought the same thing about the previous two fixes I tried
before realizing that it sometimes actually does lose icons I want.
What's next? Could try one of those utilities that delays startup of things, but
I would hate to make the boot process any slower than it already is. Sigh.
On Wednesday, June 15, 2005 at 5:05 pm, Asa wrote:
>I've had this problem for a while, but it's been worse lately.
>
>I tried the recent suggestion of deleting those binary TrayIcon registry keys, and
>the other steps associated. It didn't work, so I restored those keys (which I saved
>first).
>
>Then I tried going to My Network Places and chose Hide uPNP Devices. THIS WORKED!
> It also seems like it boots faster.
>
>I use some software that uses upnp to open ports on my router, so I didn't want
to
>disable it completely.
>
>Interesting note:
>my router used to show up in My Network Places. I noticed it was not there anymore
>before I chose to Hide upnp devices. If I then choose Show upnp devices, it appears
>immediately, but after a reboot my router is gone from My Network Places even tho
>it's set to show it.
>
>This makes me think that there may be a problem related to upnp on my system...
possibly
>resulting in the icon problem when upnp is set to show devices...
>
>I may investigate how to uninstall and reinstall as much of the network stuff as
>possible (later).
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