re: icons missing from system tray
Tuesday, December 13, 2005 at 5:42 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Philip
(2 messages posted)
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this - I am yet another person suffering
this infuriating problem. I think for me using the early tip of 'log-off and on again'
(which works for me ) is just fine. anyway what I wanted to add to the melting pot
was the observation that I have read, on the well-respected Gibson Research Corp
site, that it is a positively good thing to disable UPnP for security reasons. That's
quite an old observation by them, but they haven't taken it down, so perhaps its'
still valid even post-SP2. For what it's worth ,the link is http://www.grc.com/freepopular.htm
---- Philip
On Friday, December 9, 2005 at 3:14 pm, Mike Newhall wrote:
> Thank you! I have spent hours trying everything and only your (Kelly's) solution
>worked. I should point out some things I learned that may not be obvious:
>
>1. The Task Manager CPU meter icon missing is a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PROBLEM than
>all the other people's icon problems, and has nothing to do with UPnP or startup
>timing.
>
>2. I noticed that the Task Manager problem only appears in the Classic Style, and
>switching to the Windows XP Style always solved it. This didn't help me because
>I can't stand the XP style...
>
> Also, just to summarize a clarification mentioned elsewhere, UPnP is *not* the
>same thing as Plug & Play, which is about hardware and has been around since Windows
>95. UPnP is new with WinXP and is about Windows discovering network devices automatically.
> You can safely turn it off and still have hardware installations work as before.
> You may even want to since UPnP can be a source of security and other problems.
> For example, when I recently installed XP again, XP silently and cheerfully found
>my new UPnP router and RECONFIGURED IT. Voila, no more Internet. Only took five
>hours or so to figure that one out. Thanks, Windows Development Team!
>
>
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