re: icons missing from system tray
Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 6:23 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Mack Alexander
(1 messages posted)
I worked on this problem for a month and finally resolved it completely. How many
of you with this problem are using an autologin? I went back to entering my login
password and that fixed the problem for ever. As mentioned earlier, I think it is
a timing problem, but this does work.
On Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 5:55 am, CAM wrote:
>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.
>
>
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