re: icons missing from system tray
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 11:36 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Erin
(2 messages posted)
Okay... so I tried a whole mess of stuff. First, under my belief that the registry
had problems, I downloaded (even paid for) the program Registry Booster. It did find
over 300 problems in my registry... and fixed them... wow. But- didn't fix the system
tray thing. Dang! (I'm still glad I bought it because overall my computer's running
faster now, but that's not so much the point of this thread.) Then started going
down the list of recommendations on this site. The following didn't get the system
tray to work correctly again, but it DID clear out all the weird icons and old crap
that was coming up under system tray customization. Thanks to whoever posted this:
Once even I had the same problem and i solved it by deleting a regitry key about
>systray icons. This problem occurs mostly because a registry key gets corrupted.
>
>Navigate to the following key
>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify.
>
>In the right pane delete the regbinary keys named 'iconstreams' and 'pasticonstream'.
>
>Close the regedit.
>press Ctrl+Alt+Del.
>In the processes find explorer.exe and click end it. This will make your desktop
>disappear.
>In the task manager, go to File->New task and type explorer.exe and press enter.
> This will restart your explorer and the desktop will appear.
>
>Now restart your comp immediately (this is important) without doing anything else.
>This process recreates the above deleted registry keys and all your icons are back.
>
>
>Hope this helps. ;)
Again, made things cleaner, but didn't fix the problem. Tried everything else on
here and everything that I knew how to involving the registry, none of it created
any noticeable changes. (And yes I backed up first.) Finally it came down to three
things: having to login to my account at startup, paying for software to delay programs
opening at startup, or the ol' SSDP and/or uPnP trick. I hid the uPnP icons and set
the SSDP to automatic (see how here: http://www.tech-pro.net/howto_013.html). Low
and behold, the simplest tasks seem to be the best. Now, I'm glad I did the rest
of the stuff- my computer seemed to sigh with relief to have some extra crud gone-
but so far it seems to be the SSDP and uPnP that work. We'll see how it continues.
And incidentally, I have a Gateway laptop that's about 8 months old (and Gateway
totally lies about their "friendly" customer service), with Windows XP SP2 and Norton
Anti-Virus.
By the way... anyone know if Windows Vista has this problem? Or does it even HAVE
a system tray?
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| | | |  | Solution (Christopher Burton: Tue, Jan 24, 2006, 6:03 pm) |
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