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re: notification area settings change by themselves
Monday, August 4, 2008 at 4:09 am
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Posted by Spexx (2229 messages posted)


OK well that is the standard way to do it and it ought to work. Perhaps Explorer is tripping itself up and could do with a clear-out of the bit bucket! Using regedit, navigate to the key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify

In there are two values "IconStreams" and "PastIconsStream" containing a bunch of binary data which represents what appears in the list of icons to show/hide in the Custom taskbar configuration menu. Simply delete those two registry values, close regedit, log out and back in again. You may well find that "good behaviour" has returned as a result. Hope this helps. Cheers. Spexx.





Written in response to:
re: notification area settings change by themselves (David Bookbinder: Sunday, August 3, 2008 at 6:34 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: notification area settings change by themselves (Queue: Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 3:02 pm)

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)
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