re: icons missing from system tray
Friday, February 12, 2010 at 6:53 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by jantjooh
(1 messages posted)
I had NEVER this "problem" (in 15 years), until today (on 2 computers), maybe it
is triggered by the MS patches of this week, OR MS Security Essentials (MSE), which
run now on my 2 computers.
The answer below works also for me, and also userid signing off and re-sign on again.
It is a shame this problem floats already 7+ years without a solid MS fix!
Regards, and thanks, Jan (from the Netherlands)
(WIN-XP Professional /SP3 and XP-Home/ SP3)
On Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 12:30 am, Chavroux wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I didn't read the whole thread, but in the very beginning (Thursday, October 10,
>2002 at 1:01 pm), I already found part of the solution when HC said the following:
>"You could try a right click on a blank area on your taskbar goto properties then
>untick "Hide inactive icons"
>it may help ".
>It looked to me so straight forward and too simple to be a valid solution. I almost
>missed it... (Shame on me: always try simplest solutions first!)
>
>My problem was that some of the tray icons of my well known applications running
>was not present in the system tray (even when clicking on the small arrow on the
>left side of the tray bar to expand the hidden icons). The only way I had to make
>them reapperaing in the tray was to restart the application with the processexplorer
>from the sysinternals tools... That was before the advice from HC, but with some
>complement:
>In Win XP, right click on a blank area on your taskbar, goto properties then TICK
>"Hide inactive icons". When ticking it, a button 'Customized' on the bottom right
>side of the tab is made active (inactive if unticked). If you click on this button,
>you get the list of the tray icons that are present, but also those that are hidden
>and also some other 'old' icons.... I selected my missing icon and changed the status
>from 'Hide when inactive' to 'Always show'. This made my icon reappearing in the
>tray.
>
>That's it.
>Thanks HC from 2002!
>Chavroux
>Config: Win XP Pro SP3
>
>
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| | | |  | Solution (Christopher Burton: Tue, Jan 24, 2006, 6:03 pm) |
| | | |  | re: icons missing from system tray (jantjooh: Fri, Feb 12, 2010, 6:53 am) |
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