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re: icons missing from system tray
Sunday, January 8, 2006 at 9:38 pm
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Posted by phil carlon (1 messages posted)

reloaded windows and icons missing in task tray...tried lots of ways to restore them but no joy...but this solution fixed it thanx phil

On Wednesday, February 5, 2003 at 5:33 am, PaulC wrote:
>OK, try this...
>
>- ctl+alt+del to get up task manager
>- click on "Processes" tab
>- highlight the "explorer" process
>- click "End Process"... this will stop your desktop.
>- click on "Applications" tab
>- click "New Task..."
>- Type "explorer" and click OK
>
>This will restart the explorer which manages the desktop. With me my icons returned!
>Could be something to do with the startup of explorer perhaps... just a thought.

Written in response to:: re: icons missing from system tray (PaulC: Wednesday, February 5, 2003 at 5:33 am)

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re: icons missing from system tray (Karel Spaas: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 at 3:31 am)

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re: icons missing from system tray (Critter: Thu, Oct 10, 2002, 12:06 am)

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re: icons missing from system tray (texfisk: Mon, Feb 3, 2003, 8:11 pm)

re: icons missing from system tray (Sean Burns: Wed, Feb 5, 2003, 1:34 am)

re: icons missing from system tray (PaulC: Wed, Feb 5, 2003, 4:36 am)

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re: icons missing from system tray (woppenhe: Mon, Feb 14, 2005, 10:12 pm)

re: icons missing from system tray (RockMTL: Thu, Feb 17, 2005, 12:26 am)

re: icons missing from system tray (Scott: Tue, Aug 2, 2005, 8:26 pm)

re: icons missing from system tray (Thom: Wed, Aug 3, 2005, 2:01 pm)

re: icons missing from system tray (phil carlon: Sun, Jan 8, 2006, 9:38 pm)

re: icons missing from system tray (Karel Spaas: Wed, Jan 11, 2006, 3:31 am)

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Solution (Christopher Burton: Tue, Jan 24, 2006, 6:03 pm)

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