re: icons missing from system tray Friday, February 23, 2007 at 12:53 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Andrew (3 messages posted) The solution to this annoyance is simple: When you power on your computer, WAIT 1-2 minutes before logging on to allow Windows to load all of the start-up programs. Just WAIT and WATCH your LED (at least 90 seconds to be on the safe side) until it stops flashing. Then just log on, and voila! This works for me 100% of the time! I remember Windows98SE doing the same thing. Forget all that other stuff, this seems to work and it is so simple! :) On Sunday, October 24, 2004 at 5:00 pm, Basil Clarke wrote: >My system tray icons come and go. The most awkward is the frequent non-appearance >of the icons for HandStory and Anapod, since they're needed for controlling the programs. > This seems to have started since I installed SP2. Another person has suggested >that the problem is that Windows doesn't have time to load them all. > > > Written in response to: re: icons missing from system tray (Basil Clarke: Sunday, October 24, 2004 at 5:00 pm) Responses to this message: re: icons missing from system tray (Tom: Saturday, March 10, 2007 at 8:26 am) All messages in this thread [show all] icons missing from system tray (Louis: Wed, Oct 9, 2002, 9:48 pm) re: icons missing from system tray (jcw: Wed, Oct 9, 2002, 10:52 pm) re: icons missing from system tray (Critter: Thu, Oct 10, 2002, 12:06 am) re: icons missing from system tray (HC: Thu, Oct 10, 2002, 1:01 pm) re: icons missing from system tray (Louis: Thu, Oct 10, 2002, 4:26 pm) re: icons missing from system tray (texfisk: Wed, Jan 29, 2003, 9:21 am) re: icons missing from system tray (Bob: Sun, Feb 2, 2003, 10:50 pm) 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: 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(mike: Tue, Nov 14, 2006, 9:11 pm) re: Clear out prefetch\systray.exe (Len Philpot: Thu, Nov 16, 2006, 7:56 am) re: Similar issue . . . icons missing from system tray (Gabriel Lozano-Morán: Wed, Nov 15, 2006, 10:43 pm) re: icons missing from system tray (Brock: Mon, Feb 17, 2003, 9:57 pm) re: icons missing from system tray (Josh: Sun, Feb 23, 2003, 11:50 pm) re: icons missing from system tray (Jordan: Fri, Jun 25, 2004, 3:58 pm) re: icons missing from system tray (Steve Brown: Sat, Oct 16, 2004, 11:03 pm) re: icons missing from system tray (Peter Darton: Wed, Oct 27, 2004, 7:12 am) re: icons missing from system tray (Kenny: Sat, Nov 6, 2004, 9:19 pm) re: icons missing from system tray (Peter Darton: Mon, Nov 8, 2004, 5:25 am) I don't have Symantec or XP Classic Look (Basil Clarke: Mon, Nov 8, 2004, 2:03 pm) re: I don't have Symantec or XP Classic Look (sharat: Tue, Nov 9, 2004, 6:21 am) re: I don't have Symantec or XP Classic Look (timmeh: Tue, Nov 9, 2004, 6:37 am) re: I don't have Symantec or XP Classic Look (Kenny: Tue, Nov 9, 2004, 8:41 am) Hopefully a solution! 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