re: icons missing from system tray
Friday, October 21, 2005 at 6:10 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Brent
(3 messages posted)
I think we can all agree that this is a Microsoft bug and that it is annoying to
have to "bandaid" something that Microsoft shoud fix.
That being said, the general thought on this forum are that this is related to Win
XP booting too fast and/or conflicts with UPnP.
Why spend time trying to think of ways to delay startup or dissable services that
have other uses....why not just force you system tray to load and leave this issue
behind?
Hope this helps...
Bottom line is that you want your system tray to run at startup....system tray includes
the windows sound icon, network connections, power monitor etc.
PLEASE CREATE RESTORE POINT NOW!!!!
If you mess up at any point just restore to this restore point and start again
NOTE: Don't type in the quotes when entering data below.
None of this will affect third party applications running in your computer's system
tray as systray.exe and the others are independent.
Run the window registry editor (START, RUN, regedit)
You need to create a new String Value called "systray" in:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Then give in the value: "C:\WINDOWS\system32\systray.exe"
To do all this:
1. START, RUN, type "regedit", hit enter
2. Once in the Registry Editor, navigate the left directory tree to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
3. Then right click on the right window pane, click new, then string value.
4. Give the new string value the name "systray"
5. Your new value should now have the name "systray", the type "REG_SZ", and no data.
6. Right click on your new "systray" value and click "modify".
7. Now give "systray" the value data: "C:\WINDOWS\system32\systray.exe"
8. Click ok and close the Registry Editor.
9. Restart your computer.
You should now have your systray back at boot.
Hope this helps.
Email me if anybody gets stuck.
Brent
CANADA
On Wednesday, October 19, 2005 at 1:34 am, Peter Brown wrote:
>I discovered my systray icons disappeared when I turned off 'show desktop icons'
>on my desktop - when I turned this back on again my systray icons reappeared !
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| | | |  | Solution (Christopher Burton: Tue, Jan 24, 2006, 6:03 pm) |
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