re: icons missing from system tray
Wednesday, February 15, 2006 at 6:34 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dave Burton
(2 messages posted)
On Sunday, February 12, 2006 at 7:24 pm, Dave Burton wrote:
} On Thursday, March 6, 2003 at 1:15 pm, Don wrote:
}} I've found another solution about this problem. You have to
}} remove setupapi.dll (for sound icon) from your windows folder.
}
} Setupapi.dll was in c:\windows\system32\ and also in
} c:\windows\system32\dllcache\ on this PC, and when
} I renamed it to *.bak in both places, Windows would no
} longer boot (it went into a reboot loop).
}
} -Dave
Fortunately, I keep a Bart PE CD (CD-bootable Windows
XP) handy, so I just booted from the CD and renamed
Setupapi.bak back to *.dll, and XP once again booted
correctly.
I think what happens that breaks the SysTray is that ONE
of the programs fails, and SysTray is too stupid to just
recover from it and do the rest. This is a common theme
in Windows. For example, if you have a damaged
registry entry for one of your hardware devices, Device
Manager might not show the other devices, either.
In my case, in the course of trying to resolve some virus
and spyware infections on this machine (it's not my
machine, BTW), I had disabled many things that I thought
were probably unnecessary. Since it is a desktop
machine, I didn't think it would need batmeter.dll, and I
had renamed it to *.bak. Big mistake! When I eventually
got around to renaming it back to *.dll, my volume
control icon came back to the SysTray (after a reboot).
-Dave
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