re: icons missing from system tray
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 6:33 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Erin
(2 messages posted)
Okay, just incase anyone's still reading this forum...
Raptor, I too noticed that when I go into customizing hidden icons, probably almost
30 things are listed, their icons are messed up, and half of them are for programs
that I uninstalled long ago. Ugh.
I've been dealing with this problem for ages, mostly just putting up with it... finally
got fed up and chatted with Gateway help, who told me the only solution was to wipe
the hard drive and start over, which I found APPALLING and said so, that there must
be something else to do, and they said no and then tried to kick me off the chat
as quickly as possible, which I found even more appalling. So much for their "friendly
tech support..." riiight.
So faced with starting over from scratch I started an internet search of my own and
found this site. Having just found it, I haven't tried any of the fixes yet (except
the band-aid of logging off and logging back on, which worked but of course isn't
permanent). But I notice Raptor's the only one to mention the messed up icons, which
to me says this is a registry problem just as much as a timing problem. The system
tray stuff won't load unless you give it ample time, that seems to be a determining
factor for many people; but why does it need so much time? In my case, it seems that
it needs time because it's busy trying to find like 28 programs that AREN'T THERE.
And for some people, maybe it just gives up. So my first plan is to check out the
registry and see if I can clean stuff up... I definitely don't need 3 icons for AOL
messenger trying to start when it isn't even on my computer anymore... and I don't
want a band-aid, I want this SOLVED.
I'll update if it works... wish me luck!
On Wednesday, December 1, 2004 at 12:38 am, Raptor wrote:
>I'm exactly in the same situation here. After installing McAfee Virusscan Enterprise
>8.0, I noticed that most of my system tray icons were gone after rebooting. So I
>started googling and came across this thread.
>For me, the trick with disabling UPnP and SSDP doesn't work. The services were not
>even running in the first place.
>What I did notice however, is that when I go to the taskbar configuration where
you
>can set whether the icons should be hidden or not, the history of the icons shows
>all icons wrong! Most of them have the image of a folder instead of their normal
>icon. Others do have a normal icon but the wrong one (e.g. Mozilla shows the icon
>of the iTouch logitech app).
>Maybe this is related, maybe not. BTW, I already had a similar problem with wrong
>icons being displayed in the installed applications list when you go to Add/Remove
>Programs, and that on multiple PCs. Also never found what was the cause (not that
>I did a thorough investigation).
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