re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 4:43 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by echoniner (1 messages posted) 1st: I had this problem after reinstalling an nvidia driver, and I suspect the problem is caused by some change to a driver, etc, that has a system tray icon associated with it. I suspect this problem is associated with some recent change give us in an XP update. (I use XP Pro SP3 32bit) Here's what worked for me: I simply went to my control panel and turned the nvidia system icon off then back on. I did the same for the one other I can easily control: my soundcard driver. By re-enabling these two, then restarting, ALL my icons, not just these two, reappeared as they should. I should note that before I tried the above, I did try the idea higher up on this thread of killing explorer using task manager, then restarting it. However, I don't believe that step is necessary to make the fix. Just try re-enabling some icons and restarting. If it doesn't work, then try killing explorer, restarting it, then re-enabling some or as many icons as you have control over, then restarting. But again, I don't think you need to do the kill explorer step. I'd be interested in knowing if this works for anyone besides me. So please reply back! Written in response to: re: icons missing from system tray (Diane: Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 9:53 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. 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