re: notification area settings change by themselves Sunday, August 3, 2008 at 6:34 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by David Bookbinder (360 messages posted) In "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties" I select "Hide Inactive Icons," and then in "Customize Notifications" I select "Always Hide" for the icons I always want hidden, "Always Show" for the icons I always want to see, and leave what appears to be the default, "Hide when inactive" for icons that I want to see only when their programs are doing something. For instance, I always want to see my my DSL connection icon, I never want to see my Norton Antivirus icon, and I want to see my printer status monitor icon only when the printer is doing something. This should all work fine, but in practice, some of the "Always Show" and "Always Hidden" settings revert back to "Hide when inactive." Written in response to: re: notification area settings change by themselves (Spexx: Sunday, August 3, 2008 at 1:01 pm) Responses to this message: re: notification area settings change by themselves (Spexx: Monday, August 4, 2008 at 4:09 am) All messages in this thread [show all] notification area settings change by themselves (David Bookbinder: Sat, Aug 2, 2008, 8:21 pm) re: notification area settings change by themselves (Spexx: Sun, Aug 3, 2008, 4:24 am) re: notification area settings change by themselves (Spexx: Sun, Aug 3, 2008, 4:51 am) re: notification area settings change by themselves (David Bookbinder: Sun, Aug 3, 2008, 5:49 am) re: notification area settings change by themselves (Spexx: Sun, Aug 3, 2008, 6:54 am) re: notification area settings change by themselves (David Bookbinder: Sun, Aug 3, 2008, 6:59 am) re: notification area settings change by themselves (Spexx: Sun, Aug 3, 2008, 7:20 am) re: notification area settings change by themselves (David Bookbinder: Sun, Aug 3, 2008, 7:39 am) re: notification area settings change by themselves (Spexx: Sun, Aug 3, 2008, 7:43 am) re: notification area settings change by themselves (David Bookbinder: Sun, Aug 3, 2008, 10:49 am) re: notification area settings change by themselves (Spexx: Sun, Aug 3, 2008, 1:01 pm) re: notification area settings change by themselves (David Bookbinder: Sun, Aug 3, 2008, 6:34 pm) re: notification area settings change by themselves (Spexx: Mon, Aug 4, 2008, 4:09 am) re: notification area settings change by themselves (Queue: Sat, Nov 28, 2009, 3:02 pm) re: notification area settings change by themselves (MartinM: Sun, Nov 29, 2009, 3:30 am) re: notification area settings change by themselves (Queue: Sun, Nov 29, 2009, 10:35 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum