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re: dissapearing icons and quick launch
Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 5:49 pm
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Posted by Paul J. (7 messages posted)

When explorer crashes, Some icons don't come back in the systray (notification area) and the quick launch toolbar disappears. To recover all icons log off and back on. Or use a program like 12 Ghosts Tray Protect. Quick launch can be restarted through the taskbar properties menu. (this is annoying) is there a way to automatically restart quick launch when explorer restarts (and put it where you want it, left side, right side, autohide, etc.)? Also, is there a freeware program that restores all systray (notification area) icons after explorer restarts? Or some other registry tweak. I've used the SSDP UPPD kill fix but this problem still occurs sometimes. Logging off and back on ends all applications so it is not the preferred solution to dissappearing tray icons, just the only easy one i've run into. Thanks to all who read and respond to this thread. I'm using Windows XP Pro with SP1 and I'm not using NIS. Also, I don't have any problems with icons not showing up after a reboot. For problems like that, try using VIS Boot or StartDelay. Thanks again. PAJ

On Sunday, November 19, 2006 at 9:25 am, davidjoho wrote:
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>I've been able to restore my icons and the taskbar by using Windows Task Manager
>(the thing you get by doing a Control-Alt-Delete).
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>Under the Applications tab, close all instances of Explorer.
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>Under the Processes tab, select anything in the Image Name column called "Explorer"
>and right click to get the "End Process" choice. End the process.
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>Now, under the File menu choice, choose "New Task (Run)" and type in "explorer."
>Press the Ok button.
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>Works for me.
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