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re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 10:52 pm Posted by jcw (186 messages posted) I assume you have elected to show the tray icons in Taskbar & Start Menu Properties? On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, October 10, 2002 at 12:06 am Posted by Critter (169 messages posted) I remember a post on another forum where a user was having the same trouble with the volume icon. They eventually solved the problem by putting a shortcut to systray.exe in their start-up folder. Apparently the problem was something (they couldn't figure out what) preventing systray from loading properly when Windows loaded. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, October 10, 2002 at 1:01 pm Posted by HC (935 messages posted) You could try a right click on a blank area on your taskbar goto properties then untick "Hide inactive icons" it may help Cheers HC On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, October 10, 2002 at 4:26 pm Posted by Louis (2 messages posted) Thanks for your suggestions, but none of them have helped. It's not an issue of inactive icons being hidden. Windows XP simply isn't showing the icons -- it must be some kind of bug, and I can't figure out how to circumvent it. Anyone have any other ideas? On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 9:21 am Posted by texfisk (3 messages posted) Just upgraded to XP and had the same problem. It seems that XP boots so fast that the Icons may not get into the system tray even thought the programs are running. I found a freeware program that allows you to delay the start of programs in then statup folder. It seems to fix the problem. Here is the link http://www.r2.com.au/downloads/index.html?id=startdelay On Thursday, October 10, 2002 at 4:26 pm, Louis wrote: >Thanks for your suggestions, but none of them have helped. It's not an issue of inactive >icons being hidden. Windows XP simply isn't showing the icons -- it must be some >kind of bug, and I can't figure out how to circumvent it. > >Anyone have any other ideas? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Sunday, February 2, 2003 at 10:50 pm Posted by Bob (2 messages posted) Tried it and it sill doesn't work. I even see splash screens but no tray icon. Any other ideas? On Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 9:21 am, texfisk wrote: >Just upgraded to XP and had the same problem. It seems that XP boots so fast that >the Icons may not get into the system tray even thought the programs are running. >I found a freeware program that allows you to delay the start of programs in then >statup folder. It seems to fix the problem. Here is the link http://www.r2.com.au/downloads/index.html?id=startdelay > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, February 3, 2003 at 8:11 pm Posted by texfisk (3 messages posted) I would guess that you have turned off the Hide inactive icons. I left the normal system programs alone and just changed my additional programs (weatherbug, calendar, webshots and a ram defrag utility) to 30 second delay. Everthing seems okay except for the speaker icon, but thats another story. On Sunday, February 2, 2003 at 10:50 pm, Bob wrote: > >Tried it and it sill doesn't work. I even see splash screens but no tray icon. >Any other ideas? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, February 5, 2003 at 1:34 am Posted by Sean Burns (2 messages posted) I have exactly the same problem. I wish people would stop thinking we are idiots and offer suggestions only if you understand the problem. On Monday, February 3, 2003 at 8:11 pm, texfisk wrote: >I would guess that you have turned off the Hide inactive icons. I left the normal >system programs alone and just changed my additional programs (weatherbug, calendar, >webshots and a ram defrag utility) to 30 second delay. Everthing seems okay except >for the speaker icon, but thats another story. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, February 5, 2003 at 4:36 am Posted by PaulC (2 messages posted) I have the same problem too and I have just spent a good hour uninstalling software in the vague hope it would highlight what the problem is. I suspect it is more involved than simply something I have installed. I did think of a virus but I have fully up-to-date Virusscan and it can't find a virus. On Wednesday, February 5, 2003 at 1:34 am, Sean Burns wrote: >I have exactly the same problem. I wish people would stop thinking we are idiots >and offer suggestions only if you understand the problem. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, February 5, 2003 at 5:33 am Posted by PaulC (2 messages posted) OK, try this... - ctl+alt+del to get up task manager - click on "Processes" tab - highlight the "explorer" process - click "End Process"... this will stop your desktop. - click on "Applications" tab - click "New Task..." - Type "explorer" and click OK This will restart the explorer which manages the desktop. With me my icons returned! Could be something to do with the startup of explorer perhaps... just a thought. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 1:06 am Posted by Peter (5 messages posted) I've been having the same problem myself, interestingly if you LOG OFF and back on, instead of restarting, etc.., everything loads properly. On Wednesday, February 5, 2003 at 5:33 am, PaulC wrote: >OK, try this... > >- ctl+alt+del to get up task manager >- click on "Processes" tab >- highlight the "explorer" process >- click "End Process"... this will stop your desktop. >- click on "Applications" tab >- click "New Task..." >- Type "explorer" and click OK > >This will restart the explorer which manages the desktop. With me my icons returned! >Could be something to do with the startup of explorer perhaps... just a thought. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 1:18 am Posted by Peter (5 messages posted) Well I finally fixed it on my computer, we'll see if it works for you all.. Get a program called RegCleaner. start it up and go to the startup tab, for me it was showing Desktop loading twice one of the instances was (common user) the other was not named, I deleted the common user instance, after creating a restore point ;p After that when I restarted it not only finished booting quicker but all the icons were loaded properly into the notification area. On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 3:05 am Posted by Sean Burns (2 messages posted) I've found an easier cure. It worked for me so you could try it:- Right-click on My Computer Click on Manage Expand 'Services & Applications' Highlight 'Services' Look through list of services on the right.... Find Universal Plug & Play Device Host Right-click on it. Click properties. Change startup type to 'Disabled' Do exactly the same with 'SSDP discovery service' Problem should be solved. On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 6:37 am Posted by Peter (5 messages posted) Turned out my fix didn't work, the first time i restarted it was fine but then returned to normal. /shrug On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 3:05 am, Sean Burns wrote: >I've found an easier cure. It worked for me so you could try it:- >Right-click on My Computer >Click on Manage >Expand 'Services & Applications' >Highlight 'Services' >Look through list of services on the right.... >Find Universal Plug & Play Device Host >Right-click on it. >Click properties. >Change startup type to 'Disabled' >Do exactly the same with 'SSDP discovery service' >Problem should be solved. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 6:41 am Posted by Peter (5 messages posted) Disabling those services worked for me as well, what are the implications? Will I need to re enable them when installing new hardware? Did you figure out what the conflict with them was? On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 3:05 am, Sean Burns wrote: >I've found an easier cure. It worked for me so you could try it:- >Right-click on My Computer >Click on Manage >Expand 'Services & Applications' >Highlight 'Services' >Look through list of services on the right.... >Find Universal Plug & Play Device Host >Right-click on it. >Click properties. >Change startup type to 'Disabled' >Do exactly the same with 'SSDP discovery service' >Problem should be solved. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, February 7, 2003 at 11:01 am Posted by Rick (1 messages posted) Microsoft knows about this problem and they have told several of us to go to [control panel] [add / remove programs] [add/remove windows components] and take out the networking services (which BTW includes Plug and Play) This worked but I was concerned that since I have a home network that I need these services.. After reading all the posts here, I think the culprit is Plug and Play and not the networking service.. To answer tje copncern about turning Plug and Play back on when installing new components, The new hardware that you buy today is plug and play aware anyhow and doesn't need windows to help so I wouldn't worry about adding new hardware with Windows Plug and Play disabled.. It should find and install the compnent without any software help.. Besides, 90% of the time you need to use the manufacturers software to install the hardware anyhow.. Rick On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 6:41 am, Peter wrote: >Disabling those services worked for me as well, what are the implications? Will >I need to re enable them when installing new hardware? Did you figure out what the >conflict with them was? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, February 7, 2003 at 1:41 pm Posted by Peter (5 messages posted) Interesting, I couldn't find anything about this on the MS knowledge base, etc... was there an article somewhere I could read or did you get this from correspondence with MS tech support? On Friday, February 7, 2003 at 11:01 am, Rick wrote: >Microsoft knows about this problem and they have told several of us to go to [control >panel] [add / remove programs] [add/remove windows components] and take out the networking >services (which BTW includes Plug and Play) > >This worked but I was concerned that since I have a home network that I need these >services.. After reading all the posts here, I think the culprit is Plug and Play >and not the networking service.. > >To answer tje copncern about turning Plug and Play back on when installing new components, >The new hardware that you buy today is plug and play aware anyhow and doesn't need >windows to help so I wouldn't worry about adding new hardware with Windows Plug and >Play disabled.. It should find and install the compnent without any software help.. >Besides, 90% of the time you need to use the manufacturers software to install the >hardware anyhow.. > > >Rick > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Saturday, February 8, 2003 at 2:42 pm Posted by Rossen Dimitriev (1 messages posted) I had particularly solved this problem for a while. In my XP go to Display Properties and choose to customize desktop. Then add some web content to your desktop. After enabling the Web Desktop everytime your computer is starting, it will show all icons in tray. Also the process of starting up will be a little bit slower. Later i have changed my mainboard and you know that after this period all of your available hardware is being refound automatically (add new hardware...). After that i haven't any problems with my volume icon. Until last week, when i changed my desktop theme. After this step, my volume icon started again to disappear. On Friday, February 7, 2003 at 1:41 pm, Peter wrote: >Interesting, I couldn't find anything about this on the MS knowledge base, etc... > was there an article somewhere I could read or did you get this from correspondence >with MS tech support? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Saturday, February 8, 2003 at 4:08 pm Posted by Scientist (1 messages posted) None of the above fixes worked for me. However, when I disabled Norton Antivirus loading with windows, the systray returned to normal. Worth a try if all else fails. On Saturday, February 8, 2003 at 2:42 pm, Rossen Dimitriev wrote: > >I had particularly solved this problem for a while. In my XP go to Display Properties >and choose to customize desktop. Then add some web content to your desktop. After >enabling the Web Desktop everytime your computer is starting, it will show all icons >in tray. Also the process of starting up will be a little bit slower. > >Later i have changed my mainboard and you know that after this period all of your >available hardware is being refound automatically (add new hardware...). After that >i haven't any problems with my volume icon. Until last week, when i changed my desktop >theme. After this step, my volume icon started again to disappear. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, February 14, 2003 at 12:25 am Posted by Don (4 messages posted) The alternate answer: SysTrayHack! Simple to use, just add it to your startup group, or configure your shell to launch it automatically on startup, and you're good to go. http://desktopian.org/addons/systray2kfix.zip A common problem for folks using any shell other than explorer with Win2k, is the 'missing tray icons' incompatibility (system-level tray icons strangely fail to appear when any shell but explorer is running). But, main, the developer of the Graphite shell managed to track it down and nail the issue under Graphite, and now his fix has been massaged into shape to work with any shell, in the form of 'SysTrayHack, an item tossed together by LS devteam member Joachim Calvert/NeXTer. Copy & Paste: (from http://www.desktopian.org/appsi_comp.html) On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, February 14, 2003 at 12:33 am Posted by Don (4 messages posted) And incase you're wondering, it DOES work on Windows XP!! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, February 17, 2003 at 9:57 pm Posted by Brock (1 messages posted) Hey that worked for me, but instead of disabling the service I just uninstalled it all together. Thanks! On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 3:05 am, Sean Burns wrote: >I've found an easier cure. It worked for me so you could try it:- >Right-click on My Computer >Click on Manage >Expand 'Services & Applications' >Highlight 'Services' >Look through list of services on the right.... >Find Universal Plug & Play Device Host >Right-click on it. >Click properties. >Change startup type to 'Disabled' >Do exactly the same with 'SSDP discovery service' >Problem should be solved. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Sunday, February 23, 2003 at 11:50 pm Posted by Josh (1 messages posted) Thanks Sean, this worked a treat for me! I have been putting up with that for ages, thanks for the tip! Cheers, Josh On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 3:05 am, Sean Burns wrote: >I've found an easier cure. It worked for me so you could try it:- >Right-click on My Computer >Click on Manage >Expand 'Services & Applications' >Highlight 'Services' >Look through list of services on the right.... >Find Universal Plug & Play Device Host >Right-click on it. >Click properties. >Change startup type to 'Disabled' >Do exactly the same with 'SSDP discovery service' >Problem should be solved. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, March 6, 2003 at 1:15 pm Posted by Don (4 messages posted) I've found another solution about this problem. You have to remove setupapi.dll (for sound icon) from your windows folder. This information can be found from Microsoft's Knowledge Base (Topic: missing printer*network* icon in system tray) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, April 19, 2004 at 4:47 pm Posted by Donna Crozier (1 messages posted) We have Windows XP. The task bar notification area has the printer icon when using my user sign on. When using my husbands sign on the printer icon is missing from the notification area. I have gone into customize the task bar and the printer icon is not in the current items or past items. I have also done restore defaults and it still does not show. How do I fix this so that my husband has the printer icon without messing up mine? Thank you, Donna Crozier > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, May 10, 2004 at 11:42 pm Posted by John Pirnie (1 messages posted) Thanks, your idea works On Wednesday, February 5, 2003 at 5:33 am, PaulC wrote: >OK, try this... > >- ctl+alt+del to get up task manager >- click on "Processes" tab >- highlight the "explorer" process >- click "End Process"... this will stop your desktop. >- click on "Applications" tab >- click "New Task..." >- Type "explorer" and click OK > >This will restart the explorer which manages the desktop. With me my icons returned! >Could be something to do with the startup of explorer perhaps... just a thought. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, June 25, 2004 at 3:58 pm Posted by Jordan (1 messages posted) That worked perfectly for me. I didn't realize so many people had this problem. So of the responces here don't work but yours does. Thanks. On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 3:05 am, Sean Burns wrote: > >I've found an easier cure. It worked for me so you could try it:- >Right-click on My Computer >Click on Manage >Expand 'Services & Applications' >Highlight 'Services' >Look through list of services on the right.... >Find Universal Plug & Play Device Host >Right-click on it. >Click properties. >Change startup type to 'Disabled' >Do exactly the same with 'SSDP discovery service' >Problem should be solved. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, July 5, 2004 at 3:45 am Posted by Troels (1 messages posted) yay.... this was the only solution that worked for me... It wasnt enough to disable plug and play, it had to be complete uninstalled! Ive tryed several different things (almost reinstalled win to get rid of it.) but nothing else worked! On Friday, February 7, 2003 at 11:01 am, Rick wrote: >Microsoft knows about this problem and they have told several of us to go to [control >panel] [add / remove programs] [add/remove windows components] and take out the networking >services (which BTW includes Plug and Play) > >This worked but I was concerned that since I have a home network that I need these >services.. After reading all the posts here, I think the culprit is Plug and Play >and not the networking service.. > >To answer tje copncern about turning Plug and Play back on when installing new components, >The new hardware that you buy today is plug and play aware anyhow and doesn't need >windows to help so I wouldn't worry about adding new hardware with Windows Plug and >Play disabled.. It should find and install the compnent without any software help.. >Besides, 90% of the time you need to use the manufacturers software to install the >hardware anyhow.. > > >Rick > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Saturday, August 14, 2004 at 2:55 pm Posted by The Pope (1 messages posted) Hi, I had the same problem, but after upgrading my chipset driver it worked just fine again... On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Tuesday, August 17, 2004 at 7:34 am Posted by binar (1 messages posted) problem: upon booting xp pro most of my tray icons would not appear and there was a delay in starting up. I changed "IPv6 Helper Service" and "IPv6 Internet Connection Firewall" found under services from automatic to manual. All my icons appeared on the next boot and my log file shows no errors now concerning ipv6. I use zone alarm pro for firewall and anti-virus protection. If your using the built in firewall this might turn that off. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, September 2, 2004 at 11:53 am Posted by Sasha (1 messages posted) I had this same icon problem and then I tried this suggestion and it worked. Thanks a lot PaulC. On Wednesday, February 5, 2003 at 5:33 am, PaulC wrote: >OK, try this... > >- ctl+alt+del to get up task manager >- click on "Processes" tab >- highlight the "explorer" process >- click "End Process"... this will stop your desktop. >- click on "Applications" tab >- click "New Task..." >- Type "explorer" and click OK > >This will restart the explorer which manages the desktop. With me my icons returned! >Could be something to do with the startup of explorer perhaps... just a thought. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, September 10, 2004 at 12:12 am Posted by Ed Vasicek (1 messages posted) I tried the Log Off and then logged back on and you are right. At least it works for me. On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 1:06 am, Peter wrote: >I've been having the same problem myself, interestingly if you LOG OFF and back on, >instead of restarting, etc.., everything loads properly. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Sunday, October 10, 2004 at 11:46 pm Posted by cbgerry (2 messages posted) What you may NOT have to do.... I am adding here to the thread what you may not have to do, before all the extra time and aggravation. I found this thread at a Google search, and it is exactly the same problem I have - and I see a few possible avenues to try. I am getting most of my System Tray Icons except one main one I am trying to make appear. I went all through the "msconfig" scenario on XP and so on - making sure the program is checked properly everywhere to start at Start Up. I have Uninstalled my program (Handstory Suite) and re-installed it... no help. What you may NOT have to do..... I have some Spyware extra programs installed besides Norton AV like "SpyGuard" and "SpyBlaster" - which disable all sorts of spyware and scumware and others from downloading spyware and such through IExplorer. I had recently uploaded new definitions in these and was thinking perhaps one of the Spyware Definitions had blocked my program from starting normally. After Uninstalling them - nothing... the program icon in the system tray was still not appearing. I have seen here a few remedies to try. I also tried copying the shortcut to the "Start Up" folders in Windows Explorer - there are a couple such as "..All Users / Programs / Start Up - - - and - - - Your Name (primary user name) / Programs / Start Up - - - and - - - Default User / Programs / Start Up ... .... .... but that did not place the icon in the tray. Best of luck all, and I will be back if any of the other suggestions here work. I would really like to know the actual conflicts as well, because I also tried using the "Hide Inactive Icons" by right clicking for Properties on the Task Bar, and then clicking "Customize" and choosing the icon and all others I wanted to appear with the "Always Show" these Icons. This did not work, as when I had re-installed my program - at least then the icon appeared until I shut down my Computer. Strange, because the program and tray icon have been working fine for over a year and I do not have all sorts of excess Start Up icons in the tray. On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray ------xxxxxxx----cut---cut--------xxxxxxxxxxx [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Saturday, October 16, 2004 at 11:03 pm Posted by Steve Brown (1 messages posted) This worked for me, too. Now I'm wondering why. Maybe it is because of the security vulnerability in those two programs, which didn't have any effect until I turned on Norton Internet Security. I lost the icons shortly after I turned on NIS, although that could be coincidental. My wife's computer, which doesn't have NIS, doesn't have the icon problem. Do all the people having this problem have NIS, or at least a modern firewall program? On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 3:05 am, Sean Burns wrote: > >I've found an easier cure. It worked for me so you could try it:- >Right-click on My Computer >Click on Manage >Expand 'Services & Applications' >Highlight 'Services' >Look through list of services on the right.... >Find Universal Plug & Play Device Host >Right-click on it. >Click properties. >Change startup type to 'Disabled' >Do exactly the same with 'SSDP discovery service' >Problem should be solved. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Sunday, October 24, 2004 at 5:00 pm Posted by Basil Clarke (12 messages posted) 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. On Sunday, October 10, 2004 at 11:46 pm, cbgerry wrote: >What you may NOT have to do.... >I am adding here to the thread what you may not have to do, before all the extra >time and aggravation. I found this thread at a Google search, and it is exactly the >same problem I have - and I see a few possible avenues to try. I am getting most >of my System Tray Icons except one main one I am trying to make appear. I went all >through the "msconfig" scenario on XP and so on - making sure the program is checked >properly everywhere to start at Start Up. I have Uninstalled my program (Handstory >Suite) and re-installed it... no help. > >What you may NOT have to do..... I have some Spyware extra programs installed besides >Norton AV like "SpyGuard" and "SpyBlaster" - which disable all sorts of spyware and >scumware and others from downloading spyware and such through IExplorer. I had recently >uploaded new definitions in these and was thinking perhaps one of the Spyware Definitions >had blocked my program from starting normally. After Uninstalling them - nothing... >the program icon in the system tray was still not appearing. > >I have seen here a few remedies to try. I also tried copying the shortcut to the >"Start Up" folders in Windows Explorer - there are a couple such as "..All Users >/ Programs / Start Up - - - and - - - Your Name (primary user name) / Programs / >Start Up - - - and - - - Default User / Programs / Start Up ... .... .... but that >did not place the icon in the tray. Best of luck all, and I will be back if any of >the other suggestions here work. I would really like to know the actual conflicts >as well, because I also tried using the "Hide Inactive Icons" by right clicking for >Properties on the Task Bar, and then clicking "Customize" and choosing the icon and >all others I wanted to appear with the "Always Show" these Icons. This did not work, >as when I had re-installed my program - at least then the icon appeared until I shut >down my Computer. Strange, because the program and tray icon have been working fine >for over a year and I do not have all sorts of excess Start Up icons in the tray. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing... (Handstory) Sunday, October 24, 2004 at 5:29 pm Posted by cbgerry (2 messages posted) Reply... Handstory Icon / Start Tray: I tried copying the icon to Start Folders, and also with me, the 'disappearence' occurred about the time of the XP SP2 Upgrade. In the new security center of the XP SP2 at Contol Panel I have made sure that the Handstory program is given access. Also now, as you mentioned, I went to > Control Panel > System > Advanced > Performance - and set the minimum start up of Virtual Memory to the lowest allowed which is 2M. I had previously had it set to about 30M and higher, which apparently was stopping or slowing loading at start up to first produce the memory - and as you said was denying the program by memory allocation rules. I did that as a short fix to an actual Memory Upgrade which is recommended from factory 256 to 512 ( a hundred dollar memory stick added to the Computer ). I am sure the Virtual Memory is tapped into when the ROM becomes low, which processes the operating system as opposed to files and photos memory which goes up to 2 Gigs and higher. After upgrading to Norton 2005 - the Handstory Program is now working fine again. Doing some homework with things like "system exe" and anything for Start Up or 'system tray' - I really found no information helpful. I think you are correct though that the start up memory used must be set correctly, and it seems to correct itself. 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. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, October 27, 2004 at 7:12 am Posted by Peter Darton (2 messages posted) "Me too" - When I ran Windows Task Manager, I wasn't getting the little green square that showed up CPU utilisation. I followed the instructions to kill off those two services (in my case, only SSDP was running), and hey presto, Task Manager works again! > Maybe it is because of the security vulnerability in > those two programs, which didn't have any effect > until I turned on Norton Internet Security. I don't have NIS here, but I was missing the icon until I disabled SSDP. I do have Symantec antivirus, but all the firewalling here is done with hardware firewalls - there's no firewalling done in software. I'm not in a position to comment on whether or not this screw-up was introduced in SP2 or not as our IT chap installed SP2 before handing me the machine. I can, however, tell you that, on this PC at least (XP Pro, SP2 + a couple of hotfixes), if I set the service "SSDP Discovery Service" to "Automatic" OR set it to "Manual" and then start it manually, my "Windows Task Manager" icon fails to appear (unless I'm very quick - it seems that it takes SSDP a few seconds to sabotage things) In other words, I believe it's all down to this SSDP service (at least it is here - I've seen other things on the web suggesting that this is not the only cause of missing icons - icon presence seems to be fairly flakey) > My wife's computer, which doesn't have NIS, > doesn't have the icon problem. But does it have SSDP disabled (or at least not started)? If there's nothing that'll make SSDP start up, it won't cause the icon problem. From the (very) brief description of the SSDP service, it looks aimed at networked stuff, so if your wife's computer isn't networked, SSDP may not start up (and if it is networked, you'd want firewall & anti-virus stuff on it...) > Do all the people having this problem have NIS, or > at least a modern firewall program? We've got Symantec anti-virus here, doing file-scan stuff mainly - nothing in the way of inbound or outbound network traffic on the desktop PCs. Our firewall is a (seperate) PC running smoothwall. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Saturday, November 6, 2004 at 9:19 pm Posted by Kenny (2 messages posted) I've read all of the above posts and I have not seen any true solutions to this problem. I took it upon myself to do some thorough investigation into this matter with the missing system tray icons (I have this problem as well). The problem began for me after the installation of Network Associates (McAfee) VirusScan Enterprise v7.1.0. After the installation of the software, my system tray icons would be missing after most boot-ups. The problem is NOT related to Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, as I had this problem both prior AND after the upgrade to SP2. I reformatted a second computer and did a new install of Windows XP Pro w/SP2. All system tray activity was normal. I then installed VirusScan Enterprise v7.1.0 and the problem with the icons began again. I have scoured the McAfee knowledgebase in hopes of finding a solution, but there are none. I suggest that everybody who has this problem bring this to McAfee's attention in hopes that they provide an official patch or fix for this problem. Once again, I am ABSOLUTELY SURE that the missing system tray icons are the fault of VirusScan v7.1.0. There MUST be something that this program triggers that causes the system tray icons to disappear. On Wednesday, October 27, 2004 at 7:12 am, Peter Darton wrote: >"Me too" - When I ran Windows Task Manager, I wasn't getting the little green square >that showed up CPU utilisation. >I followed the instructions to kill off those two services (in my case, only SSDP >was running), and hey presto, Task Manager works again! > >> Maybe it is because of the security vulnerability in >> those two programs, which didn't have any effect >> until I turned on Norton Internet Security. > >I don't have NIS here, but I was missing the icon until I disabled SSDP. >I do have Symantec antivirus, but all the firewalling here is done with hardware >firewalls - there's no firewalling done in software. >I'm not in a position to comment on whether or not this screw-up was introduced in >SP2 or not as our IT chap installed SP2 before handing me the machine. > > >I can, however, tell you that, on this PC at least (XP Pro, SP2 + a couple of hotfixes), >if I set the service "SSDP Discovery Service" to "Automatic" OR set it to "Manual" >and then start it manually, my "Windows Task Manager" icon fails to appear (unless >I'm very quick - it seems that it takes SSDP a few seconds to sabotage things) > >In other words, I believe it's all down to this SSDP service (at least it is here >- I've seen other things on the web suggesting that this is not the only cause of >missing icons - icon presence seems to be fairly flakey) > > >> My wife's computer, which doesn't have NIS, >> doesn't have the icon problem. > >But does it have SSDP disabled (or at least not started)? >If there's nothing that'll make SSDP start up, it won't cause the icon problem. >From the (very) brief description of the SSDP service, it looks aimed at networked >stuff, so if your wife's computer isn't networked, SSDP may not start up (and if >it is networked, you'd want firewall & anti-virus stuff on it...) > > >> Do all the people having this problem have NIS, or >> at least a modern firewall program? > >We've got Symantec anti-virus here, doing file-scan stuff mainly - nothing in the >way of inbound or outbound network traffic on the desktop PCs. >Our firewall is a (seperate) PC running smoothwall. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, November 8, 2004 at 5:25 am Posted by Peter Darton (2 messages posted) I've also been doing some further investigation elsewhere. Firstly, I've found that whilst stopping the SSDP service does allow the Task Manager's system tray icon to appear, this cure does not last forever, and it isn't an immediate 100% fix either. However, I've been in contact with a few other folks, and from what I can tell, people who have XP, have it set to "classic look" and have Symantec Anti-Virus suffer from this problem. Obviously I don't know if everyone with this combination suffers from this problem, but, prior to reading your message, everyone I'd come into contact with who had this problem has this combination. I concurr with your "it's not SP2" conclusion - folks I've talked to confirm this. > The problem began for me after the installation of > Network Associates (McAfee) VirusScan Enterprise > v7.1.0. After the installation of the software, my > system tray icons would be missing after most > boot-ups. Well you're the first person (I've seen) to report this problem who hasn't got Symantec Anti-Virus installed. This certainly widens the scope a lot, unless they both have some other internal component in common (I must confess I'm very ignorant of the internal relationships between the different anti-virus products - I know a lot of companies have merged and renamed themselves, and others share licenced technologies, but I'm unsure of details). So, I think we can therefore conclude that it isn't SP2's fault but it IS something to do with Anti-Virus software. I'm coming to the conclusion that this sort of thing is unlikely to get sorted until a big customer raises a revenue-impact level support call. I'm going to see if I can pursuade our IT chap to start poking Symantec about this, but I don't hold much hope to be honest. [Reply or follow-up to this message] I don't have Symantec or XP Classic Look Monday, November 8, 2004 at 2:03 pm Posted by Basil Clarke (12 messages posted) My virus checker is Trend PC-cillin, as it has been all along, and the problem only goes back a few weeks. Also, I use the new XP look, not the Classic look. So I don't have either element in this combination. What is new is that, since I installed SP2, I have a firewall enabled. I do have a large number of programs installed, but can't pin down the start of the problem to any one of them. On Monday, November 8, 2004 at 5:25 am, Peter Darton wrote: >I've also been doing some further investigation elsewhere. >Firstly, I've found that whilst stopping the SSDP service does allow the Task Manager's >system tray icon to appear, this cure does not last forever, and it isn't an immediate >100% fix either. > >However, I've been in contact with a few other folks, and from what I can tell, people >who have XP, have it set to "classic look" and have Symantec Anti-Virus suffer from >this problem. >Obviously I don't know if everyone with this combination suffers from this problem, >but, prior to reading your message, everyone I'd come into contact with who had this >problem has this combination. >I concurr with your "it's not SP2" conclusion - folks I've talked to confirm this. > > >> The problem began for me after the installation of >> Network Associates (McAfee) VirusScan Enterprise >> v7.1.0. After the installation of the software, my >> system tray icons would be missing after most >> boot-ups. > >Well you're the first person (I've seen) to report this problem who hasn't got Symantec >Anti-Virus installed. >This certainly widens the scope a lot, unless they both have some other internal >component in common (I must confess I'm very ignorant of the internal relationships >between the different anti-virus products - I know a lot of companies have merged >and renamed themselves, and others share licenced technologies, but I'm unsure of >details). > >So, I think we can therefore conclude that it isn't SP2's fault but it IS something >to do with Anti-Virus software. > >I'm coming to the conclusion that this sort of thing is unlikely to get sorted until >a big customer raises a revenue-impact level support call. >I'm going to see if I can pursuade our IT chap to start poking Symantec about this, >but I don't hold much hope to be honest. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: I don't have Symantec or XP Classic Look Tuesday, November 9, 2004 at 6:21 am Posted by sharat (1 messages posted) i have the same problem ... no sound or volume icon in the sytem tray ... i dont even get any sound from my speakers .. tried re-installing drivers .. didnt work .. can anyone help? On Monday, November 8, 2004 at 2:03 pm, Basil Clarke wrote: >My virus checker is Trend PC-cillin, as it has been all along, and the problem only >goes back a few weeks. Also, I use the new XP look, not the Classic look. So I >don't have either element in this combination. What is new is that, since I installed >SP2, I have a firewall enabled. I do have a large number of programs installed, >but can't pin down the start of the problem to any one of them. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: I don't have Symantec or XP Classic Look Tuesday, November 9, 2004 at 6:37 am Posted by timmeh (2 messages posted) I've Win XP SP2 and Viruscan 7.1.0 installed. The problem of missing system tray icon appears to occur after I updated the scan engine of Viruscan to 4400. And I solved it by disabling UPnP and SSDP. On Tuesday, November 9, 2004 at 6:21 am, sharat wrote: >i have the same problem ... no sound or volume icon in the sytem tray ... i dont >even get any sound from my speakers .. tried re-installing drivers .. didnt work >.. >can anyone help? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: I don't have Symantec or XP Classic Look Tuesday, November 9, 2004 at 8:41 am Posted by Kenny (2 messages posted) This is beginning to make more sense to me now. The majority of the time that I lose my icons upon log-in is when I relocate to a new wireless network (at school). When I boot up the first time at home, the icons are missing as well. Upon subsequent reboots at home, the icons are there sometimes. I think the problem is that UPnP and SSDP are too busy trying to find out if there are any UPnP devices on the network. Besides disabling UPnP and SSDP, logging off and back on DOES work for me. So far, for the past few times I have started or rebooted my laptop, I have not had the problem. When it comes back, I will try out disabling the UPnP and SSDP services. On Tuesday, November 9, 2004 at 6:37 am, timmeh wrote: > >I've Win XP SP2 and Viruscan 7.1.0 installed. The problem of missing system tray >icon appears to occur after I updated the scan engine of Viruscan to 4400. And I >solved it by disabling UPnP and SSDP. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Hopefully a solution! Thursday, November 11, 2004 at 6:23 pm Posted by Brent (3 messages posted) Hope this helps... Bottom line is that you want your system tray to run at startup....system tray includes the windows sound icon, network connections, power monitor etc. PLEASE CREATE RESTORE POINT NOW!!!! If you mess up at any point just restore to this restore point and start again NOTE: Don't type in the quotes when entering data below. None of this will affect third party applications running in your computer's system tray as systray.exe and the others are independent. Run the window registry editor (START, RUN, regedit) You need to create a new String Value called "systray" in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Then give in the value: "C:\WINDOWS\system32\systray.exe" To do all this: 1. START, RUN, type "regedit", hit enter 2. Once in the Registry Editor, navigate the left directory tree to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run 3. Then right click on the right window pane, click new, then string value. 4. Give the new string value the name "systray" 5. Your new value should now have the name "systray", the type "REG_SZ", and no data. 6. Right click on your new "systray" value and click "modify". 7. Now give "systray" the value data: "C:\WINDOWS\system32\systray.exe" 8. Click ok and close the Registry Editor. 9. Restart your computer. You should now have your systray back at boot. Hope this helps. Email me if anybody gets stuck. Brent brent.martel@gmail.com CANADA On Tuesday, November 9, 2004 at 8:41 am, Kenny wrote: >This is beginning to make more sense to me now. The majority of the time that I lose >my icons upon log-in is when I relocate to a new wireless network (at school). When >I boot up the first time at home, the icons are missing as well. Upon subsequent >reboots at home, the icons are there sometimes. > >I think the problem is that UPnP and SSDP are too busy trying to find out if there >are any UPnP devices on the network. Besides disabling UPnP and SSDP, logging off >and back on DOES work for me. > >So far, for the past few times I have started or rebooted my laptop, I have not had >the problem. When it comes back, I will try out disabling the UPnP and SSDP services. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Saturday, November 13, 2004 at 12:46 am Posted by PCM (1 messages posted) Greetings! I have had this problem too and 2 of my icons (sound and battery meter) appears and disappears randomly. I've tried many of the suggested solutions discussed on this forum and some of them worked. Nonetheless, I've come to realized that these solutions are only temporary. Who knows one day you might need to turn back on the UPnP and SSDC you disabled? I've found myself a better solution. That is to turn the login mode to windows classic. CTRL PANEL --> User accounts --> Change the way users login and out (or something like that) Requiring a password at startup kinda gives UPnP and SSDC time to initialize before the systray loads up when entering windows. Hope his helps! PCM P.S. I've searched all over the internet and this forum is the only relavant help I found. So I guess I just contribute a little on my part to keep this community going. On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, November 19, 2004 at 3:14 am Posted by Oliver (2 messages posted) Hi, unfortunately I don't have any real solutions either. I'll just describe the way the problem occurs for me so maybe someone smarter can narrow down the causes better. The only solution that works for me is the user-logon with explit selection of a user account. Brent's registry addition didn't make any difference at all. System: Win XP German, icons started to disappear after installing SP2. I completely deactivated the windows security features. I'm running Norton Antivirus 2002 which updated itself after installing XP SP2, and Tiny Personal Firewall. However, even if I deactivate both, the icons still appear randomly, sometimes they're there, sometimes they're not. On my machine it's only icons for little helper programs that disappear, nothing system relevant, but it's still a pain int the a... So, if anyone has any more ideas, please broadcast to the world! Oliver [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Sunday, November 21, 2004 at 4:51 am Posted by Malko (1 messages posted) I have the same problem, started before SP2 installation... I tryed everythings and it continue, but last time I done a "chkdsk /f /r", to find and solve some bad cluster, and I check some difference. Now icons appear every time, but i don't know that this is the real solution, because I sow a time icons disappear again! bye bye On Friday, November 19, 2004 at 3:14 am, Oliver wrote: >Hi, > >unfortunately I don't have any real solutions either. I'll just describe the way >the problem occurs for me so maybe someone smarter can narrow down the causes better. >The only solution that works for me is the user-logon with explit selection of a >user account. Brent's registry addition didn't make any difference at all. >System: Win XP German, icons started to disappear after installing SP2. I completely >deactivated the windows security features. I'm running Norton Antivirus 2002 which >updated itself after installing XP SP2, and Tiny Personal Firewall. However, even >if I deactivate both, the icons still appear randomly, sometimes they're there, sometimes >they're not. On my machine it's only icons for little helper programs that disappear, >nothing system relevant, but it's still a pain int the a... So, if anyone has any >more ideas, please broadcast to the world! > >Oliver [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, November 22, 2004 at 12:50 am Posted by lani (1 messages posted) replying to missing volume icon. On Saturday, February 8, 2003 at 2:42 pm, Rossen Dimitriev wrote: > >I had particularly solved this problem for a while. In my XP go to Display Properties >and choose to customize desktop. Then add some web content to your desktop. After >enabling the Web Desktop everytime your computer is starting, it will show all icons >in tray. Also the process of starting up will be a little bit slower. > >Later i have changed my mainboard and you know that after this period all of your >available hardware is being refound automatically (add new hardware...). After that >i haven't any problems with my volume icon. Until last week, when i changed my desktop >theme. After this step, my volume icon started again to disappear. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Saturday, November 27, 2004 at 2:34 pm Posted by Rob (1 messages posted) I have Win XP SP2 and Viruscan 7.1.0 installed. Had the random missing Icons and solved it by disabling UPnP and SSDP. Closing a session and login on again works too but anoying. Thanks for the solution. On Monday, November 22, 2004 at 12:50 am, lani wrote: >replying to missing volume icon. > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, December 1, 2004 at 12:38 am Posted by Raptor (1 messages posted) I'm exactly in the same situation here. After installing McAfee Virusscan Enterprise 8.0, I noticed that most of my system tray icons were gone after rebooting. So I started googling and came across this thread. For me, the trick with disabling UPnP and SSDP doesn't work. The services were not even running in the first place. What I did notice however, is that when I go to the taskbar configuration where you can set whether the icons should be hidden or not, the history of the icons shows all icons wrong! Most of them have the image of a folder instead of their normal icon. Others do have a normal icon but the wrong one (e.g. Mozilla shows the icon of the iTouch logitech app). Maybe this is related, maybe not. BTW, I already had a similar problem with wrong icons being displayed in the installed applications list when you go to Add/Remove Programs, and that on multiple PCs. Also never found what was the cause (not that I did a thorough investigation). On Saturday, November 6, 2004 at 9:19 pm, Kenny wrote: >The problem began for me after the installation of Network Associates (McAfee) VirusScan >Enterprise v7.1.0. After the installation of the software, my system tray icons would >be missing after most boot-ups. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, December 1, 2004 at 3:47 pm Posted by Peter Z (1 messages posted) I wouldn't be too sure... I don't have VirusScan and have the problem... the uninstalling of the networking services worked for me... and seems to be working well. (several reboots) Try That one... On Saturday, November 6, 2004 at 9:19 pm, Kenny wrote: >I've read all of the above posts and I have not seen any true solutions to this problem. >I took it upon myself to do some thorough investigation into this matter with the >missing system tray icons (I have this problem as well). > >The problem began for me after the installation of Network Associates (McAfee) VirusScan >Enterprise v7.1.0. After the installation of the software, my system tray icons would >be missing after most boot-ups. > >The problem is NOT related to Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, as I had this problem >both prior AND after the upgrade to SP2. > >I reformatted a second computer and did a new install of Windows XP Pro w/SP2. All >system tray activity was normal. I then installed VirusScan Enterprise v7.1.0 and >the problem with the icons began again. > >I have scoured the McAfee knowledgebase in hopes of finding a solution, but there >are none. I suggest that everybody who has this problem bring this to McAfee's attention >in hopes that they provide an official patch or fix for this problem. > >Once again, I am ABSOLUTELY SURE that the missing system tray icons are the fault >of VirusScan v7.1.0. There MUST be something that this program triggers that causes >the system tray icons to disappear. > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, December 1, 2004 at 6:00 pm Posted by MosquitoMan (1 messages posted) This problem started to me just today. I recently got a new computer, just a few days ago. It came with Norton AntiVirus 2004. Runs Windows XP Home. I didn't have this problem until one of my games locked up and I had to turn off the computer by holding down the power button. When I turned it back on my system tray icons were gone! If I open up new programs (such as iTunes) that aren't part of my system's startup the icons work. So it is only the icons that are supposed to come on with startup. On Wednesday, December 1, 2004 at 3:47 pm, Peter Z wrote: >I wouldn't be too sure... I don't have VirusScan and have the problem... the uninstalling >of the networking services worked for me... and seems to be working well. (several >reboots) > >Try That one... > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, December 2, 2004 at 5:38 pm Posted by Paul Sterbentz (1 messages posted) Go to this link and download recommended reg edit program - it really works! http://www.digiportal.com/support/choicemail/technotes/notes/nosystrayicon.htm On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, December 3, 2004 at 3:47 am Posted by Oliver (2 messages posted) Tried it, didn't change a thing... The icons for my little helper programs still didn't appear. All the system icons are there anyway. On Thursday, December 2, 2004 at 5:38 pm, Paul Sterbentz wrote: >Go to this link and download recommended reg edit program - it really works! http://www.digiportal.com/support/choicemail/technotes/notes/nosystrayicon.htm > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Hopefully a solution! Thursday, December 9, 2004 at 9:39 am Posted by JSS3rd (2 messages posted) Brent ... Tried your reghack with no success. I never had the problem on my laptop (XP Pro, Classic display) until I installed SP2. I have no Symantec of McAfee products installed, but run AVG 7.1 and ZoneAlarm 5.5 on startup, along with a number of other programs which I want to run in the background. On initial boot, only five or six of sixteen icons appear. Inactive icons are not hidden. The solution I've used since day one is to log off and back on, but that's a nuisance. I've not yet installed SP2 on my desktop computer, but will be interested to see if the problem is repeated, since so many of the posts refer to laptops. On Thursday, November 11, 2004 at 6:23 pm, Brent wrote: Hope this helps... [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Hopefully a solution! Monday, December 13, 2004 at 7:21 am Posted by JSS3rd (2 messages posted) I did find a solution which works (for me). Several posts in this thread have mentioned UPnP and SSDP, but I found that just disabling UPnP was the answer for me. 1. Open Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs. 2. In the sidebar, click on Add/Remove Windows Components. 3. Scroll down to Networking Services, select it, and click the Details... button. 4. Uncheck UPnP User Interface. 5. OK your way out, close Add/Remove Programs, and reboot. All tray icons should appear normally, without the need to log off and back on. [Reply or follow-up to this message] The problem Tuesday, December 14, 2004 at 12:01 am Posted by Grond (1 messages posted) The problem is that Microsoft's desire to make XP boot up faster inspired them to make everything load at once and the system tray is loading before the apps that have icons in the system tray are loading. If logging off and logging back on (not restarting) fixes your system tray then that is definitely your problem. All virus scanners as well as the plug and play service are system hogs which exacerbates the problem. The workarounds are: 1) Make your system tray load last 2) Give your computer more time to boot 3) Load less things at start up There are various methods and utilties for doing these some of which have been mentioned. [Reply or follow-up to this message] The Solution? Monday, December 20, 2004 at 7:27 pm Posted by Neil Muralee (1 messages posted) I have a problem on my laptop where the battery icon does not appear. It seems to be the case that XP just plain and simple loads too fast. See Tech-Pro's write up on this problem... http://www.tech-pro.net/howto_013.html They have a program (http://www.tech-pro.net/startup.html#smgr) where the user can set the order in which the system tray loads programs. Useful because i can set my battery monitar at 1st priority. On Tuesday, December 14, 2004 at 12:01 am, Grond wrote: > >The problem is that Microsoft's desire to make XP boot up faster inspired them to >make everything load at once and the system tray is loading before the apps that >have icons in the system tray are loading. If logging off and logging back on (not >restarting) fixes your system tray then that is definitely your problem. All virus >scanners as well as the plug and play service are system hogs which exacerbates the >problem. The workarounds are: >1) Make your system tray load last >2) Give your computer more time to boot >3) Load less things at start up >There are various methods and utilties for doing these some of which have been mentioned. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, December 29, 2004 at 8:01 am Posted by Joe G. Weisenhurst (1 messages posted) While I tried many of the solutions listed here, including the UPNP disabling and systray.exe registry entry, the only one I found to work is listed below, from an above post. The following should be pasted into a text file and saved with an extension of .reg in order to work. ---cut_and_paste_from_here--- REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoTrayItemsDisplay"=dword:00000000 ---end_cut_and_paste--- I've copied/pasted it here in order to keep the solution available in the event that DigiPortal Software no longer hosts the file or provides the solution. Thank you all for providing your solutions; I've seen that each one has helped at least one other person and I am sure that they appreciate your feedback also. On Thursday, December 2, 2004 at 5:38 pm, Paul Sterbentz wrote: >Go to this link and download recommended reg edit program - it really works! http://www.digiportal.com/support/choicemail/technotes/notes/nosystrayicon.htm [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Hopefully a solution! Thursday, December 30, 2004 at 2:15 am Posted by artcraft (1 messages posted) Well,,,,, this one worked for me. Once I get to the desktop the cpu keeps crankin' for a bit, but I got all my icons back! I've restarted 4 or 5 times and it seems to be okay. XP Pro, SP2, NIS 2004 Pro, NSW 2005 Premium, Athlon 64 3000, k8n-e mobo. On Monday, December 13, 2004 at 7:21 am, JSS3rd wrote: >I did find a solution which works (for me). Several posts in this thread >have mentioned UPnP and SSDP, but I found that just disabling UPnP was the answer >for me. > > 1. Open Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs. > > 2. In the sidebar, click on Add/Remove Windows Components. > > 3. Scroll down to Networking Services, select it, and click the Details... >button. > > 4. Uncheck UPnP User Interface. > > 5. OK your way out, close Add/Remove Programs, and reboot. > >All tray icons should appear normally, without the need to log off and back on. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Tuesday, January 11, 2005 at 9:23 pm Posted by jk3000 (1 messages posted) The problem started for me right after installing SP2 and I've tried almost everything that has been discussed through out this conversation without any luck. Yet, after installing Microsoft’s Anti-Spam software the problem seems to have gone away. Since installing I’ve rebooted at least ten times and no problem with missing icons. I wonder if anyone else has had the same results. ~JK On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, January 17, 2005 at 10:33 am Posted by Marco (1 messages posted) Open "My Network Places" under Network Task look for "Hide Icon for Networked UPnP devices" click on it, then when windows is finished copying or deleting files or changing the configuration it should change to "Sho icons for Networked UPnp devices". That worked for me On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, January 19, 2005 at 1:31 pm Posted by George Zimek (1 messages posted) Disabling uPnP seems to be the only fulproof solution to this annoying problem. Apparently the uPnP sevices somehow interfere with the antivirus software while it's initializing.The down side od not having uPnP enabled and running is not being able to use P2P networking software and hardware (such as network storage devices) that utilize uPnP. Funny thing is, my poky P2 machine (running XP SP2) is just fine. The problem only occurs on my P4. On Monday, January 17, 2005 at 10:33 am, Marco wrote: >Open "My Network Places" under Network Task look for "Hide Icon for Networked UPnP >devices" click on it, then when windows is finished copying or deleting files or >changing the configuration it should change to "Sho icons for Networked UPnp devices". >That worked for me > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, January 28, 2005 at 10:28 pm Posted by WraithCobra (1 messages posted) I also Googled looking for answers to this problem and found this site. Wanted to let everyone know that disabling uPnP worked for me. I knew I was missing the power and volume icons, and now there's a few others there that I didn't even realize were gone. It's a new laptop, Inspiron 9200, so WinXP SP2 was already installed and note I'm using the Dell/McAfee SecurityCenter since there were some that suspected the antivirus software. One question though, what exactly is the uPnP and will I ever need to enable it for anything in the future? Oh, and thanks to everyone for the solution. On Wednesday, January 19, 2005 at 1:31 pm, George Zimek wrote: >Disabling uPnP seems to be the only fulproof solution to this annoying problem. Apparently >the uPnP sevices somehow interfere with the antivirus software while >it's initializing.The down side od not having uPnP enabled and running is not being >able to use P2P networking software and hardware (such as network storage devices) >that utilize uPnP. Funny thing is, my >poky P2 machine (running XP SP2) is just fine. The >problem only occurs on my P4. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Saturday, February 5, 2005 at 10:22 am Posted by Mike Schatz (12 messages posted) Thanks! This worked for me. On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 3:05 am, Sean Burns wrote: > >I've found an easier cure. It worked for me so you could try it:- >Right-click on My Computer >Click on Manage >Expand 'Services & Applications' >Highlight 'Services' >Look through list of services on the right.... >Find Universal Plug & Play Device Host >Right-click on it. >Click properties. >Change startup type to 'Disabled' >Do exactly the same with 'SSDP discovery service' >Problem should be solved. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Saturday, February 5, 2005 at 11:40 pm Posted by Armada (2 messages posted) I got the same problem try to log out and log in again. Click this link for more information: http://www.tech-pro.net/howto_013.html On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, February 7, 2005 at 7:41 pm Posted by woppenhe (5 messages posted) Thanks that worked for me! On Wednesday, February 5, 2003 at 5:33 am, PaulC wrote: >OK, try this... > >- ctl+alt+del to get up task manager >- click on "Processes" tab >- highlight the "explorer" process >- click "End Process"... this will stop your desktop. >- click on "Applications" tab >- click "New Task..." >- Type "explorer" and click OK > >This will restart the explorer which manages the desktop. With me my icons returned! >Could be something to do with the startup of explorer perhaps... just a thought. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, February 14, 2005 at 6:34 pm Posted by Dreamer (2 messages posted) If anyone is still following this, I had the same problem. Even though I still could not find out what was causing it. I have a feeling something in the TweakUI program did it, but not certain. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer NoTrayIcons REG_BINARY 01 00 00 00 There might be an entry like or something very similar, I do not have the entry in front of me, because I removed it and rebooted and got my tray icons back. On Monday, February 7, 2005 at 7:41 pm, woppenhe wrote: >Thanks that worked for me! > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, February 14, 2005 at 10:12 pm Posted by woppenhe (5 messages posted) I did not have an entry like that in my registry. I had to use the above procedure twice, and then it seemed to stick, and I have had no further trouble. On Monday, February 14, 2005 at 6:34 pm, Dreamer wrote: >If anyone is still following this, I had the same problem. Even though I still could >not find out what was causing it. I have a feeling something in the TweakUI program >did it, but not certain. > >HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer > >NoTrayIcons REG_BINARY 01 00 00 00 > >There might be an entry like or something very similar, I do not have the entry in >front of me, because I removed it and rebooted and got my tray icons back. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, February 17, 2005 at 12:26 am Posted by RockMTL (1 messages posted) Well everyone, Guess what, I TOO have this problem. I just got off from some interesting reading and apparently, all this is A BUG. O.K. nothing new, but my point is, start up is too quick to enable certain icons to appear in the notification bar, no matter what you do, other than the multitude of - BANDAIDE - fixes above. Personally, disabling Plug and Play is not he answer, it works, but it's not an answer. If you need Plug and Play it wont be there. So, after I thought no one would ever complain about the SPEED of boot up, this is where the problem lies and Microsoft has got to find some sort of solution, if they ever do. So I repeat it's a bug, no need for Reg hits etc...all we're doing is compensating. But I know, it's aggrivating as heck!!Best solution in my opinion, Log On with a password, this gives more than ample time to load all the icons in the NOT Area. Anyway, carryon all! On Monday, February 14, 2005 at 10:12 pm, woppenhe wrote: >I did not have an entry like that in my registry. I had to use the above procedure >twice, and then it seemed to stick, and I have had no further trouble. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Saturday, February 26, 2005 at 8:12 pm Posted by Alan (3 messages posted) It was interesting to see that so many other people have had the problem of icons missing form the system tray, which seemed to occur with me when I installed SP2. The solution mentioned before of logging off and then logging back on works for me and it really takes less time then going back and bringing up the individual icons one wants, particularly if many of them are missing. Some og the other solutions mentioned did not work with my computer. For example, I downloaded and ran systray.reg. Not only did I still have missing icons, but my monitor display was altered in a way that does not usually happen. I also tried deleting setupapi.dll from the windows-system 32 folder, but XP wouldn’t let me delete the file. On Wednesday, January 19, 2005 at 1:31 pm, George Zimek wrote: >Disabling uPnP seems to be the only fulproof solution to this annoying problem. Apparently >the uPnP sevices somehow interfere with the antivirus software while >it's initializing.The down side od not having uPnP enabled and running is not being >able to use P2P networking software and hardware (such as network storage devices) >that utilize uPnP. Funny thing is, my >poky P2 machine (running XP SP2) is just fine. The >problem only occurs on my P4. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Tuesday, March 1, 2005 at 6:35 pm Posted by Drewe (2 messages posted) I also have this problem, I am not sure when it started .. maybe when I installed MS Antispyware. I don't have McAfee or Norton, however I do have a few other programs which I have had for a long time so they arn't the problem. Restarting explorer worked, but I wish it didn't happen in the first place. Hopefully MS can come up with a proper fix for this as it is rather inconvenient at times. Anymore assistance from anyone would be greatly appreciated. Peace. On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Sunday, March 6, 2005 at 5:06 am Posted by ripkord (3 messages posted) I also have this problem, trouble is those two services that should be disabled to fix it are ALREADY disbaled, and its not my volume icon that is giving me the trouble, its my mp3 browser icon (notmad explorer), my firewall (sygate), bluetooth places and objectdock. I have tried practically every solution in this thread and I have also triede bootvis to try and locate the problem to no avail.... Its driving me up the wall, I dont want to have to log in with a password every time :/ (that fixes it btw - as does logging out/killing explorer) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Sunday, March 6, 2005 at 2:33 pm Posted by Drewe (2 messages posted) I actually log-in to windows but still have the problem of missing icons ... On Sunday, March 6, 2005 at 5:06 am, ripkord wrote: >I also have this problem, trouble is those two services that should be disabled to >fix it are ALREADY disbaled, and its not my volume icon that is giving me the trouble, >its my mp3 browser icon (notmad explorer), my firewall (sygate), bluetooth places >and objectdock. > >I have tried practically every solution in this thread and I have also triede bootvis >to try and locate the problem to no avail.... > >Its driving me up the wall, I dont want to have to log in with a password every time >:/ (that fixes it btw - as does logging out/killing explorer) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Sunday, March 6, 2005 at 10:42 pm Posted by ripkord (3 messages posted) Oh yeah, I never actually tried logging in more than once - that doesnt solve it after all... Damn... there must be a solution - BTW I dont have any norton products installed. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, March 10, 2005 at 2:04 pm Posted by roberto massa (1 messages posted) I do not speak the English well, but I mean to them to you that I had same the problems that you. Today with the new update of the Trend antivirus they was solved On Sunday, March 6, 2005 at 2:33 pm, Drewe wrote: >I actually log-in to windows but still have the problem of missing icons ... > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, March 17, 2005 at 2:56 pm Posted by Rick (1 messages posted) I was having the same problem the sound icon would not load to the system tray on reboot. So I made a shortcut and put it in quick launch that my work around. On Thursday, March 10, 2005 at 2:04 pm, roberto massa wrote: >I do not speak the English well, but I mean to them to you that I had same the problems >that you. Today with the new update of the Trend antivirus they was solved > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, March 23, 2005 at 7:05 pm Posted by Vinny Yamm (1 messages posted) I have an Athlon 900, 256MB, 80GB. I've recently reinstalled WinXP Pro from scratch (SP1). In about 2 days (after all the updates, including SP2), my notification area began to show the behavior described in this thread. I saw the problem when I've put taskmgr.exe to load in the startup folder. Most of the time, the CPU usage icon don't show up in tray at boot up. Neither when I close and reopen Task Manager, either by ctrl-alt-del or right-clicking the taskbar. After trying every work-around here, and none of them worked for me, I started to think about the problem... sure it's related to timing, because sometimes it works, but most of the time it doesn't. Enabling and disabling services should bring some clue about the problem, but in fact it didn't. What worked for me was optimize the system with bootvis, after about 2 days using the computer. I think the bug is somewhat related to timing or memory allocation. On Sunday, March 6, 2005 at 2:33 pm, Drewe wrote: >I actually log-in to windows but still have the problem of missing icons ... > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, March 24, 2005 at 1:20 am Posted by JS Dowker (1 messages posted) My solution is to install Startright which takes over the startup process and puts in delays (variable). It's free On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, March 28, 2005 at 8:25 pm Posted by eagle (2 messages posted) I had this problem with icons disappearing from my notebook system tray. This was after I tried installing XPSP2, but had to uninstall it because it caused my Outlook Express to stop retrieving emails. I discovered that login out and back in using an user account\profile with password helped to restore some icons to the system tray. This worked, but sometimes not all the icons would appear. I ran the uninstall of the Universal Plug and Play feature from the Add\Remove Windows components and it fixed the problem. When I re-installed the UPnP support, the problem returned. I disabled the UPnP service and the the SSDP Service and the problem has gone away. I am leaving the UPnP disabled since I don't need it. I don't have any network PnP devices that would require this feature. So, the UPnP can stay disabled along with the SSDP Service, which searches for UPnP network devices. On Saturday, February 26, 2005 at 8:12 pm, Alan wrote: >It was interesting to see that so many other people have had the problem of icons >missing form the system tray, which seemed to occur with me when I installed SP2. >The solution mentioned before of logging off and then logging back on works for me >and it really takes less time then going back and bringing up the individual icons >one wants, particularly if many of them are missing. Some og the other solutions >mentioned did not work with my computer. For example, I downloaded and ran systray.reg. >Not only did I still have missing icons, but my monitor display was altered in a >way that does not usually happen. I also tried deleting setupapi.dll from the windows-system >32 folder, but XP wouldn’t let me delete the file. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, March 28, 2005 at 8:41 pm Posted by eagle (2 messages posted) Thanks for all the posts everyone has done. It is good to know that the user community is doing what the Micro-empire is not. On Monday, March 28, 2005 at 8:25 pm, eagle wrote: >I had this problem with icons disappearing from my notebook system tray. This was >after I tried installing XPSP2, but had to uninstall it because it caused my Outlook >Express to stop retrieving emails. I discovered that login out and back in using >an user account\profile with password helped to restore some icons to the system >tray. This worked, but sometimes not all the icons would appear. I ran the uninstall >of the Universal Plug and Play feature from the Add\Remove Windows components and >it fixed the problem. When I re-installed the UPnP support, the problem returned. > I disabled the UPnP service and the the SSDP Service and the problem has gone away. > I am leaving the UPnP disabled since I don't need it. I don't have any network >PnP devices that would require this feature. So, the UPnP can stay disabled along >with the SSDP Service, which searches for UPnP network devices. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, April 4, 2005 at 4:09 pm Posted by boardtc (8 messages posted) I've had this problem for years. I got a new laptop recently (Inspiron 9200 with XP Pro) and it was occurring with it two. I spent a couple of hours tonight trying most of the above suggestions. I finally got everything working by installing the above mentioned, free, startup delayer on both machines. I delayed my program launches starting from 20 seconds and then every 5 seconds. I tried launches after 10 seconds and it did not work. My icons are back! Thanks to all contributors. My recommendation is to try this solution first. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Saturday, April 9, 2005 at 11:34 am Posted by Steven (1 messages posted) After searching through this forum I tried this solution and it worked for me. Thanks Peter for your post. I now hae all the icons back in my notification area where they belong. On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 1:18 am, Peter wrote: >Well I finally fixed it on my computer, we'll see if it works for you all.. Get a >program called RegCleaner. start it up and go to the startup tab, for me it was >showing Desktop loading twice one of the instances was (common user) the other was >not named, I deleted the common user instance, after creating a restore point ;p > >After that when I restarted it not only finished booting quicker but all the icons >were loaded properly into the notification area. > > On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >>When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >>Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >>-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >>startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >>Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going >to >>Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >>Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >>What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation >CD, >>so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Sunday, April 10, 2005 at 3:01 pm Posted by Heiko (1 messages posted) Hi, Got the same Missing Icons problem on a Dell D600 computer. Can it be that it happens more often with Dell laptops or laptops in general? I noticed that several of you mentioned they use Dell laptops. By the way, I use ZoneAlarm Pro with antivirus etc., use bluetooth devices and have a wireless network. I also travel a lot and use public hotspots. Things were fine at the beginning, but after around 1 month of heavy use of the computer things got messy and icons would disappear. Well, the trick with killing the explorer worked. All the others I need to test. I really appreciate all the good input on this forum - found no better place for answers. On Monday, April 4, 2005 at 4:09 pm, boardtc wrote: >I've had this problem for years. I got a new laptop recently (Inspiron 9200 with >XP Pro) and it was occurring with it two. I spent a couple of hours tonight trying >most of the above suggestions. > >I finally got everything working by installing the above mentioned, free, startup >delayer on both machines. I delayed my program launches starting from 20 seconds >and then every 5 seconds. I tried launches after 10 seconds and it did not work. > >My icons are back! Thanks to all contributors. > >My recommendation is to try this solution first. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Sunday, April 10, 2005 at 3:34 pm Posted by Martin Folley (1 messages posted) Same problem as everybody else. Happened on SP1 as well as SP2. Not related to my virus checker. It seems to have been triggered this time by tweakui I do have one new observation this time however. When using task manager, I always turn on the pid column, which seems to indicate the order in which an application was started (some sort of queue?). Normally the basic windows processes would be about 200-500 and my applications about 1200+. However, three or four of my applications are now showing a pid of 200-300, well before many of the XP services are initiated. I do not know how this affects XP, what dependencies are at stake etc. since I do not have sufficient expetise. I do wander, however, if XP has some sort of 'optimization' routine the 'optimizes' the start order when you log on. This would explain both the many different solutions and why even on working systems, the system tray icons can load in different orders. This is not a solution, but may help some of our blundering about in the dark? Or maybe I am just plain wrong? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Sunday, April 10, 2005 at 9:25 pm Posted by Tech Guy (2 messages posted) I FOUND THE ANSWER!!! I guess the system services weren't launching systray.exe??? I added C:\WINDOWS\System32\systray.exe to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and that solved the problem. I really hope this helps someone. I for one didn't want to disable plug n play or anything like that. Stay Blessed On Sunday, April 10, 2005 at 3:34 pm, Martin Folley wrote: >Same problem as everybody else. >Happened on SP1 as well as SP2. >Not related to my virus checker. >It seems to have been triggered this time by tweakui > >I do have one new observation this time however. >When using task manager, I always turn on the pid column, which seems to indicate >the order in which an application was started (some sort of queue?). Normally the >basic windows processes would be about 200-500 and my applications about 1200+. However, >three or four of my applications are now showing a pid of 200-300, well before many >of the XP services are initiated. I do not know how this affects XP, what dependencies >are at stake etc. since I do not have sufficient expetise. >I do wander, however, if XP has some sort of 'optimization' routine the 'optimizes' >the start order when you log on. This would explain both the many different solutions >and why even on working systems, the system tray icons can load in different orders. > >This is not a solution, but may help some of our blundering about in the dark? Or >maybe I am just plain wrong? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, April 11, 2005 at 1:07 pm Posted by Tech Guy (2 messages posted) Incase someone reads the last post and has no idea what I'm talking about here's the explaination... When you open your window manager (Windows) lot's of "required" system services are launched. The system tray is one of those services. In my case I found that the system tray wasn't launching at startup as it's supposed to. In the Windows registry (Start/Run/regedit) the address to programs that run on startup is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. I added another string to the apps that already load on startup by right clicking in the right hand side pane and choosing New String Value. I named that value System Tray then right clicked on it to Modify. In the place where it says Value Data I put C:\WINDOWS\system32\systray.exe then clicked OK. That was all I needed to do. I rebooted and incame the volume icon and the hardware removal icon. I was happy. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, April 11, 2005 at 1:42 pm Posted by Falcon (13489 messages posted) You are on Windows XP, aren't you? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, April 15, 2005 at 10:36 pm Posted by rm (1 messages posted) Sytray crashes sometimes when explorer crashes...however if your systray fails to load icons ..This can happen when your profile becomes corrupted. Create a new user and log in as that user....your systray icons come back. On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Sunday, April 24, 2005 at 7:21 am Posted by Michael Lurye (1 messages posted) The solution that worked for me was to set the status of the two services (SSDP Discovery Service and Universal Plug & Play Device Host) to Automatic, instead of disabling them. It is recommended at http://www.tech-pro.net/howto_013.html. On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 3:05 am, Sean Burns wrote: > >I've found an easier cure. It worked for me so you could try it:- >Right-click on My Computer >Click on Manage >Expand 'Services & Applications' >Highlight 'Services' >Look through list of services on the right.... >Find Universal Plug & Play Device Host >Right-click on it. >Click properties. >Change startup type to 'Disabled' >Do exactly the same with 'SSDP discovery service' >Problem should be solved. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Sunday, April 24, 2005 at 9:32 am Posted by Brent (3 messages posted) Tech Guy, You're right. I don't know if you read my post from November 2004 above...but I gave a step-by-step on how to do this...if anyone needs it. Brent Martel brent.martel@gmail.com On Sunday, April 10, 2005 at 9:25 pm, Tech Guy wrote: >I FOUND THE ANSWER!!! I guess the system services weren't launching systray.exe??? >I added C:\WINDOWS\System32\systray.exe to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run >and that solved the problem. I really hope this helps someone. I for one didn't >want to disable plug n play or anything like that. Stay Blessed > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Tuesday, April 26, 2005 at 7:24 pm Posted by Clumsy Hamster (1 messages posted) So, I read through everything that everyone mentioned and tried them all without any luck. I then did a search on removing system tray and found it to be a part to add to the registry and to activate it by either a 0 or turn it off with a 1. I entered the registry value and it worked. Here are the instructions. Open up the registry (run > regedit) browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > policies Create a new key named "Explorer" without the quotes (right click > New > Key) Create a new DWORD Value named "NoTrayItemsDisplay" without the quotes (right click > New > DWORD Value) Modify the NoTrayItemsDisplay and make sure the value is 0 (right click > Modify) Reboot and all should be fine. Good luck On Sunday, April 24, 2005 at 9:32 am, Brent wrote: >Tech Guy, > >You're right. I don't know if you read my post from November 2004 above...but I >gave a step-by-step on how to do this...if anyone needs it. > >Brent Martel >brent.martel@gmail.com > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, April 29, 2005 at 4:35 am Posted by anon (8 messages posted) Once even I had the same problem and i solved it by deleting a regitry key about systray icons. This problem occurs mostly because a registry key gets corrupted. Navigate to the following key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify. In the right pane delete the regbinary keys named 'iconstreams' and 'pasticonstream'. Close the regedit. press Ctrl+Alt+Del. In the processes find explorer.exe and click end it. This will make your desktop disappear. In the task manager, go to File->New task and type explorer.exe and press enter. This will restart your explorer and the desktop will appear. Now restart your comp immediately (this is important) without doing anything else. This process recreates the above deleted registry keys and all your icons are back. Hope this helps. ;) On Friday, April 15, 2005 at 10:36 pm, rm wrote: >Sytray crashes sometimes when explorer crashes...however if your systray fails to >load icons ..This can happen when your profile becomes corrupted. Create a new user >and log in as that user....your systray icons come back. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, April 29, 2005 at 4:53 am Posted by anon (8 messages posted) Once even I had the same problem and i solved it by deleting a regitry key about systray icons. This problem occurs mostly because a registry key gets corrupted. Navigate to the following key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify. In the right pane delete the regbinary keys named 'iconstreams' and 'pasticonstream'. Close the regedit. press Ctrl+Alt+Del. In the processes find explorer.exe and click end it. This will make your desktop disappear. In the task manager, go to File->New task and type explorer.exe and press enter. This will restart your explorer and the desktop will appear. Now restart your comp immediately (this is important) without doing anything else. This process recreates the above deleted registry keys and all your icons are back. Hope this helps. ;) On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, April 29, 2005 at 7:32 am Posted by spaceman (1 messages posted) I have had the same problem regarding the task manager icon in the system tray which shows the cpu usage. I also have tried many of the solutions here, and some work, some don't, and even then they don't always work. But I have found a permanent solution and some other partial solutions which should be helpful to everybody who is concerned about only the cpu meter icon. Other icons are not included in this fix. 1. the permanent solution is to download a third-party cpu applet which shows the meter in the systray and doesnt flake out and disappear half the time. There are many out there, but the one I used is at www.outertech.com and called "cpuusage" or something. It is a small download (487k), and has a little meter that works the opposite of the windows meter. When the meter is at the top, it's good and when it's empty, it means the cpu has no remaining capacity. Similar to a battery meter, showing spare cpu capacity, not used cpu . If you place mouse over icon it shows you the used % number. It is also color coded, with green at the top, going to yellow and red at the bottom. It takes some getting used to, but it does the job. You can set it to load at startup. 2. The partial "fix" I have discovered involves 1 or 2 steps. First, open task manager and use it to kill itself. That is, highlight taskmgr.exe inside processess, and end task. Then run another instance of it by ctl-alt-del and the meter sometimes comes back. If that doesn't work, then close it again and go to www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm and download reg tweak #113 on that page. Run this reg edit code and then try taskmgr again. Try step 1 and the cpu icon returns. This worked for me, and in fact was the ONLY thing that worked for me to return the cpu icon. But, I also like the outertech applet because it's no hassle and I don't have to live with more xp bugs with band-aid fixes. Hope this helps some of you. On Wednesday, March 23, 2005 at 7:05 pm, Vinny Yamm wrote: >I have an Athlon 900, 256MB, 80GB. >I've recently reinstalled WinXP Pro from scratch (SP1). >In about 2 days (after all the updates, including SP2), my notification area began >to show the behavior described in this thread. >I saw the problem when I've put taskmgr.exe to load in the startup folder. Most of >the time, the CPU usage icon don't show up in tray at boot up. Neither when I close >and reopen Task Manager, either by ctrl-alt-del or right-clicking the taskbar. >After trying every work-around here, and none of them worked for me, I started to >think about the problem... sure it's related to timing, because sometimes it works, >but most of the time it doesn't. Enabling and disabling services should bring some >clue about the problem, but in fact it didn't. >What worked for me was optimize the system with bootvis, after about 2 days using >the computer. I think the bug is somewhat related to timing or memory allocation. > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, May 6, 2005 at 1:59 pm Posted by Tech Guy (1 messages posted) Brent, you're right. I don't know how I skipped your post. You deserve much credit for laying out the procedure with simplicity. http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1100226216 Thanks [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, May 9, 2005 at 3:33 pm Posted by Mark (1 messages posted) When you install windows, UPnP detection is usually not started. If you are reading this forum, did you specifically enable this feature yourself by going to [Add of Remove Programs --> Add or Remove Windows Components --> Networking Services --> Details...] and clicking the box next to UPnP User Interface? Because I know I did that. And now my computer stopped displaying icons. I have been reading this thread closely and noticed a lot of the repairs involve disabling the UPnP service. UPnP is primarily and connection between a program on your computer and router, where the program gives specific port forwarding instructions to the router. Windows does not need to detect these for them to work. (However, I do know of UPnP devices over a network, such as a network printer with it's own connection on the network, that might need this service, but I know very little about such things since I only have a small home network) Also I noticed someone mention Plug and Play hardware... UPnP has nothing to do with Plug and Play hardware. UPnP is about internet connections and portforwarding and network devices making themselves known on a home network. That is why it is in "Networking Services" and not in a category like Hardware Installation or something like that. So, I took this action to fix my computer. I disabled the UPnP service and I left all of the others checked for testing purposes. My icons are back again going on 20 starts now. I hope this information is helpful. If you notice I have not done my homework on UPnP, please correct me. Thanks, Mark On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, May 13, 2005 at 5:35 am Posted by CAM (6 messages posted) The NoTrayItemsDisplay trick worked for me. Ran SP1 in classic mode, with TrendMicro antivirus, and with a password login for quite a while, and never really noticed the problem until after upgrading to SP2. Thankfully found this forum and tried the logoff/login trick. Not only did it work, lo and behold there were icons there which had never showed up before even with SP1. Reading all the posts here, it seems apparent that there are several possible causes, which would be why some of the solutions work for some people and not for others. I thought the idea of making systray.exe run either by putting it in "run" in the registry or putting a shortcut in "startup" should force the tray to refresh, so ought to be a more general-purpose solution than disabling this or that service. This had no apparent effect for me, though. I then decided to try the NoTrayItemsDisplay trick in the registry, quoted below and also described in other posts here, with different methods to achieve the same effect. I was sceptical because judging by the name of the DWORD and the notion that 1 ordinarily means "on" while 0 means "off," this looks to me like a device designed to turn off having tray icons. Setting it to 0 should be like saying I don't want to not have tray icons, which is default behavior of the system if it's functioning properly anyway. Anyway, gave it a try, and hey! It works! Who cares if it's logical or not, as long it has the desired effect! (That's not really my philosophy in life, only in Windows.) On Tuesday, April 26, 2005 at 7:24 pm, Clumsy Hamster wrote: >So, I read through everything that everyone mentioned and tried them all without >any luck. I then did a search on removing system tray and found it to be a part >to add to the registry and to activate it by either a 0 or turn it off with a 1. > I entered the registry value and it worked. Here are the instructions. > > > > Open up the registry (run > regedit) > browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion >> policies > Create a new key named "Explorer" without the quotes (right click > New > Key) > Create a new DWORD Value named "NoTrayItemsDisplay" without the quotes (right >click > New > DWORD Value) > Modify the NoTrayItemsDisplay and make sure the value is 0 (right click > Modify) > Reboot and all should be fine. > > >Good luck > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, May 20, 2005 at 5:27 am Posted by CAM (6 messages posted) Well I thought the NoTrayItemsDisplay registry setting was working, but pretty soon icons started disappearing again on about half of my boots. I don't want to fiddle around with solutions which only work some times, and nobody seems to have posted that the below solution did not work for them, so I figured I'd try it. It is working so far, knock on wood. If it stops working I'll try something else. There must be a million people having the same problem, and they may stumble across this thread eventually, so it would be nice to be able to say what really works or not. On Friday, April 29, 2005 at 4:35 am, anon wrote: >Once even I had the same problem and i solved it by deleting a regitry key about >systray icons. This problem occurs mostly because a registry key gets corrupted. > >Navigate to the following key >HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify. > >In the right pane delete the regbinary keys named 'iconstreams' and 'pasticonstream'. > >Close the regedit. >press Ctrl+Alt+Del. >In the processes find explorer.exe and click end it. This will make your desktop >disappear. >In the task manager, go to File->New task and type explorer.exe and press enter. > This will restart your explorer and the desktop will appear. > >Now restart your comp immediately (this is important) without doing anything else. >This process recreates the above deleted registry keys and all your icons are back. > > >Hope this helps. ;) > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, June 15, 2005 at 5:05 pm Posted by Asa (2 messages posted) I've had this problem for a while, but it's been worse lately. I tried the recent suggestion of deleting those binary TrayIcon registry keys, and the other steps associated. It didn't work, so I restored those keys (which I saved first). Then I tried going to My Network Places and chose Hide uPNP Devices. THIS WORKED! It also seems like it boots faster. I use some software that uses upnp to open ports on my router, so I didn't want to disable it completely. Interesting note: my router used to show up in My Network Places. I noticed it was not there anymore before I chose to Hide upnp devices. If I then choose Show upnp devices, it appears immediately, but after a reboot my router is gone from My Network Places even tho it's set to show it. This makes me think that there may be a problem related to upnp on my system... possibly resulting in the icon problem when upnp is set to show devices... I may investigate how to uninstall and reinstall as much of the network stuff as possible (later). [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 5:55 am Posted by CAM (6 messages posted) Thank you, Asa, for proving that there's life in this thread yet. Having had my hopes built up and dashed with the NoTrayItemsDisplay setting and again with the TrayNotify setting, I was thinking of giving up. Your post reminded me that several earlier posts reccommended disabling UPnP and SSDP in services. I hadn't tried that before because some people said they didn't want to not have plug-and-play working, a feeling which I also share, and also because a lot of people said it didn't solve their problem, so I figured why bother if it doesn't work anyway. Looking into it a little it turns out that UPnP and SSDP apparently not only don't have anything to do with the ordinary plug-and-play, they seem to be involved with opening a port to make your machine act as a network server, which poses a security vulnerability. Not only do I not need my machine to function as a server, I have a third-party firewall running so UPnP and SSDP shouldn't work anyway even if they are active on the system. With nothing to lose, I disabled them in services. So what happened to my system tray icons? You may guess that they still don't all appear. After a few boots I can say that I am losing less of them and the ones I do lose aren't really ones I need to have, so this may be progress. On the other hand I have a feeling I thought the same thing about the previous two fixes I tried before realizing that it sometimes actually does lose icons I want. What's next? Could try one of those utilities that delays startup of things, but I would hate to make the boot process any slower than it already is. Sigh. On Wednesday, June 15, 2005 at 5:05 pm, Asa wrote: >I've had this problem for a while, but it's been worse lately. > >I tried the recent suggestion of deleting those binary TrayIcon registry keys, and >the other steps associated. It didn't work, so I restored those keys (which I saved >first). > >Then I tried going to My Network Places and chose Hide uPNP Devices. THIS WORKED! > It also seems like it boots faster. > >I use some software that uses upnp to open ports on my router, so I didn't want to >disable it completely. > >Interesting note: >my router used to show up in My Network Places. I noticed it was not there anymore >before I chose to Hide upnp devices. If I then choose Show upnp devices, it appears >immediately, but after a reboot my router is gone from My Network Places even tho >it's set to show it. > >This makes me think that there may be a problem related to upnp on my system... possibly >resulting in the icon problem when upnp is set to show devices... > >I may investigate how to uninstall and reinstall as much of the network stuff as >possible (later). [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 6:23 pm Posted by Mack Alexander (1 messages posted) I worked on this problem for a month and finally resolved it completely. How many of you with this problem are using an autologin? I went back to entering my login password and that fixed the problem for ever. As mentioned earlier, I think it is a timing problem, but this does work. On Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 5:55 am, CAM wrote: >Thank you, Asa, for proving that there's life in this thread yet. Having had my >hopes built up and dashed with the NoTrayItemsDisplay setting and again with the >TrayNotify setting, I was thinking of giving up. > >Your post reminded me that several earlier posts reccommended disabling UPnP and >SSDP in services. I hadn't tried that before because some people said they didn't >want to not have plug-and-play working, a feeling which I also share, and also because >a lot of people said it didn't solve their problem, so I figured why bother if it >doesn't work anyway. > >Looking into it a little it turns out that UPnP and SSDP apparently not only don't >have anything to do with the ordinary plug-and-play, they seem to be involved with >opening a port to make your machine act as a network server, which poses a security >vulnerability. > >Not only do I not need my machine to function as a server, I have a third-party firewall >running so UPnP and SSDP shouldn't work anyway even if they are active on the system. > With nothing to lose, I disabled them in services. > >So what happened to my system tray icons? You may guess that they still don't all >appear. After a few boots I can say that I am losing less of them and the ones I >do lose aren't really ones I need to have, so this may be progress. On the other >hand I have a feeling I thought the same thing about the previous two fixes I tried >before realizing that it sometimes actually does lose icons I want. > >What's next? Could try one of those utilities that delays startup of things, but >I would hate to make the boot process any slower than it already is. Sigh. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 6:46 pm Posted by CAM (6 messages posted) Thanks, but I have been manually entering my username and password at boot all along. I'm jealous. On Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 6:23 pm, Mack Alexander wrote: >I worked on this problem for a month and finally resolved it completely. How many >of you with this problem are using an autologin? I went back to entering my login >password and that fixed the problem for ever. As mentioned earlier, I think it is >a timing problem, but this does work. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, June 17, 2005 at 2:27 am Posted by Asa (2 messages posted) It sounds like, in your case, it might not be the same kind of timing problem that seems to be at issue for many of us. You might want to take a look at this page: http://www.michna.com/kb/WxSystray.htm Someone is maintaining a list of things that people report working for this issue there. Not much there that hasn't already been said in this thread, but one suggestion on that page jumps out as something that might be worth trying in your case -- the program SysTrayHack... Asa On Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 6:46 pm, CAM wrote: >Thanks, but I have been manually entering my username and password at boot all along. > I'm jealous. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, June 22, 2005 at 7:12 pm Posted by gordon (1 messages posted) Saw this thread and decided to put my two cents in. Here is what I found. If you use XP's wireless config manager, that is what was causing my problem. I disabled XP control, and used the one that came with my card. My icons came back. Just something to try. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, June 22, 2005 at 10:12 pm Posted by Jilbruke (1 messages posted) This one worked for me, I had to make the Explorer key and the DWORD manually. Curiously the 'Policies' key was all lowercase ('policies') and nothing legitimate ever is, so I suspect some dodgy software has killed the key and that caused the problem. I'm on a laptop and the power meter wasn't available. after changing the key, do as another suggested, end explorer.exe and restart it, everything came up just fine, I'll reply to myself if its not permanent after a restart. On Wednesday, December 29, 2004 at 8:01 am, Joe G. Weisenhurst wrote: >While I tried many of the solutions listed here, including the UPNP disabling and >systray.exe registry entry, the only one I found to work is listed below, from an >above post. The following should be pasted into a text file and saved with an extension >of .reg in order to work. > >---cut_and_paste_from_here--- >REGEDIT4 > >[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] >"NoTrayItemsDisplay"=dword:00000000 >---end_cut_and_paste--- > >I've copied/pasted it here in order to keep the solution available in the event that >DigiPortal Software no longer hosts the file or provides the solution. Thank you >all for providing your solutions; I've seen that each one has helped at least one >other person and I am sure that they appreciate your feedback also. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, July 27, 2005 at 4:52 pm Posted by Paul (1 messages posted) Hello all... I resolved this issue on my system with the info on this site: http://www.michna.com/kb/WxSystray.htm. I installed the Java Run Time Environment and then my network connection and NAV system tray icons disappeared while logged in under my profile. It did not affect the other profiles on my system. On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Tuesday, August 2, 2005 at 8:26 pm Posted by Scott (1 messages posted) I had the same thought and then I found it in Tweak UI...there is a check box under "Taskbar and Start Menu" which says "Show taskbar notification icons"...this needs to be checked for it to show up, because it over-rides any other custom settings.... On Monday, February 14, 2005 at 6:34 pm, Dreamer wrote: >If anyone is still following this, I had the same problem. Even though I still could >not find out what was causing it. I have a feeling something in the TweakUI program >did it, but not certain. > >HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer > >NoTrayIcons REG_BINARY 01 00 00 00 > >There might be an entry like or something very similar, I do not have the entry in >front of me, because I removed it and rebooted and got my tray icons back. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, August 3, 2005 at 2:01 pm Posted by Thom (1 messages posted) This works !! Anyway for me. Spent hours to find it in many forums. Thanks. On Wednesday, February 5, 2003 at 5:33 am, PaulC wrote: >OK, try this... > >- ctl+alt+del to get up task manager >- click on "Processes" tab >- highlight the "explorer" process >- click "End Process"... this will stop your desktop. >- click on "Applications" tab >- click "New Task..." >- Type "explorer" and click OK > >This will restart the explorer which manages the desktop. With me my icons returned! >Could be something to do with the startup of explorer perhaps... just a thought. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, August 5, 2005 at 10:32 am Posted by Dan (1 messages posted) I have the same problem, I can get the icons to show up if right after I reboot I turn around and log-off as the current user and log back on. The icons work normally again until the next reboot, then I have to log off and back on again. Hopefully this workaround will work for you until someone comes out with a bug fix. On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, August 15, 2005 at 1:46 pm Posted by robert (1 messages posted) I have learned that if you wait until the drive stops flashing, about 2 to 3 minutes, before logging in, they all show up as they are supposed to. On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, August 15, 2005 at 7:43 pm Posted by Ron Spitzer (1 messages posted) I have had this problem as well. I found the solution to my problem on another site and will pass it on. It seems that if you turn on display icons for UPNP devices in the network places folder (left side under network tasks) this problem happens on a lot of systems. If you turn it off (click "hide icons for upnp devices" in the network pllaces folder left side under network tasks) the problem disappears. On Monday, August 15, 2005 at 1:46 pm, robert wrote: >I have learned that if you wait until the drive stops flashing, about 2 to 3 minutes, >before logging in, they all show up as they are supposed to. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Tuesday, August 16, 2005 at 1:53 am Posted by Steven (4 messages posted) Hi there, I've just found this thread and have experienced this problem myself. To date i've not found a real solution that is permanent, but much research has provided me with some possible answers and patch ups that temporarily fix the problem. The one fix that works for a while and is suggested by many is to delete the following file: IconCache.db which can be found in either C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data or in the user account insead of the administrator account. Upon rebooting this file will be recreated and the icons should return. If not on the reboot, they will on the next reboot. The suggestion is this file becomes corrupt for some reason and deleting it resets it. One thing many have suggested is to get rid of tweakui as that is a common cause of this problem as there's some conflict with it and windows. Unfortunately i've uninstalled tweakui and cleaned it from the registry and it still seems to be there, so something somewhere is still starting it, yet i'm unable to figure that one out just yet. I have found that when i turn on my computer and go and do something and return to it letting it sit on the log in screen for a while, it's less likely to forget the tray icons, but even that isn't always the answer. Another thing i'm noticing when this happens is some programs that start and show an icon in the taskbar also show a minimised icon on the bar as if the program is started and opened, but minimised, yet right clicking the icon gives no options to close or restore the item. To fix this i've had to shut down the program and restart it manually and it goes to the system tray as it should. I'll have a look at some of the other suggestions and ideas and see if any of those fix this problem for me or not. As i'm due for a reinstall sometime soon as i've done some software testing and have slowed my system down with a lot of garbage from it, i'm happy to test any new idea or theory and see if it helps or fixes it. On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Tuesday, August 16, 2005 at 6:52 am Posted by Lorin Ledger (1 messages posted) Here's a fix I came across somewhere (I can't remember where). This is for WinXP Pro. Instructions assume you are using the default view settings. 1. Open My Network Places. 2. On the left click "Hide icons for networked UPnP devices." This does not disable such devices, it just hides the icons. 3. Rejoice that the solution was that simple. On Tuesday, August 16, 2005 at 1:53 am, Steven wrote: >Hi there, > >I've just found this thread and have experienced this problem myself. > >To date i've not found a real solution that is permanent, but much research has provided >me with some possible answers and patch ups that temporarily fix the problem. > >The one fix that works for a while and is suggested by many is to delete the following >file: IconCache.db which can be found in either C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local >Settings\Application Data or in the user account insead of the administrator account. >Upon rebooting this file will be recreated and the icons should return. If not on >the reboot, they will on the next reboot. >The suggestion is this file becomes corrupt for some reason and deleting it resets >it. > >One thing many have suggested is to get rid of tweakui as that is a common cause >of this problem as there's some conflict with it and windows. >Unfortunately i've uninstalled tweakui and cleaned it from the registry and it still >seems to be there, so something somewhere is still starting it, yet i'm unable to >figure that one out just yet. > >I have found that when i turn on my computer and go and do something and return to >it letting it sit on the log in screen for a while, it's less likely to forget the >tray icons, but even that isn't always the answer. > >Another thing i'm noticing when this happens is some programs that start and show >an icon in the taskbar also show a minimised icon on the bar as if the program is >started and opened, but minimised, yet right clicking the icon gives no options to >close or restore the item. To fix this i've had to shut down the program and restart >it manually and it goes to the system tray as it should. > >I'll have a look at some of the other suggestions and ideas and see if any of those >fix this problem for me or not. > >As i'm due for a reinstall sometime soon as i've done some software testing and have >slowed my system down with a lot of garbage from it, i'm happy to test any new idea >or theory and see if it helps or fixes it. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Tuesday, August 16, 2005 at 9:02 pm Posted by Ricco (1 messages posted) Yes, I have the same problem. It does seem that windows xp is booting too fast that it misses or loads the icons incorrectly, and its seems only when I boot windows entirely. Its fine if you log off, and re-log back in - and it loads fine. Usually I'll boot-up, log in and then log off right away, and then re-log back in and it loads everything fine. Seems like when windows is booting up - so many tasks its doing at startup that it misses a few task icons because its loading so many things at once at startup - so many things that it loses a few startup icons at startup. I just log-off and relog back in and it seems to be fine, since when relogin in its not doing soo many tasks as it does from startup. I'll try that program that delays a few startup programs and see if that solves my problem - which seems like the same symptom. On Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 9:21 am, texfisk wrote: >Just upgraded to XP and had the same problem. It seems that XP boots so fast that >the Icons may not get into the system tray even thought the programs are running. >I found a freeware program that allows you to delay the start of programs in then >statup folder. It seems to fix the problem. Here is the link http://www.r2.com.au/downloads/index.html?id=startdelay > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, August 17, 2005 at 1:24 pm Posted by Para (1 messages posted) Oh ho hum! Have had the problem too. So many fixes & so many solutions... I just accept that all programs are not going to work with others all the time really well. So I just accept it and log off and on again. McAfee, Norton, Zone Alarm, Microsoft, MacIntosh, etc., etc. are wayyyyy to busy with other more important things to be bothered with this peewee problem. Get over it & move along with your lives! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Tuesday, August 23, 2005 at 5:02 pm Posted by David Perry (1 messages posted) I went through all of these posts with no luck until I found this site. http://www.michna.com/kb/WxSystray.htm It turns out my problem was a result of running a Stardock program called "Stardock Central". If this solution doesn't help others, this page I provided will. On Tuesday, August 16, 2005 at 6:52 am, Lorin Ledger wrote: >Here's a fix I came across somewhere (I can't >remember where). This is for WinXP Pro. Instructions >assume you are using the default view settings. > >1. Open My Network Places. > >2. On the left click "Hide icons for networked UPnP >devices." This does not disable such devices, it just >hides the icons. > >3. Rejoice that the solution was that simple. > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, September 23, 2005 at 8:39 pm Posted by ripkord (3 messages posted) Excellent, uninstalling stardock central did it for me! Thank you !! (x10000000000000) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, September 26, 2005 at 12:54 pm Posted by foo (1 messages posted) Of course those services had nothing do with TRAY ICONS? How the !#%! did you come up with the idea that tray icons and those services had anything to do with eachother?! On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 6:37 am, Peter wrote: >Turned out my fix didn't work, the first time i restarted it was fine but then returned >to normal. /shrug > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, October 19, 2005 at 1:34 am Posted by Peter Brown (1 messages posted) I discovered my systray icons disappeared when I turned off 'show desktop icons' on my desktop - when I turned this back on again my systray icons reappeared ! On Monday, September 26, 2005 at 12:54 pm, foo wrote: >Of course those services had nothing do with TRAY ICONS? How the !#%! did you come >up with the idea that tray icons and those services had anything to do with eachother?! > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, October 21, 2005 at 6:10 am Posted by Brent (3 messages posted) I think we can all agree that this is a Microsoft bug and that it is annoying to have to "bandaid" something that Microsoft shoud fix. That being said, the general thought on this forum are that this is related to Win XP booting too fast and/or conflicts with UPnP. Why spend time trying to think of ways to delay startup or dissable services that have other uses....why not just force you system tray to load and leave this issue behind? Hope this helps... Bottom line is that you want your system tray to run at startup....system tray includes the windows sound icon, network connections, power monitor etc. PLEASE CREATE RESTORE POINT NOW!!!! If you mess up at any point just restore to this restore point and start again NOTE: Don't type in the quotes when entering data below. None of this will affect third party applications running in your computer's system tray as systray.exe and the others are independent. Run the window registry editor (START, RUN, regedit) You need to create a new String Value called "systray" in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Then give in the value: "C:\WINDOWS\system32\systray.exe" To do all this: 1. START, RUN, type "regedit", hit enter 2. Once in the Registry Editor, navigate the left directory tree to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run 3. Then right click on the right window pane, click new, then string value. 4. Give the new string value the name "systray" 5. Your new value should now have the name "systray", the type "REG_SZ", and no data. 6. Right click on your new "systray" value and click "modify". 7. Now give "systray" the value data: "C:\WINDOWS\system32\systray.exe" 8. Click ok and close the Registry Editor. 9. Restart your computer. You should now have your systray back at boot. Hope this helps. Email me if anybody gets stuck. Brent CANADA On Wednesday, October 19, 2005 at 1:34 am, Peter Brown wrote: >I discovered my systray icons disappeared when I turned off 'show desktop icons' >on my desktop - when I turned this back on again my systray icons reappeared ! > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Sunday, October 23, 2005 at 6:42 pm Posted by Don (2 messages posted) Thanks for your help, after struggling for a long time, your suggestion fixed the problem. Thank you On Friday, September 10, 2004 at 12:12 am, Ed Vasicek wrote: >I tried the Log Off and then logged back on and you are right. At least it works >for me. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] It worked! Monday, October 24, 2005 at 7:06 am Posted by J (2 messages posted) I downloaded this file and added it to my startup options. All of my icons load without any problem and it seems that my startup is even quicker. I had the same problem as everyone else. I run Windows XP SP2, however, I also use WindowBlinds as my shell replacement. I am using Norton SystemWorks 2005 (which includes Norton AntiVirus 2005). I had been suffering through this issue for quite some time and was never able to find a decent fix until this one. I'd highly recommend for anyone who is seeing this problem to try this fix before disabling or removing any system services. On Friday, February 14, 2003 at 12:25 am, Don wrote: >The alternate answer: SysTrayHack! > >Simple to use, just add it to your startup group, or configure your shell to launch >it automatically on startup, and you're good to go. >http://desktopian.org/addons/systray2kfix.zip > >A common problem for folks using any shell other than explorer with Win2k, is the >'missing tray icons' incompatibility (system-level tray icons strangely fail to >appear when any shell but explorer is running). But, main, the developer of the Graphite >shell managed to track it down and nail the issue under Graphite, and now his fix >has been massaged into shape to work with any shell, in the form of 'SysTrayHack, >an item tossed together by LS devteam member Joachim Calvert/NeXTer. > >Copy & Paste: (from http://www.desktopian.org/appsi_comp.html) > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: It worked! Monday, October 24, 2005 at 7:43 am Posted by J (2 messages posted) I apologize, I lied... It worked ONCE. I restarted my computer and noticed that the systray.exe entry I had added to my startup options was removed so I re-added it and now, the problem continues to exist. I added systray.exe (found in the WINDOWS directory) to my startup as stated by another person in an above post and that option failed for me as well. I have noticed that more icons appear after startup but not all of them appear (I'd say less than a quarter of my taskbar icons actually appear). This issue is driving me mad... On Monday, October 24, 2005 at 7:06 am, J wrote: >I downloaded this file and added it to my startup options. All of my icons load without >any problem and it seems that my startup is even quicker. > >I had the same problem as everyone else. I run Windows XP SP2, however, I also use >WindowBlinds as my shell replacement. I am using Norton SystemWorks 2005 (which includes >Norton AntiVirus 2005). > >I had been suffering through this issue for quite some time and was never able to >find a decent fix until this one. I'd highly recommend for anyone who is seeing this >problem to try this fix before disabling or removing any system services. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, November 21, 2005 at 1:20 pm Posted by Gerry (1 messages posted) I found that if you open add/remove window components in control panel and then open the netwok services and deselect the UPnP User Interface then reboot. This worked for me. On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, November 30, 2005 at 10:28 am Posted by Thingfish (1 messages posted) This Fix worked like a charm but I wanted to add this bit of information. When I searched for the registry key it was set incorrectly to a binary key (REG_BINARY) instead of a dword key (REG_DWORD). Possibly a spware or malware program changed it to a Binary key and set it to 1. Very odd. Thanks to everyone who posted this fix. On Tuesday, April 26, 2005 at 7:24 pm, Clumsy Hamster wrote: >So, I read through everything that everyone mentioned and tried them all without >any luck. I then did a search on removing system tray and found it to be a part >to add to the registry and to activate it by either a 0 or turn it off with a 1. > I entered the registry value and it worked. Here are the instructions. > > > > Open up the registry (run > regedit) > browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion >> policies > Create a new key named "Explorer" without the quotes (right click > New > Key) > Create a new DWORD Value named "NoTrayItemsDisplay" without the quotes (right >click > New > DWORD Value) > Modify the NoTrayItemsDisplay and make sure the value is 0 (right click > Modify) > Reboot and all should be fine. > > >Good luck > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, December 9, 2005 at 3:14 pm Posted by Mike Newhall (1 messages posted) Thank you! I have spent hours trying everything and only your (Kelly's) solution worked. I should point out some things I learned that may not be obvious: 1. The Task Manager CPU meter icon missing is a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PROBLEM than all the other people's icon problems, and has nothing to do with UPnP or startup timing. 2. I noticed that the Task Manager problem only appears in the Classic Style, and switching to the Windows XP Style always solved it. This didn't help me because I can't stand the XP style... Also, just to summarize a clarification mentioned elsewhere, UPnP is *not* the same thing as Plug & Play, which is about hardware and has been around since Windows 95. UPnP is new with WinXP and is about Windows discovering network devices automatically. You can safely turn it off and still have hardware installations work as before. You may even want to since UPnP can be a source of security and other problems. For example, when I recently installed XP again, XP silently and cheerfully found my new UPnP router and RECONFIGURED IT. Voila, no more Internet. Only took five hours or so to figure that one out. Thanks, Windows Development Team! On Friday, April 29, 2005 at 7:32 am, spaceman wrote: >I have had the same problem regarding the task manager icon in the system tray which >shows the cpu usage... [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Tuesday, December 13, 2005 at 5:42 am Posted by Philip (2 messages posted) Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this - I am yet another person suffering this infuriating problem. I think for me using the early tip of 'log-off and on again' (which works for me ) is just fine. anyway what I wanted to add to the melting pot was the observation that I have read, on the well-respected Gibson Research Corp site, that it is a positively good thing to disable UPnP for security reasons. That's quite an old observation by them, but they haven't taken it down, so perhaps its' still valid even post-SP2. For what it's worth ,the link is http://www.grc.com/freepopular.htm ---- Philip On Friday, December 9, 2005 at 3:14 pm, Mike Newhall wrote: > Thank you! I have spent hours trying everything and only your (Kelly's) solution >worked. I should point out some things I learned that may not be obvious: > >1. The Task Manager CPU meter icon missing is a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PROBLEM than >all the other people's icon problems, and has nothing to do with UPnP or startup >timing. > >2. I noticed that the Task Manager problem only appears in the Classic Style, and >switching to the Windows XP Style always solved it. This didn't help me because >I can't stand the XP style... > > Also, just to summarize a clarification mentioned elsewhere, UPnP is *not* the >same thing as Plug & Play, which is about hardware and has been around since Windows >95. UPnP is new with WinXP and is about Windows discovering network devices automatically. > You can safely turn it off and still have hardware installations work as before. > You may even want to since UPnP can be a source of security and other problems. > For example, when I recently installed XP again, XP silently and cheerfully found >my new UPnP router and RECONFIGURED IT. Voila, no more Internet. Only took five >hours or so to figure that one out. Thanks, Windows Development Team! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Sunday, January 8, 2006 at 9:38 pm Posted by phil carlon (1 messages posted) reloaded windows and icons missing in task tray...tried lots of ways to restore them but no joy...but this solution fixed it thanx phil On Wednesday, February 5, 2003 at 5:33 am, PaulC wrote: >OK, try this... > >- ctl+alt+del to get up task manager >- click on "Processes" tab >- highlight the "explorer" process >- click "End Process"... this will stop your desktop. >- click on "Applications" tab >- click "New Task..." >- Type "explorer" and click OK > >This will restart the explorer which manages the desktop. With me my icons returned! >Could be something to do with the startup of explorer perhaps... just a thought. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, January 11, 2006 at 3:31 am Posted by Karel Spaas (1 messages posted) For what its worth..here are my observations. The trick with Taskmanagement (stop explorer and start it again) got me 5 of the 6 taskbar icon's I should see (Microsoft anti Spyware Beta icon missing). The trick with a change in registry (Clumsy Hamster) did not work for me. The only way to get them all six back is to login manually. For example ,when I login automatically I get only three icon's (Kaspersky Antivirus, a Realtek icon and the Wireless Network icon). Signing off and signing on manually with password gives me back all six icon's. This faulty behavour of XP (Home or Professional) classicstyle I can show on two PC's and one laptop. Hope somebody will find the ultimate solution for it some day..... Best Regards Karel On Sunday, January 8, 2006 at 9:38 pm, phil carlon wrote: >reloaded windows and icons missing in task tray...tried lots of ways to restore them >but no joy...but this solution fixed it >thanx >phil > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Saturday, January 14, 2006 at 6:07 pm Posted by Tim Donahey (1 messages posted) This totally worked for me, thanks Sean. On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 3:05 am, Sean Burns wrote: > >I've found an easier cure. It worked for me so you could try it:- >Right-click on My Computer >Click on Manage >Expand 'Services & Applications' >Highlight 'Services' >Look through list of services on the right.... >Find Universal Plug & Play Device Host >Right-click on it. >Click properties. >Change startup type to 'Disabled' >Do exactly the same with 'SSDP discovery service' >Problem should be solved. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Sunday, January 22, 2006 at 2:31 pm Posted by Tanker Bob (1 messages posted) This problem has plagued me since not long after installing XPPro SP2 when it came out. I've found more USEFUL information on this thread than anywhere else. My situation appears to be fixed. I Disabled UPnP and SSDP Discovery Services plus added the explorer registry key. I also found success using the free r2 Startup Delayer after disabling the services but before adding the registry entry. In the end I chose to go without Startup Delayer because I change my software configuration often, which would be complicated by the Delayer setup. BTW, I could never get Bootvis to complete a run without crashing. So far, so good. Thanks to everyone for the very productive discussion! [Reply or follow-up to this message] Solution Tuesday, January 24, 2006 at 6:03 pm Posted by Christopher Burton (1 messages posted) I am running a Hp compaq nx9005 XP SP2 and I am had the same probs as everyone else. First of all moan about Microsoft in everyway possible for being awkward with their software but then apologise cos they have actually made a damn good and friendly easy to use environment, they buggered up a few bits but give them a break, their only human.....apparently. The only way to get around it whilst still using Upnp and SSDP is to make sure they run manually, add in this registry setting (copied from Brents post, thanks) Run the window registry editor (START, RUN, regedit) You need to create a new String Value called "systray" in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Then give in the value: "C:\WINDOWS\system32\systray.exe" To do all this: 1. START, RUN, type "regedit", hit enter 2. Once in the Registry Editor, navigate the left directory tree to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run 3. Then right click on the right window pane, click new, then string value. 4. Give the new string value the name "systray" 5. Your new value should now have the name "systray", the type "REG_SZ", and no data. 6. Right click on your new "systray" value and click "modify". 7. Now give "systray" the value data: "C:\WINDOWS\system32\systray.exe" 8. Click ok and close the Registry Editor. 9. Restart your computer. Next you must perform this registry change (this copied from the Clumsy Hamster, thanks) 1. Open up the registry (run > regedit) browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > 2. Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > policies 3. Create a new key named "Explorer" without the quotes (right click > New > Key) 4. Create a new DWORD Value named "NoTrayItemsDisplay" without the quotes (right click > New > DWORD Value) 5. Modify the NoTrayItemsDisplay and make sure the value is 0 (right click > Modify) Once these have been done ensure that "systray" in msconfig>startup is enabled by the tick box. By doing these steps you have also ensured the UPnP is still functioning for the networking side of things (being my job I kinda needed it) Restart the machine and problem solved. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, January 30, 2006 at 5:01 am Posted by Rob (1 messages posted) thanks man this seems to have fixed my problem aswell good call... i've been trying to find a fix for this for some time thanks again. On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 3:05 am, Sean Burns wrote: > >I've found an easier cure. It worked for me so you could try it:- >Right-click on My Computer >Click on Manage >Expand 'Services & Applications' >Highlight 'Services' >Look through list of services on the right.... >Find Universal Plug & Play Device Host >Right-click on it. >Click properties. >Change startup type to 'Disabled' >Do exactly the same with 'SSDP discovery service' >Problem should be solved. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Sunday, February 12, 2006 at 1:10 pm Posted by Navdeep Kundra (1 messages posted) Thanks. This had been bugging me for ages and im so glad its now fixed. On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 3:05 am, Sean Burns wrote: > >I've found an easier cure. It worked for me so you could try it:- >Right-click on My Computer >Click on Manage >Expand 'Services & Applications' >Highlight 'Services' >Look through list of services on the right.... >Find Universal Plug & Play Device Host >Right-click on it. >Click properties. >Change startup type to 'Disabled' >Do exactly the same with 'SSDP discovery service' >Problem should be solved. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Sunday, February 12, 2006 at 7:24 pm Posted by Dave Burton (2 messages posted) On Thursday, March 6, 2003 at 1:15 pm, Don wrote: > I've found another solution about this problem. You have to > remove setupapi.dll (for sound icon) from your windows folder. Setupapi.dll was in c:\windows\system32\ and also in c:\windows\system32\dllcache\ on this PC, and when I renamed it to *.bak in both places, Windows would no longer boot (it went into a reboot loop). -Dave [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, February 13, 2006 at 7:39 am Posted by Mike Bettua (2 messages posted) A patch-em-up idea... Ok, I've had this problem (the volume control disappearing for no reason at bootup time), and here's what I've come up with... at first I blamed Yahoo, AOL, and SUN JAVA (Which by the way if you remove sun java you should get significantly fewer popups) but came to the conclusion that I have absolutely no idea what the problem is. So, a temporary, but not complete solution would be to put a shorcut to the audio control applet in the quicklaunch bar. Usefull only if you want somewhat quick access to the mute control. Also, another problem I noticed (seemed to happen only at yahoo) is that the mute feature does not always work. I would put it on mute and someone or something would take it off. Hope this helps. And hopefully there will be an official solution soon. (some people, myself included) like to keep a fully functional and fully visible original/genuine volume control icon in the systray at all times. PS: I've noticed the problem on all versions of XP Pro. On Sunday, February 12, 2006 at 7:24 pm, Dave Burton wrote: > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, February 15, 2006 at 4:14 am Posted by Ryne Colt Radigan (1 messages posted) Well I feel dumb my system tray wasn't showing becuase I told my computer not to show it. I was messing around in TweakUI and checked the wrong box. It was a post previouse to this that got me thinking about TweakUI as the culprit. Thanks for the help everyone. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, February 15, 2006 at 6:34 am Posted by Dave Burton (2 messages posted) On Sunday, February 12, 2006 at 7:24 pm, Dave Burton wrote: } On Thursday, March 6, 2003 at 1:15 pm, Don wrote: }} I've found another solution about this problem. You have to }} remove setupapi.dll (for sound icon) from your windows folder. } } Setupapi.dll was in c:\windows\system32\ and also in } c:\windows\system32\dllcache\ on this PC, and when } I renamed it to *.bak in both places, Windows would no } longer boot (it went into a reboot loop). } } -Dave Fortunately, I keep a Bart PE CD (CD-bootable Windows XP) handy, so I just booted from the CD and renamed Setupapi.bak back to *.dll, and XP once again booted correctly. I think what happens that breaks the SysTray is that ONE of the programs fails, and SysTray is too stupid to just recover from it and do the rest. This is a common theme in Windows. For example, if you have a damaged registry entry for one of your hardware devices, Device Manager might not show the other devices, either. In my case, in the course of trying to resolve some virus and spyware infections on this machine (it's not my machine, BTW), I had disabled many things that I thought were probably unnecessary. Since it is a desktop machine, I didn't think it would need batmeter.dll, and I had renamed it to *.bak. Big mistake! When I eventually got around to renaming it back to *.dll, my volume control icon came back to the SysTray (after a reboot). -Dave [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, February 17, 2006 at 7:52 pm Posted by meh (1 messages posted) Hello, I think I may have a solution that may or may not be universal for this particular dilemma. Firstly, I too suffered from the same agonizing pain that stems from a mysterious sporadic disappearance of the precious volume icon from the notification area. I was going absolutely insane trying to figure out what was wrong because it did not make any sense. So I sifted through each and every fix posted on this site and still absolutely nothing. However, I can finally see the pretty little speaker sitting quite comfortably at the bottom right corner of my screen and this is the story of my struggle and triumph over the annoyance. I'm typing away some assembly code at a virtual dos prompt using an assembler that is not compatible at all with the nt virtual dos environment. After linking files, windows kept reporting an error with ntvdm.exe. This, I discovered is used to setup the virtual dos environment. Anyway, it seemed innocent so I figured everything was fine. I just closed the prompt and opened it up again to continue. After a few compilation and linking operations, the linker started reporting strange errors. "Fatal error: Out of memory." The error became more interesting when I restared the machine and sometimes it compiled while at other times it still reported the error. Still. Volume icon was there. Everything seemed fine. Now, prior--and completely separate--to this I was having some disturbance in the video/audio realm of things. In particular, videos in the new XviD codec were not playing. After installing GSpot and putting two and two together, the problem was rooted in the audio codec (tag 55). If I disabled sound completely in bios, videos with that particular codec, played fine. Proof that it was specifically the audio is still not concrete though since the player could be blamed for the matter at hand. So I installed VLC to use in place of Windows Media Player and to my surprise, the video played with sound! Aha! I thought. Windows Media Player is the culprit, that is, until I consulted the video information in VLC. The audio was being played at 32 kHz instead of the intended 48 kHz. Additionally, the codec it was using was not at all the one GSpot reported was needed. I then ventured into control panel and under the "Sounds and Audio devices" panel looked at the various codecs on my system. The audio codec reported by GSpot as missing was indeed present but for whatever reason, Windows Media Player and VLC alike, were not utilizing it to decode the audio. Strange, I thought, but with my eyelids becoming heavier, I uninstalled VLC, turned off the computer and went to bed. The following day I pressed the power button the same I do every other time. It booted up like it does everytime and I clicked on Windows Media Player to play some mp3s. The amplitude of the music, seeming too high, needed to be lowered I thought and so I reached for the bottom righ... It was gone. I described these earlier events to lay the groundwork for two particular interactions that may have caused the problem to occur in the first place. It was either the compilation of ".com" programs, which have access to even system areas in ram or the uninstallation of VLC, which may have taken some system settings out with itself. The union of these two facts results in the underlying truth that it was indeed a system problem. When I first went into control panel and the "Sounds and Audio devices" panel, the list of audio and video codecs was blanked in it's entirety. Also, after selecting a midi synthesizer device, applying the settings and pressing, the drop-down box for the synthesizer device kept going back to being blank.Very odd, especially considering I had taken no action to produce this result. Well, I had to have done something. Perhaps it wasn't a "conscious" effort. It only became stranger when the media files that played fine before were still playing with WMP. Exhaustive research and trial of every possible solution led me to this article. Interesting, I thought. Maybe the audio driver is corrupted or the registry entries related to it and communication between the driver and systray is broken. It made perfect sense then to uninstall and reinstall the sound drivers. What made no sense is that it still didn't work. Perhaps a corrupted systray.exe then. Replacing this did not however, do the trick. So I went back to the control panel and stared at the blank list seeking some sort of peace from the vast white rectangle in front of my eyes. Finding nothing but turmoil and uneasiness over what seemed like the ultimate bug, unfixable, doomed for failure! Desperate thinking led me to conclude that it HAD to be directly related to the fact that all my audio and video codecs somehow disappeared mysteriously and the only way to get the default ones was to reinstall windows. And thus, this is exactly what I did. I first uninstalled the drivers for sound. Then I deleted the backup drivers from \System32\Reinstall Backups. To do that though, I had to remove it from the registry. While in the registry, I removed all entries related to the sound drivers by searching for the Hardware IDs and Class IDs that each entry related to. This is a fairly involved process as you could cripple windows quite easily but even I was only experimenting and to a certain extent was lucky that I didn’t ruin things beyond repair. If you have no clue what you’re doing, then you are going to need someone to help you or you can read a bit about the windows registry. There is a plethora of resources available on the internet. Once most traces of the existence of an audio driver were removed, I restarted windows and disabled the onboard audio from bios. This was done to prevent windows from nagging me that it had found a new audio device and attempting to install the driver for it. If you have a PCI card, then just turn off the computer and remove it from the motherboard. I even uninstalled all of Windows Media Player from Add/Remove Windows Components. Once I checked that windows detected no existence of any sound device from “Sounds and Audio devices” in Control Panel and dxdiag.exe (if you have DirectX installed), I proceeded to reinstall Windows overtop the existing installation. The installation went smoothly and after booting up, low and behold all the missing codecs were back. This was indeed a good sign. After inserting the CD that contained my audio drivers, I installed them and went to “Sounds and Audio devices”. With my breath held and my face turning blue, I checked on the option to place the volume control in the taskbar and pressed apply. My eyes opened and loud gasp preceded a louder scream of frustration. The icon did not show up. Not giving up hope I restarted the computer. Sacre bleu! There it was! And still is! The volume icon came back! It probably didn’t show up at first due to drivers not taking effect without Windows being restarted. Ahhh…What a pretty site, I thought to myself as I reclined in my chair and breathed a sigh of relief. I thanked God, had a good laugh and just turned off the computer for a day or two. Needless to say, I won’t be testing my crummy assembly language skills on a windows machine, at least not yet. And VLC seems too risky so it shall stay untouched. On a final note, I’d like to add that even the XviD files, the ones that use mp3 audio decoder (tag 55), are working now as well. Of course, this only added to my amusement, which thereafter became joy. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, February 23, 2006 at 6:06 am Posted by Michael Dubar (1 messages posted) I have tried all the solutions involving changes to the registry and refreshing the explorer process, but none with lasting success. Now I have turned SSDP and UpnP to Automatic under Administrative Tools -> Services and all seems to be resolved. My thanks to Jose Luis Diez at the following forum on the same subject... http://www.michna.com/kb/WxSystray.htm [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, March 6, 2006 at 1:58 pm Posted by David (1 messages posted) This Worked 100% on 2 machines 1 running XP sp1 and one running XP sp2 both with NAV 2005 Thanks Heeps...... David On Wednesday, December 29, 2004 at 8:01 am, Joe G. Weisenhurst wrote: >While I tried many of the solutions listed here, including the UPNP disabling and >systray.exe registry entry, the only one I found to work is listed below, from an >above post. The following should be pasted into a text file and saved with an extension >of .reg in order to work. > >---cut_and_paste_from_here--- >REGEDIT4 > >[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] >"NoTrayItemsDisplay"=dword:00000000 >---end_cut_and_paste--- > >I've copied/pasted it here in order to keep the solution available in the event that >DigiPortal Software no longer hosts the file or provides the solution. Thank you >all for providing your solutions; I've seen that each one has helped at least one >other person and I am sure that they appreciate your feedback also. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Tuesday, March 7, 2006 at 7:02 pm Posted by Greg Hudson (2 messages posted) I too have been searching for a solution to the missing Icons, and came across the following utility that fixes it for Win9x machines - but not XP :-( http://www.xwen.org/products.html The situation went out of control for me this morning with ALL icons disappearing. I went through the task list deleting things I didn't think were needed, and by the time I'd finished, the Icons had returned (but I can't say exactly what it was that I killed that caused them to come back). More experimentation needed. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, March 24, 2006 at 11:44 pm Posted by Rebecca (1 messages posted) This has bugged me for days - thank you guys for helping fix the problem. It ws only after reading through all the post and keeping seeing plug and play issues coming up that something clicked. My solution that has solved this issue (in my case battery meter, volume icon missing) was: Start My Network Places Under networked tasks I clicked on 'hide icons for networked UPnP devices' XP went through the component installation process - I then rebooted and everything is back to normal. If I hadn't seen all the posts re plug and play I wouldn't have thought of trying this. Hope it helps some others On Tuesday, March 7, 2006 at 7:02 pm, Greg Hudson wrote: >I too have been searching for a solution to the missing Icons, and came across the >following utility that fixes it for Win9x machines - but not XP :-( > >http://www.xwen.org/products.html > >The situation went out of control for me this morning with ALL icons disappearing. >I went through the task list deleting things I didn't think were needed, and by the >time I'd finished, the Icons had returned (but I can't say exactly what it was that >I killed that caused them to come back). More experimentation needed. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Please let the old critter die of old age! Saturday, March 25, 2006 at 12:34 am Posted by Kiwi (2212 messages posted) This thread is four years old, long, slow to load already, etc. If there is actually any possible reason to supply an additional iota of verbiage to this decrepit old beast, do it in a new thread of your own, and include a LINK to one single message out of the mess that needs further elaboration, OK? . Kiwi ** On Friday, March 24, 2006 at 11:44 pm, Rebecca wrote: >This has bugged me for days - thank you guys for helping fix the problem. It ws >only after reading through all the post and keeping seeing plug and play issues coming >up that something clicked. > >My solution that has solved this issue (in my case battery meter, volume icon missing) >was: > >Start >My Network Places >Under networked tasks I clicked on 'hide icons for networked UPnP devices' > >XP went through the component installation process - I then rebooted and everything >is back to normal. > >If I hadn't seen all the posts re plug and play I wouldn't have thought of trying >this. Hope it helps some others > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Saturday, April 15, 2006 at 6:50 pm Posted by Phil Swinney (2 messages posted) After going through all these posts, there seems to be one program that sticks out--StarDock, whether it's Star Dock Central, ObjectDock or in my case, ObjectBar, the problem didn't appear until I used ObjectBar for the first time. Uninstalling the program didn't fix the problem. And most of these quick fixes don't work for my particular situation. I wonder, however, how many others have any of the StarDock programs installed on their machines and are experiencing any system tray woes. On Tuesday, August 23, 2005 at 5:02 pm, David Perry wrote: >I went through all of these posts with no luck until I found this site. http://www.michna.com/kb/WxSystray.htm >It turns out my problem was a result of running a Stardock program called "Stardock >Central". If this solution doesn't help others, this page I provided will. > > > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Please let the old critter die of old age! Saturday, April 15, 2006 at 7:16 pm Posted by Phil Swinney (2 messages posted) Seems to me that in all these posts in the four years this has been here and in over the 30,000 times this website, http://www.michna.com/kb/WxSystray.htm, has been visited, then the problem has been around for a while. If ANY of the suggestions or fixes listed above can help someone, then what's YOUR problem. If you don't have anything relevant to add in your 1700 posts, then please, allow those who are truely searching for a solution to continue helping one another. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, April 21, 2006 at 4:17 pm Posted by John (1 messages posted) I had a similar problem. I fixed it by going into the Power Options and opening the Advanced tab. In the options area, if your ‘Always show icon in the taskbar’ is ticked, then untick it and hit apply and OK. Then repeat the process and this time tick that option again and hit apply and OK. It seems to reset the icon. On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, April 28, 2006 at 1:07 am Posted by john kochik (1 messages posted) aol triangle icon missing from system tray where volume contol located...april 28, 2006 at 1:00 am > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] icons appear and disappear Monday, May 8, 2006 at 11:17 pm Posted by adi (1 messages posted) when i start da computer da touchpad icon and power meter was not present and after i restarted da computer it was present why is it like tat????????????? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: The problem Monday, June 5, 2006 at 1:40 pm Posted by Ste (1 messages posted) Having a log off and then a new log on solves the problem for me too; since my machine boots in seconds, I think booting speed can actually be the problem. Thanks for the suggestion, Ste On Tuesday, December 14, 2004 at 12:01 am, Grond wrote: > >The problem is that Microsoft's desire to make XP boot up faster inspired them to >make everything load at once and the system tray is loading before the apps that >have icons in the system tray are loading. If logging off and logging back on (not >restarting) fixes your system tray then that is definitely your problem. All virus >scanners as well as the plug and play service are system hogs which exacerbates the >problem. The workarounds are: >1) Make your system tray load last >2) Give your computer more time to boot >3) Load less things at start up >There are various methods and utilties for doing these some of which have been mentioned. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, August 3, 2006 at 6:08 pm Posted by Cris (1 messages posted) This worked very well for me. - Cris On Friday, April 29, 2005 at 4:35 am, anon wrote: >Once even I had the same problem and i solved it by deleting a regitry key about >systray icons. This problem occurs mostly because a registry key gets corrupted. > >Navigate to the following key >HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify. > >In the right pane delete the regbinary keys named 'iconstreams' and 'pasticonstream'. > >Close the regedit. >press Ctrl+Alt+Del. >In the processes find explorer.exe and click end it. This will make your desktop >disappear. >In the task manager, go to File->New task and type explorer.exe and press enter. > This will restart your explorer and the desktop will appear. > >Now restart your comp immediately (this is important) without doing anything else. >This process recreates the above deleted registry keys and all your icons are back. > > >Hope this helps. ;) > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, August 4, 2006 at 6:28 am Posted by sherry (1 messages posted) Same problem here, and HOT DOG, This worked perfect. It really fixed the problem. I don't know what I would do if it wasn't for people like you trying to help. Guess have a messed up puter! lol Thanks so much!! On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 3:05 am, Sean Burns wrote: > >I've found an easier cure. It worked for me so you could try it:- >Right-click on My Computer >Click on Manage >Expand 'Services & Applications' >Highlight 'Services' >Look through list of services on the right.... >Find Universal Plug & Play Device Host >Right-click on it. >Click properties. >Change startup type to 'Disabled' >Do exactly the same with 'SSDP discovery service' >Problem should be solved. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, August 10, 2006 at 10:35 pm Posted by nkp (1 messages posted) I tried almost all the suggestion, my services were already disabled, tried the regedit .. Argghhhh!!!! I have windows xp sp2 with symantec antivirus and firewall and this problem started from day one.. my volume and network icons dont appear unless i get into the control panel and change the sound settings on every reboot. :( simple solution - start run --> type systray.exe and all icons come up.. sad that there is no fix.. but this is the easiest way to get the icons back i guess.. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Saturday, September 30, 2006 at 9:37 am Posted by Roger (2 messages posted) I use TweakUI for a number of things on my XP platform. I have found that the problem of missing system tray icons is a direct result of setting TweakUI to automatically log me in rather than having to click on my account in the middle of a Windows startup. The only icon that seems to make it through is Norton Antivirus. My volume control is gone as well as many other icons that I frequently use. As soon as I uncheck "Logon automatically at system startup", the problem disappears. I hope somebody out there has a fix for this. On Wednesday, February 15, 2006 at 4:14 am, Ryne Colt Radigan wrote: >Well I feel dumb my system tray wasn't showing becuase I told my computer not to >show it. I was messing around in TweakUI and checked the wrong box. It was a post >previouse to this that got me thinking about TweakUI as the culprit. Thanks for >the help everyone. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, October 2, 2006 at 8:24 pm Posted by Ed (1 messages posted) Thank you Rick for suggesting that Universal Plug & Play was the problem. I also had the problem of system tray icons disappearing to the "Past Items" section. I stumbled across your post and it had the answer for me. However, the easier way to fix this problem is to uninstall UPnP (the root of the problem) rather than disabling those services, which are part of it. It can be uninstalled by going to Network Places and there should be a link saying 'Hide icons for networked UPnP devices'. If Micorsoft does know about the problem, the tech support person I spoke to on the phone had no idea! Moral of the story: DONT install UPnP. Thanks again Rick for identifying the problem and putting me on the right track. Cheers On Friday, February 7, 2003 at 11:01 am, Rick wrote: >Microsoft knows about this problem and they have told several of us to go to [control >panel] [add / remove programs] [add/remove windows components] and take out the networking >services (which BTW includes Plug and Play) > >This worked but I was concerned that since I have a home network that I need these >services.. After reading all the posts here, I think the culprit is Plug and Play >and not the networking service.. > >To answer tje copncern about turning Plug and Play back on when installing new components, >The new hardware that you buy today is plug and play aware anyhow and doesn't need >windows to help so I wouldn't worry about adding new hardware with Windows Plug and >Play disabled.. It should find and install the compnent without any software help.. >Besides, 90% of the time you need to use the manufacturers software to install the >hardware anyhow.. > > >Rick > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Similar issue . . . icons missing from system tray Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 4:31 pm Posted by Wayne Knazek (1 messages posted) This is baffelling and MADDENING! UGGHHH ! ! ! OK, I feel better now. Phewwwwww! Here's the skinny . . . Never had this issue before. Using XP Pro for about 3 yrs. And I'm pretty 'puter savvy. Yesterday I booted up. No speaker icon in systray. For me, that's a problem as I produce music on my PC and need to switch back and forth from mic to WYHIWYG for recording internally thru midi devices. Went to Cntl Pannel. Audio, yadda yadda. Clicked on "show icon" button. Got the following error message . . . Windows cannot display the volume control on the taskbar because the Volume Control program has not been installed. To install it, use Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel. Huh? I went there and don't see any such program. So I openned Programs/Accessories/Entertainment so I could click the Volume Control link there. I NEED to get into my audio control pannel! NO WAY! Now there's no Volume Control listed in Entertainment! I've done all the obvious. Rebooted. Logged out and back in. No go! Also, my puter is as clean as can be. Perfectly maintained. Swept clean with pro gear routinely. Defragged often. Last night I went thru the whole process again just to be sure. Clean as a whistle! The only resolution I can think of would be reinstalling XP Pro. But I don't know if that'll work. Plus I just moved, and all my disks are packed away in a storage locker. UGGHHHH! I have a demo that needs to get done pronto. And I'm up a stinky creek with no paddle! [Reply or follow-up to this message] Clear out prefetch\systray.exe Thursday, November 2, 2006 at 1:01 pm Posted by Dave (1 messages posted) In trying to fix the same disappearing system tray problem on my XP machine, I searched for systray.exe under C:\windows, and found the original systray.exe plus 3 more under C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch I manually deleted the 3 copies of systray.exe in C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch and rebooted... then my system stray showed up! I hope that works for somebody else as well. Good luck, Dave On Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 4:31 pm, Wayne Knazek wrote: >This is baffelling and MADDENING! UGGHHH ! ! ! > >OK, I feel better now. Phewwwwww! > >Here's the skinny . . . Never had this issue before. Using XP Pro for about 3 yrs. > And I'm pretty 'puter savvy. > >Yesterday I booted up. No speaker icon in systray. For me, that's a problem as >I produce music on my PC and need to switch back and forth from mic to WYHIWYG for >recording internally thru midi devices. > >Went to Cntl Pannel. Audio, yadda yadda. Clicked on "show icon" button. Got the >following error message . . . > >Windows cannot display the volume control on the taskbar because the Volume Control >program has not been installed. To install it, use Add/Remove Programs in Control >Panel. > >Huh? > >I went there and don't see any such program. > >So I openned Programs/Accessories/Entertainment so I could click the Volume Control >link there. I NEED to get into my audio control pannel! > >NO WAY! Now there's no Volume Control listed in Entertainment! > >I've done all the obvious. Rebooted. Logged out and back in. No go! > >Also, my puter is as clean as can be. Perfectly maintained. Swept clean with pro >gear routinely. Defragged often. Last night I went thru the whole process again >just to be sure. > >Clean as a whistle! > >The only resolution I can think of would be reinstalling XP Pro. But I don't know >if that'll work. Plus I just moved, and all my disks are packed away in a storage >locker. UGGHHHH! > >I have a demo that needs to get done pronto. And I'm up a stinky creek with no paddle! [Reply or follow-up to this message] .... Tuesday, November 14, 2006 at 9:11 pm Posted by mike (1 messages posted) Here is a Fix if your registry value that lauches the system tray icon is missing.. If you notice when you open up "run" and type in "msconfig".. And go to startup ... There it will tell you where all of your registry's are that start up your system tray icons... Ok. Now.. Here's what I found for Norton Antivirus Corporate edition or the other ones... NORTON EXAMPLE -"The registry value that launches the icon is missing" The shield icon is launched by an application called Vptray.exe, which is launched from the Run key in the registry. If the value in the Run key is missing, the shield will not appear. In this case, the Load Symantec AntiVirus Services option may appear disabled within Symantec AntiVirus. To add the registry value to the Run key Exit all open programs. Click Start, and then click Run. The Run dialog box appears. Type regedit and then click OK. The Registry Editor appears. Navigate to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Click Edit, click New, and then click String Value. Name the value "Vptray" and press Enter. Double-click Vptray. Type the path to Vptray.exe, enclosing it in quotation marks, and press Enter. Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP: "C:\Program Files\Symantec_Client_Security\Symantec AntiVirus\Vptray.exe" or "C:\Program Files\Navnt\Vptray.exe" Close the Registry Editor. Restart the computer. You can also use that method for other system tray icons that are missing... Just change the name of the "value" (f.e: Click Edit, click New, and then click String Value. Name the value "CTsysvol" and press Enter. Double click on "CTsysvol" and enter the path name.) This worked for me and I hope it works for you...Because I know this bug is a pain in the ass. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Similar issue . . . icons missing from system tray Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 10:43 pm Posted by Gabriel Lozano-Morán (1 messages posted) I blogged about this a while ago and hopefully this would help you: http://pointerx.net/blogs/glozano/archive/2006/03/26/105.aspx About the missing icons in the taskbar notification area, I had the same problem months ago then I set the startup type to Automatic for the services "SSPD Discovery Service" and the "Universal Plug & Play Device Host". This solved my problem at the time. Since this week unfortunately I am again confronted with missing icons and the only thing I changed was install the Royale Noire Windows XP Theme and use a desktop background. If I am able to find a solution I will post it here. On Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 4:31 pm, Wayne Knazek wrote: >This is baffelling and MADDENING! UGGHHH ! ! ! > >OK, I feel better now. Phewwwwww! > >Here's the skinny . . . Never had this issue before. Using XP Pro for about 3 yrs. > And I'm pretty 'puter savvy. > >Yesterday I booted up. No speaker icon in systray. For me, that's a problem as >I produce music on my PC and need to switch back and forth from mic to WYHIWYG for >recording internally thru midi devices. > >Went to Cntl Pannel. Audio, yadda yadda. Clicked on "show icon" button. Got the >following error message . . . > >Windows cannot display the volume control on the taskbar because the Volume Control >program has not been installed. To install it, use Add/Remove Programs in Control >Panel. > >Huh? > >I went there and don't see any such program. > >So I openned Programs/Accessories/Entertainment so I could click the Volume Control >link there. I NEED to get into my audio control pannel! > >NO WAY! Now there's no Volume Control listed in Entertainment! > >I've done all the obvious. Rebooted. Logged out and back in. No go! > >Also, my puter is as clean as can be. Perfectly maintained. Swept clean with pro >gear routinely. Defragged often. Last night I went thru the whole process again >just to be sure. > >Clean as a whistle! > >The only resolution I can think of would be reinstalling XP Pro. But I don't know >if that'll work. Plus I just moved, and all my disks are packed away in a storage >locker. UGGHHHH! > >I have a demo that needs to get done pronto. And I'm up a stinky creek with no paddle! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Clear out prefetch\systray.exe Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 7:56 am Posted by Len Philpot (1 messages posted) On Thursday, November 2, 2006 at 1:01 pm, Dave wrote: >In trying to fix the same disappearing system tray problem on my XP machine, I searched >for systray.exe under C:\windows, and found the original systray.exe plus 3 more >under C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch > >I manually deleted the 3 copies of systray.exe in C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch and rebooted... >then my system stray showed up! My system tray does not show up for my account, but it does for the Administrator account. This is appears to be a profile issue (not a systray.exe issue itself). I removed the single copy of systray I found in prefetch, but to no avail. It still won't show up for my account. Anyone have any other ideas? I hate to have to blow away my entire profile just for this one issue which showed up, by the way, after automatic updates ran (unknown to me) by themselves last night... grrr. Thanks. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, January 11, 2007 at 3:38 am Posted by gorf (1 messages posted) works for me thanks On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 1:06 am, Peter wrote: >I've been having the same problem myself, interestingly if you LOG OFF and back on, >instead of restarting, etc.., everything loads properly. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, January 11, 2007 at 1:49 pm Posted by Wayne Knazek (1 messages posted) Here's a solution that worked for me. . . . (See my post on the "related" issue . . . Load your Windows disc . . . Click on START . . . Select RUN . . . . type in SFC/scannow Your computer will scan your entire system looking for any files found on the Windows disc that aren't on your computer. It'll take maybe 30 minutes or so to scan. And you'll get a prompt to OK any files it finds. I did that, rebooterd, and I was good to go. Haven't had a problem since. :) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Please let the old critter die of old age! Thursday, February 1, 2007 at 4:44 pm Posted by Stadia (1 messages posted) I would love to but don't know how :-) May have something new - my sound icon disappeared and my XP sounds topped playing recently. Disabling the two UPnP items fixed this but subsequently I investigated the cause. Turns out that it only happens when a DOS/Win 3.11 system I have recently put together for old games is on my network. My guess is that UPnP is trying to work out WTF it is :-) On Saturday, March 25, 2006 at 12:34 am, Kiwi wrote: >This thread is four years old, long, slow to load already, etc. If there is actually >any possible reason to supply an additional iota of verbiage to this decrepit old >beast, do it in a new thread of your own, and include a LINK to one single message >out of the mess that needs further elaboration, OK? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Please let the old critter die of old age! Friday, February 2, 2007 at 10:37 am Posted by G Busho (1 messages posted) Try this - click on Start - Control Panel - Sounds Speech and Audio Devices - Sounds and Audio Devices - Sounds (tab). Make sure that there is a sound scheme displayed in the drop down window (Windows Default or some other scheme that you may created). When I was trying to fix my missing sound icon on the taskbar, the sound scheme was blank. As soon as I did the drop down menu and selected "Windows Default," and clicked OK, the icon reappeared on the taskbar. Hope this helps. On Thursday, February 1, 2007 at 4:44 pm, Stadia wrote: >I would love to but don't know how :-) >May have something new - my sound icon disappeared and my XP sounds topped playing >recently. Disabling the two UPnP items fixed this but subsequently I investigated >the cause. Turns out that it only happens when a DOS/Win 3.11 system I have recently >put together for old games is on my network. My guess is that UPnP is trying to work >out WTF it is :-) > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, February 16, 2007 at 3:39 pm Posted by danny (1 messages posted) NICE JOB PAULC! That worked for me first try and first google search...thanks for the information! On Wednesday, February 5, 2003 at 5:33 am, PaulC wrote: >OK, try this... > >- ctl+alt+del to get up task manager >- click on "Processes" tab >- highlight the "explorer" process >- click "End Process"... this will stop your desktop. >- click on "Applications" tab >- click "New Task..." >- Type "explorer" and click OK > >This will restart the explorer which manages the desktop. With me my icons returned! >Could be something to do with the startup of explorer perhaps... just a thought. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 6:33 am Posted by Erin (2 messages posted) Okay, just incase anyone's still reading this forum... Raptor, I too noticed that when I go into customizing hidden icons, probably almost 30 things are listed, their icons are messed up, and half of them are for programs that I uninstalled long ago. Ugh. I've been dealing with this problem for ages, mostly just putting up with it... finally got fed up and chatted with Gateway help, who told me the only solution was to wipe the hard drive and start over, which I found APPALLING and said so, that there must be something else to do, and they said no and then tried to kick me off the chat as quickly as possible, which I found even more appalling. So much for their "friendly tech support..." riiight. So faced with starting over from scratch I started an internet search of my own and found this site. Having just found it, I haven't tried any of the fixes yet (except the band-aid of logging off and logging back on, which worked but of course isn't permanent). But I notice Raptor's the only one to mention the messed up icons, which to me says this is a registry problem just as much as a timing problem. The system tray stuff won't load unless you give it ample time, that seems to be a determining factor for many people; but why does it need so much time? In my case, it seems that it needs time because it's busy trying to find like 28 programs that AREN'T THERE. And for some people, maybe it just gives up. So my first plan is to check out the registry and see if I can clean stuff up... I definitely don't need 3 icons for AOL messenger trying to start when it isn't even on my computer anymore... and I don't want a band-aid, I want this SOLVED. I'll update if it works... wish me luck! On Wednesday, December 1, 2004 at 12:38 am, Raptor wrote: >I'm exactly in the same situation here. After installing McAfee Virusscan Enterprise >8.0, I noticed that most of my system tray icons were gone after rebooting. So I >started googling and came across this thread. >For me, the trick with disabling UPnP and SSDP doesn't work. The services were not >even running in the first place. >What I did notice however, is that when I go to the taskbar configuration where you >can set whether the icons should be hidden or not, the history of the icons shows >all icons wrong! Most of them have the image of a folder instead of their normal >icon. Others do have a normal icon but the wrong one (e.g. Mozilla shows the icon >of the iTouch logitech app). >Maybe this is related, maybe not. BTW, I already had a similar problem with wrong >icons being displayed in the installed applications list when you go to Add/Remove >Programs, and that on multiple PCs. Also never found what was the cause (not that >I did a thorough investigation). > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 11:36 am Posted by Erin (2 messages posted) Okay... so I tried a whole mess of stuff. First, under my belief that the registry had problems, I downloaded (even paid for) the program Registry Booster. It did find over 300 problems in my registry... and fixed them... wow. But- didn't fix the system tray thing. Dang! (I'm still glad I bought it because overall my computer's running faster now, but that's not so much the point of this thread.) Then started going down the list of recommendations on this site. The following didn't get the system tray to work correctly again, but it DID clear out all the weird icons and old crap that was coming up under system tray customization. Thanks to whoever posted this: Once even I had the same problem and i solved it by deleting a regitry key about >systray icons. This problem occurs mostly because a registry key gets corrupted. > >Navigate to the following key >HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify. > >In the right pane delete the regbinary keys named 'iconstreams' and 'pasticonstream'. > >Close the regedit. >press Ctrl+Alt+Del. >In the processes find explorer.exe and click end it. This will make your desktop >disappear. >In the task manager, go to File->New task and type explorer.exe and press enter. > This will restart your explorer and the desktop will appear. > >Now restart your comp immediately (this is important) without doing anything else. >This process recreates the above deleted registry keys and all your icons are back. > > >Hope this helps. ;) Again, made things cleaner, but didn't fix the problem. Tried everything else on here and everything that I knew how to involving the registry, none of it created any noticeable changes. (And yes I backed up first.) Finally it came down to three things: having to login to my account at startup, paying for software to delay programs opening at startup, or the ol' SSDP and/or uPnP trick. I hid the uPnP icons and set the SSDP to automatic (see how here: http://www.tech-pro.net/howto_013.html). Low and behold, the simplest tasks seem to be the best. Now, I'm glad I did the rest of the stuff- my computer seemed to sigh with relief to have some extra crud gone- but so far it seems to be the SSDP and uPnP that work. We'll see how it continues. And incidentally, I have a Gateway laptop that's about 8 months old (and Gateway totally lies about their "friendly" customer service), with Windows XP SP2 and Norton Anti-Virus. By the way... anyone know if Windows Vista has this problem? Or does it even HAVE a system tray? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, February 23, 2007 at 12:53 am 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. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Saturday, March 10, 2007 at 8:26 am Posted by Tom (1 messages posted) Change the settings in your Network Connections to not to show UPnP devices... On Friday, February 23, 2007 at 12:53 am, Andrew wrote: >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! :) > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Tuesday, March 27, 2007 at 3:37 pm Posted by Sheryl (1 messages posted) This worked like a charm! I did get a message whcn I chose to end the process, that it might make my system unstable, but I tried it anyway, there up popped my missing icon! On Wednesday, February 5, 2003 at 5:33 am, PaulC wrote: >OK, try this... > >- ctl+alt+del to get up task manager >- click on "Processes" tab >- highlight the "explorer" process >- click "End Process"... this will stop your desktop. >- click on "Applications" tab >- click "New Task..." >- Type "explorer" and click OK > >This will restart the explorer which manages the desktop. With me my icons returned! >Could be something to do with the startup of explorer perhaps... just a thought. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, March 29, 2007 at 6:20 am Posted by Stephen Wright (1 messages posted) The suggestion to log off and on again worked for me. Also, uninstalling antivirus worked, I have used Avast, AVG and PCTools with XP service pack 2 and its the antivirus that causes the problem, for me, but I don't want to go without an antivirus, so I'm glad I have the log alternative. On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, May 18, 2007 at 3:15 pm Posted by David Wilson (1 messages posted) Wow Thanks Sean that worked for me. I bookmarked this page just in case I ever have this problem again. But considering I checked it. By restarting my computer 5 times already. I think I'm all set. On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 3:05 am, Sean Burns wrote: > >I've found an easier cure. It worked for me so you could try it:- >Right-click on My Computer >Click on Manage >Expand 'Services & Applications' >Highlight 'Services' >Look through list of services on the right.... >Find Universal Plug & Play Device Host >Right-click on it. >Click properties. >Change startup type to 'Disabled' >Do exactly the same with 'SSDP discovery service' >Problem should be solved. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Sunday, July 8, 2007 at 1:07 pm Posted by Neal (1 messages posted) OK, I was having this same problem after installing some drivers for my laptop. Before you go reinstalling XP, etc. Try this: 1. Download Tweak Ui from Microsoft (google it) 2. Install the program and Run It 3. Inside Tweak Ui, navigate to section "Taskbar and Start Menu" in the tree on the left. 4. There are 4 check boxes. Make sure the "Show Taskbar notifications" option is CHECKED. (if it appears checked, uncheck it, hit apply, then check it and hit apply again - brute force) 5. Log off and log back on. (or restart) This solved my problem and, unless you just have all icons hidden, it will hopefully solve yours as well. I hope this helps someone! On Friday, May 18, 2007 at 3:15 pm, David Wilson wrote: >Wow Thanks Sean that worked for me. >I bookmarked this page just in case I ever have this problem again. >But considering I checked it. >By restarting my computer 5 times already. >I think I'm all set. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 3:30 pm Posted by kenenglund (1 messages posted) I successfully restored ALL 10 of my system tray icons by simply unchecking UPnP in Networks Services (Add/Remove Windows Components.) On Sunday, July 8, 2007 at 1:07 pm, Neal wrote: >OK, I was having this same problem after installing some drivers for my laptop. > >Before you go reinstalling XP, etc. Try this: > >1. Download Tweak Ui from Microsoft (google it) >2. Install the program and Run It >3. Inside Tweak Ui, navigate to section "Taskbar and Start Menu" in the tree on the >left. > >4. There are 4 check boxes. Make sure the "Show Taskbar notifications" option is >CHECKED. (if it appears checked, uncheck it, hit apply, then check it and hit apply >again - brute force) > >5. Log off and log back on. (or restart) > >This solved my problem and, unless you just have all icons hidden, it will hopefully >solve yours as well. > >I hope this helps someone! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, September 6, 2007 at 1:23 am Posted by Ron Knee (1 messages posted) >This worked for me too! > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, September 7, 2007 at 8:27 pm Posted by Sridhar (3 messages posted) Thanks! That solved it in my case. On Sunday, July 8, 2007 at 1:07 pm, Neal wrote: >OK, I was having this same problem after installing some drivers for my laptop. > >Before you go reinstalling XP, etc. Try this: > >1. Download Tweak Ui from Microsoft (google it) >2. Install the program and Run It >3. Inside Tweak Ui, navigate to section "Taskbar and Start Menu" in the tree on the >left. > >4. There are 4 check boxes. Make sure the "Show Taskbar notifications" option is >CHECKED. (if it appears checked, uncheck it, hit apply, then check it and hit apply >again - brute force) > >5. Log off and log back on. (or restart) > >This solved my problem and, unless you just have all icons hidden, it will hopefully >solve yours as well. > >I hope this helps someone! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 6:37 am Posted by Dan (1 messages posted) I was recently having this problem and went searching...I tried your suggestion and it worked...Thanks! On Wednesday, February 5, 2003 at 5:33 am, PaulC wrote: >OK, try this... > >- ctl+alt+del to get up task manager >- click on "Processes" tab >- highlight the "explorer" process >- click "End Process"... this will stop your desktop. >- click on "Applications" tab >- click "New Task..." >- Type "explorer" and click OK > >This will restart the explorer which manages the desktop. With me my icons returned! >Could be something to do with the startup of explorer perhaps... just a thought. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, October 1, 2007 at 6:30 am Posted by Nick (1 messages posted) Just to add a further thought to this - I suffered from this problem. Rather than disabling UPNP, I simply went to "My Netywork Places" and clicked "Hide icons for networked UPNP devices". I rebooted and all of my system tray icons reappeared. On Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 6:37 am, Dan wrote: >I was recently having this problem and went searching...I tried your suggestion and >it worked...Thanks! > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, October 11, 2007 at 10:17 am Posted by mouxlas21 (1 messages posted) i did the logOff-logOn and it worked ...my guess is that the icons disappear because windows are loading too fast ...i have recently changed the way i am logging in to the computer and thats where the problem started. Before i had to click on my usericon and if necessary to type in the password to log into windows. Now it does it automatically. Is there any way of avoiding the logging-off procedure? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at 8:31 am Posted by Duke Duyck (1 messages posted) I used to have this problem until I found out that programs take longer to load than the WIN XP login screen. Now I watch my HD light until it stops blinking for at least 20 seconds, before I login. Ever since I do that I have had no errors starting programs or seeing icons. I can recommend other speedy trigger fingers to slow down too at the login :) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Sunday, November 25, 2007 at 12:54 pm Posted by dglad (1 messages posted) Hi Nick I tried your suggestion and it worked. Thank you. dglad [Reply or follow-up to this message] new solution - not listed above Sunday, February 24, 2008 at 9:06 pm Posted by Brian Ulrich (1 messages posted) Before posting my solution, I will explain my problem in detail since it seems to me that some folks posting here may have been experiencing slightly different issues. My problem seems to be consistent with that of the original poster. My problem: After each reboot and FIRST login(I am using a username/password), only a few of the taskbar icons load in a timely manner(from 2-3 whole minutes). The first few icons load quickly. Also during this period, a peak at the process list in task manager reveals that 1) no process is using any CPU time and 2) all processes except "system idle" don't yet have username populated. As noted earlier in the forum, the icons can be forced to load by killing and restarting explorer.exe AND the problem does not come back with more user LOGINS to Windows, only the first after a restart. More notes: - problem occurs after a clean OS install(XP Pro w SP2) - only hardware drivers are loaded - no antivirus software or other software loaded yet - problem only occurs once at startup. Solutions attempted: - I attempted ALL of the solutions listed below(all are from earlier in this forum posting) with no luck. Note that I consider some of the posts to be "workarounds" rather than solutions since they have to be done every time and don't prevent the problem. 1) reinstalling LATEST drivers for ALL hardware 2) disabling UPnP and SSDP services 3) adding systray.exe to the ..\Run registry entry 4) adding registry entry [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoTrayItemsDisplay"=dword:00000000 5) Hide icons for networked UPnP devices 6) remove setupapi.dll from system folder 7) using regcleaner to remove startup items The SOLUTION that worked for ME: - Disabling the service that was created by the NVidia graphics driver. (NVidia Display Driver Service) - I used MSCONFIG and went to "Service" tab and chose "hide all microsoft services" to see just what had been added after the OS install. (I had just reinstalled my OS, so my list was only one item long and the culprit was easy to find. I downloaded the latest driver available from my manufacturer and NVidia and some other sites, but the problem remained. This service was the culprit and must have been loading after the taskbar icons that loaded OK, but before the rest. By the way disabling the service seems to have not prevented anything from working properly. Hopefully this will help someone else who's been struggling with this same issue and tried everything else. P.S. I'm running XP Tablet PC edition on an Acer TravelMate C310 with an NVidia GeForce Go 6200. And I did try a clean install of XP Pro and had the same problem as I did with XP Tablet edition. On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: new solution - not listed above Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 1:13 pm Posted by Jacob Fuhrman (40 messages posted) This is how I fixed my problem. I have SpyBot on my computer. After it's new version came out, it included some sort of resident that ran all the time preventing "viruses and spyware from installing itself" or something like that. It worked great, however, it stopped MY programs from starting up. I'm guessing if you have some antiviral or antispyware programs, especially if they are the only ones starting up, then go ahead and fix the problem there. I did that with SpyBot, and all my programs started up just like it did before. I even have my volume control! On Sunday, February 24, 2008 at 9:06 pm, Brian Ulrich wrote: >Before posting my solution, I will explain my problem in detail since it seems to >me that some folks posting here may have been experiencing slightly different issues. > My problem seems to be consistent with that of the original poster. > > >My problem: After each reboot and FIRST login(I am using a username/password), only >a few of the taskbar icons load in a timely manner(from 2-3 whole minutes). The >first few icons load quickly. Also during this period, a peak at the process list >in task manager reveals that 1) no process is using any CPU time and 2) all processes >except "system idle" don't yet have username populated. As noted earlier in the >forum, the icons can be forced to load by killing and restarting explorer.exe AND >the problem does not come back with more user LOGINS to Windows, only the first after >a restart. > > >More notes: >- problem occurs after a clean OS install(XP Pro w SP2) >- only hardware drivers are loaded >- no antivirus software or other software loaded yet >- problem only occurs once at startup. > > >Solutions attempted: >- I attempted ALL of the solutions listed below(all are from earlier in this forum >posting) with no luck. Note that I consider some of the posts to be "workarounds" >rather than solutions since they have to be done every time and don't prevent the >problem. > >1) reinstalling LATEST drivers for ALL hardware >2) disabling UPnP and SSDP services >3) adding systray.exe to the ..\Run registry entry >4) adding registry entry >[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] >"NoTrayItemsDisplay"=dword:00000000 >5) Hide icons for networked UPnP devices >6) remove setupapi.dll from system folder >7) using regcleaner to remove startup items > > >The SOLUTION that worked for ME: >- Disabling the service that was created by the NVidia graphics driver. (NVidia Display >Driver Service) >- I used MSCONFIG and went to "Service" tab and chose "hide all microsoft services" >to see just what had been added after the OS install. (I had just reinstalled my >OS, so my list was only one item long and the culprit was easy to find. > > >I downloaded the latest driver available from my manufacturer and NVidia and some >other sites, but the problem remained. This service was the culprit and must have >been loading after the taskbar icons that loaded OK, but before the rest. By the >way disabling the service seems to have not prevented anything from working properly. > > >Hopefully this will help someone else who's been struggling with this same issue >and tried everything else. > > >P.S. I'm running XP Tablet PC edition on an Acer TravelMate C310 with an NVidia >GeForce Go 6200. And I did try a clean install of XP Pro and had the same problem >as I did with XP Tablet edition. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: new solution - not listed above Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 8:23 am Posted by Wayne (13 messages posted) I too upgraded SpyBot and thought that was the problem, however, it turns out that for me, it was UPnP Networking. Once I uninstalled UPnP, my task tray works perfectly, even with SpyBot 1.5x On Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 1:13 pm, Jacob Fuhrman wrote: >This is how I fixed my problem. I have SpyBot on my computer. After it's new version >came out, it included some sort of resident that ran all the time preventing "viruses >and spyware from installing itself" or something like that. It worked great, however, >it stopped MY programs from starting up. I'm guessing if you have some antiviral >or antispyware programs, especially if they are the only ones starting up, then go >ahead and fix the problem there. I did that with SpyBot, and all my programs started >up just like it did before. I even have my volume control! > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Here's why and how to solve it Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 10:36 pm Posted by Spexx (1955 messages posted) This problem is one I see everywhere. What is happening is that when explorer starts, there are still system services in the process of starting, along with all the applications that are set to start at login time. These processes are all competing for processor time in an asynchronous melee of activity and are almost falling over each other in what is called a "race condition". What is required as a definitive fix is a method for delaying the startup of your applications while the system services are starting, then only allowing the applications to start synchronously i.e. one after another with a time lag in between. Once properly set up, the system tray icons will always appear in the same right-to-left order on the display. The software you need to set this up is Startup Delayer from r2 studios. With this, you can set each application to start after a time interval you specify. It rather depends on how fast/slow your PC is, but it seems to be good to delay the start of the first application by at least 30 seconds on any machine. What the software does is remove the application startup entries from the registry and keep them in it's own database, replacing all the startup entries in the registry with just a single one for itself. It then releases each application to start after the specified delay. Simple but effective. Some applications have a habit of replacing their registry startup entry if it is deleted, but Startup Delayer can notice that condition and advise accordingly. Problem solved after how many years? Cheers. Spexx. You are not paranoid. They really do have it in for you. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, June 26, 2008 at 2:01 am Posted by LorgenShadoufang (1 messages posted) Suhweeet! It worked! Sean Burns is a geeniuhs! I've put up with this problem through dozens of WinXP Pro installs (it happens when I have installed too many programs... and I install dozens of programs on my system)! Thank you Sir. Thank you very much. And to all the other people who've posted to help here: I haven't tested your fixes/tweaks, but thank you very much too. You guys make a lot of lives happier ='D Wanna see my systray directly after startup? http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/9691/shadoufangtaskbarsystrang8.png hehehehe :'p On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 3:05 am, Sean Burns wrote: > >I've found an easier cure. It worked for me so you could try it:- >Right-click on My Computer >Click on Manage >Expand 'Services & Applications' >Highlight 'Services' >Look through list of services on the right.... >Find Universal Plug & Play Device Host >Right-click on it. >Click properties. >Change startup type to 'Disabled' >Do exactly the same with 'SSDP discovery service' >Problem should be solved. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: new solution to icons - not listed above Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 4:55 pm Posted by xzy (1 messages posted) it may not work for all, but i found if i set my symantec anti-virus file system auto-protect to system start instead of the program start, everything booted as normal. hope it works for you guys [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 12:03 pm Posted by icefish27 (1 messages posted) After 6 months of searching for a difficult solution to a wicked simple problem, I've finally found my missing icon (and I feel like an idiot for not finding it sooner). For what it's worth, I'll post my solution here in case it helps anyone else: My missing icon was the Dell Wireless WLAN Utility icon. Apparently, in a drunken stuper, I had unchecked the box next to "WLTRAY" in the startup tab in the system configuration utility (i.e. msconfig). I continue to have the problem with the incorrect icons in the past items section of the Customize Notifications window, but I'm going to try to let that go...maybe. On another note, imagine all the company-paid time and resources this post has enveloped over the years. Thank God for down-time and fringe benefits. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, August 8, 2008 at 1:51 am Posted by tverberg (1 messages posted) I've had the problem of icons not appearing in my system tray for quite awhile. Rebooting typically solved the problem. Last week, though, my video card died. It was a geforce 5200 with 128 meg of memory which came with my Dell 8300. I replaced it with a geforce 7600GT with 512 meg of memory. I have not had the problem of icons not appearing in my system tray since then. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 9:59 am Posted by M. Ihab Abou-Halima (1 messages posted) this worked with me: Go to "My Netywork Places" and clicke "Hide icons for networked UPNP devices". I rebooted and all of my system tray icons reappeared. On Friday, August 8, 2008 at 1:51 am, tverberg wrote: >I've had the problem of icons not appearing in my system tray for quite awhile. >Rebooting typically solved the problem. Last week, though, my video card died. >It was a geforce 5200 with 128 meg of memory which came with my Dell 8300. I replaced >it with a geforce 7600GT with 512 meg of memory. I have not had the problem of icons >not appearing in my system tray since then. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 2:11 pm Posted by Bill Payer (1 messages posted) Thanks!! that works 4 me [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, September 26, 2008 at 10:01 pm Posted by Shaum (1 messages posted) **************************************** The message I am responding to WORKS....just follow the directions. I was stoked about this....the one thing I would add...is the "new task" isn't right in front of you....you have to click to find. Again.... THIS WORKS! Thanks! ***************************************** On Wednesday, February 5, 2003 at 5:33 am, PaulC wrote: >OK, try this... > >- ctl+alt+del to get up task manager >- click on "Processes" tab >- highlight the "explorer" process >- click "End Process"... this will stop your desktop. >- click on "Applications" tab >- click "New Task..." >- Type "explorer" and click OK > >This will restart the explorer which manages the desktop. With me my icons returned! >Could be something to do with the startup of explorer perhaps... just a thought. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Hopefully a solution! Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 11:58 am Posted by Shondra (1 messages posted) Hi!! I'm using Windows XP Home Edition SP3. I just wanna let everyone know that I was having the same problem about my volume icon going in and out or being inactive until just now cause I rebooted my computer 6 times in all just to make sure it's fixed for good lol. Anyway, here's what I think helped fix my issue. It seems to have fixed it so far anyway. I tried Kelly's fix from Kelly's Corner. I'm still not sure if that fixed it or not. I made sure it was checked in the control panel to place the volume control in the system tray was checked and for me I thought it may have something to do with me hiding my inactive icons but it didn't. Then I believe it could've been one or 2 things or both that solved my issue. I created a systray.exe new key in the registry and did what it said to do about creating it in the registry from this post right here and I waited till I tried everything that sounded like it could relate to my issue and I just a little bit ago restarted my computer 5 times to make sure that it's fixed for good and the 6th time to make sure that it still looked that way and it sure did!! I did it a 6th time to just make sure that it stayed like that cause I created a shortcut from my C:\Windows\System32 folder from sndvol32 and created a shortcut to my desktop and I read another thread or maybe here too about WindowsAudio to see if it was on disabled or manual and what may or may not have helped me is by switching my WindowsAudio in Services in the control panel from disabled or manual to Automatic. I believe that's all I did outside of trying other threads that people posted that didn't help me much if any. They may or may not have but I know doing that in the registry and on WindowsAudio did. It was probably most likely the one on the registry I guess cause I don't think I had a New Data Key where I needed to cause I didn't see one in the right window pane in the registry unless I just didn't see it but I think it's cause I didn't have a new data key entry for systray.exe. cause it let me create a new one. Cause if there was one already it probably wouldn't have let me create another one. Unless something installed over my Systray.exe. file when I installed something else and whatever it was I installed overwrote my Systray.exe. file, I guess. I don't know. I'm not sure but I've got it fixed now tho, I hope for good. So now I can delete my extra copy of the volume icon on my desktop which I'm proud to say that I've already done that. This issue has been bugging me for a little while now. It's annoying and it's not fun when you can't just go straight to your volume icon when you can't hear something or when you're listening to somethng and you either can't hear/stand the music when it starts out too loud and it's about to bust your ear drums lol. I'm glad I can say I've got mine fixed for a while and I hope for good now. :) I just wanted to let people know what I've done so that maybe I can help people with their situations. Maybe just maybe it will help ya'll too!! :) P.S. One other thing that I remember that I done too was Hide Icons for Networked Upnp devices and that's one of the last things that I did too. I'm not sure if it helped any or not tho to be quite honest. P.S.S. Other people may not want to do this one. I did it cause I didn't really want WDS anymore but ya'll don't have to do this one if ya'll don't want to. And the one thing that I did first was uninstall Windows Desktop Search 4.0 and I'm glad that I did cause I don't know if it had anything to do with my icons disappearing in my system tray or not but I know it was probably hiding them too. I think it was. I didn't use WDS any since I've installed it anyway. I'm not sure about it taking up about 5 MB or not but it looked like it was taking up alot of room from what I saw on my computer and in the Add/Remove in the control panel when I saw how many megabytes or whatever from when I installed it from Windows Update Site or uninstalled it one. I forgot which one or both. That's all I've got to say now lol. I just wanna say thanks to Brent and everyone else who posts this same post in this and other forums and stuff cause if it hadn't been for you and others like you posting this same post and the word getting spread around it would be driving people like me even more insane if they didn't or couldn't fix their system trays and volume icons and other icons and other stuff lol. Thanks alot!! I appreciate it!! Now it's not driving me crazy anymore for right now since I have my volume icon in my system tray fixed now lol. On Thursday, November 11, 2004 at 6:23 pm, Brent wrote: >Hope this helps... > >Bottom line is that you want your system tray to run at startup....system tray includes >the windows sound icon, network connections, power monitor etc. > >PLEASE CREATE RESTORE POINT NOW!!!! >If you mess up at any point just restore to this restore point and start again >NOTE: Don't type in the quotes when entering data below. > >None of this will affect third party applications running in your computer's system >tray as systray.exe and the others are independent. > >Run the window registry editor (START, RUN, regedit) > >You need to create a new String Value called "systray" in: > >HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run > >Then give in the value: "C:\WINDOWS\system32\systray.exe" > >To do all this: > >1. START, RUN, type "regedit", hit enter > >2. Once in the Registry Editor, navigate the left directory tree to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run > >3. Then right click on the right window pane, click new, then string value. > >4. Give the new string value the name "systray" > >5. Your new value should now have the name "systray", the type "REG_SZ", and no data. > >6. Right click on your new "systray" value and click "modify". > >7. Now give "systray" the value data: "C:\WINDOWS\system32\systray.exe" > >8. Click ok and close the Registry Editor. > >9. Restart your computer. > >You should now have your systray back at boot. > >Hope this helps. > >Email me if anybody gets stuck. > >Brent >brent.martel@gmail.com >CANADA > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 8:31 am Posted by Helper (2 messages posted) I have the same problem, "power meter" icon not shown on system tray despite check "always show icon on task bar". I offered an alternate solution that is similar to advice posted by Sean Burns dated on Feb 6, 2003. The culprit is the "UPnP". So I uninstall "UPnP User Interface", and the missing "power meter" icon in system tray problem resolved. To uninstall "UPnP User Interface", goto "Control Panel > Add / Remove Programme > Add/Remove Windows Components > Networking Services > uncheck UPnP User Interface" [Reply or follow-up to this message] Solution to icons missing from system tray Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 8:46 am Posted by Helper (2 messages posted) I have the same problem, "power meter" icon not shown on system tray despite check "always show icon on task bar". I offered an alternate solution that is similar to advice posted by Sean Burns dated on Feb 6, 2003. The culprit is the "UPnP". So I uninstall "UPnP User Interface", and the missing "power meter" icon in system tray problem resolved. To uninstall "UPnP User Interface", goto "Control Panel > Add / Remove Programme > Add/Remove Windows Components > Networking Services > uncheck UPnP User Interface" [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 11:54 pm Posted by Zodiaq (1 messages posted) Wow!! I have tried all of these possible solutions and nothing worked. I found something so simple and it actually worked!! ControlPanel>SoundsandAudioDevicesProperties under 'Device volume' check the box 'Place volume icon in the taskbar'. Hit apply/ok. Low and behold all my icons appeared in the system tray!!! Yeah!!! I hope it works for some of you. On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Friday, December 5, 2008 at 9:08 am Posted by werner (7087 messages posted) Well,so that's finally settled. Sure glad Annoyances,keeps Threads open that long. Not every site does that. LOL Werner List of Lists [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 9:09 pm Posted by Jay Paterson (1 messages posted) Several Notification icons missing after starting up? Pointer changes to an hour glass when you place it over the task bar? All Icons appear if you log out then log back in but don't appear if you restart? Your solution is at the Microsoft Knowledge base...follow this link... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841571/ [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 8:35 am Posted by Tony (1 messages posted) On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 1:06 am, Peter wrote: >I've been having the same problem myself, interestingly if you LOG OFF and back on, >instead of restarting, etc.., everything loads properly. Great success! Thank you [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at 9:24 pm Posted by Arvinder Singh (1 messages posted) i have a similar problem >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 11:06 pm Posted by Michele (1 messages posted) I've been with the same problem and thanks for your suggestion! My speaker icon is back. Thanks again, Michele On Wednesday, February 5, 2003 at 5:33 am, PaulC wrote: >OK, try this... > >- ctl+alt+del to get up task manager >- click on "Processes" tab >- highlight the "explorer" process >- click "End Process"... this will stop your desktop. >- click on "Applications" tab >- click "New Task..." >- Type "explorer" and click OK > >This will restart the explorer which manages the desktop. With me my icons returned! >Could be something to do with the startup of explorer perhaps... just a thought. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 8:51 am Posted by Billf (1 messages posted) I had the same problem after I removed a malfunctioning antivirus/spyware/etc. Dont' know if the two were related. Tried disabling the pnp to no avail and then installed the freebee 'RegCleaner' suggested by Peter. As it turned out, I too had two instances of desktop running. Removed one (this time not the '(common user)') and had little difference, BUT after I reinstated the pnp I had previously disabled and rebooting a couple of times, everything came back except occasionally the the USB eject doesn't show up when I have a USP drive installed at boot. Its definitely worth a try. On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 1:18 am, Peter wrote: >Well I finally fixed it on my computer, we'll see if it works for you all.. Get a >program called RegCleaner. start it up and go to the startup tab, for me it was >showing Desktop loading twice one of the instances was (common user) the other was >not named, I deleted the common user instance, after creating a restore point ;p > >After that when I restarted it not only finished booting quicker but all the icons >were loaded properly into the notification area. > > On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >>When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >>Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >>-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >>startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >>Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going >to >>Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >>Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >>What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation >CD, >>so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 2:24 pm Posted by Sam The Man (1 messages posted) SOLUTION SOLUTION SOLUTION!!!!!!! Worked for me http://hoooopla.webs.com/ [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 10:45 am Posted by exspextations (1 messages posted) I've just been hit by the same problem - I've tried all of the suggested solutions - except regcleaner: down loaded the program, it runs (can see it in the process list, but no screens open and nothing shows up in the system tray). I've also removed everything from my start-up except the essential MS progs and Mcafee, still no joy. Any other suggestions - the problem occurred after an update from McAfee, but they have no suggestions. On Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 2:24 pm, Sam The Man wrote: >SOLUTION SOLUTION SOLUTION!!!!!!! > > >Worked for me > >http://hoooopla.webs.com/ [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Sunday, April 19, 2009 at 3:42 pm Posted by Carol S. (1 messages posted) Sean, Your hint is still helping people! I found it today and it worked great! Thank you VERY MUCH! On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 3:05 am, Sean Burns wrote: > >I've found an easier cure. It worked for me so you could try it:- >Right-click on My Computer >Click on Manage >Expand 'Services & Applications' >Highlight 'Services' >Look through list of services on the right.... >Find Universal Plug & Play Device Host >Right-click on it. >Click properties. >Change startup type to 'Disabled' >Do exactly the same with 'SSDP discovery service' >Problem should be solved. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Monday, April 27, 2009 at 7:00 pm Posted by Molaker (1 messages posted) texfisk (way back in 2003) may have something there about XP booting so fast. I just updated my system with 80 pin flat cables to gain higher UDMA rates. I was stuck at UDMA 2 with the old cables. Now my HDD is running at UDMA 5 (ATA 100 vs ATA 33). As soon as I did this, I began to have the problem others have experienced here. I tried the RegCleaner fix, but my system has many apps in the Common User startup and deleting that from my startup did not have the desired effect for me. At this moment, I'm not inclined to change my flat cable back to see if the problem goes away - maybe someday when I've a lot of time on my hands. But, my experience just may provide someone with a bit more knowledge to help figure out how to properly solve this problem. On Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 9:21 am, texfisk wrote: >Just upgraded to XP and had the same problem. It seems that XP boots so fast that >the Icons may not get into the system tray even thought the programs are running. >I found a freeware program that allows you to delay the start of programs in then >statup folder. It seems to fix the problem. Here is the link http://www.r2.com.au/downloads/index.html?id=startdelay > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 9:53 pm Posted by Diane (2 messages posted) Under Services, I simply changed IMAPI CD BURNING COM SVC to "automatic". Both my power icon AND my volume icon reappeared. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 4:43 pm 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! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 12:57 pm Posted by LMM (1 messages posted) Interestingly enough, the log off and log back on worked ace for me! After I tried a bunch of more elaborate fixes no less. Thanks! On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 1:06 am, Peter wrote: >I've been having the same problem myself, interestingly if you LOG OFF and back on, >instead of restarting, etc.., everything loads properly. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Saturday, August 1, 2009 at 7:56 pm Posted by rpm (1 messages posted) I had a blue screen error after doing a registry cleaning. A few of my icons like volume, battery life, wireless network icon, adaware, teatimer, and safely remove hardware disappeared. I did Start -> Run -> "chkdsk /f /r" and then also added this process (all icons are back except for power status): Run the window registry editor (START, RUN, regedit) You need to create a new String Value called "systray" in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Then give in the value: "C:\WINDOWS\system32\systray.exe" To do all this: 1. START, RUN, type "regedit", hit enter 2. Once in the Registry Editor, navigate the left directory tree to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run 3. Then right click on the right window pane, click new, then string value. 4. Give the new string value the name "systray" 5. Your new value should now have the name "systray", the type "REG_SZ", and no data. 6. Right click on your new "systray" value and click "modify". 7. Now give "systray" the value data: "C:\WINDOWS\system32\systray.exe" 8. Click ok and close the Registry Editor. 9. Restart your computer. Next you must perform this registry change (this copied from the Clumsy Hamster, thanks) 1. Open up the registry (run > regedit) browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > 2. Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > policies 3. Create a new key named "Explorer" without the quotes (right click > New > Key) 4. Create a new DWORD Value named "NoTrayItemsDisplay" without the quotes (right click > New > DWORD Value) 5. Modify the NoTrayItemsDisplay and make sure the value is 0 (right click > Modify) Once these have been done ensure that "systray" in msconfig>startup is enabled by the tick box. By doing these steps you have also ensured the UPnP is still functioning for the networking side of things (being my job I kinda needed it) Restart the machine and problem solved On Sunday, November 21, 2004 at 4:51 am, Malko wrote: >I have the same problem, started before SP2 installation... > >I tryed everythings and it continue, but last time I done a "chkdsk /f /r", to find >and solve some bad cluster, and I check some difference. > >Now icons appear every time, but i don't know that this is the real solution, because >I sow a time icons disappear again! > >bye bye > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 6:54 am Posted by Jessica (1 messages posted) Try right clicking on a blank spot then click properties and then click the tab that says notification area. It the volumes tick box is grey and you can't select it, then you have to log off and back on to your computer until it comes back. This is something that happens with all vista users and it ususally only takes one time logging out and back it to fix it. I hope this helps! :D On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 9:48 pm, Louis wrote: >When I restart my computer, the only icon showing in the system tray is for Norton >Antivirus. There are about five other icons that should be there, but they're not >-- even though the programs themselves are running. If I load another program after >startup is complete, e.g. AOL Instant Messenger, it appears in the systray as normal. >Also, the icon to control volume is missing, and I can only restore it by going to >Sound in the control panel, unchecking "Place volume icon in taskbar" and clicking >Apply, and then rechecking it and clicking Apply again. >What the heck is going on? I replaced my systray.exe file from the installation CD, >so I know that's not the issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 12:38 pm Posted by Buckeye5 (2 messages posted) An old thread, but I was having this problem recently. This fix worked beautifully for me Sean! Thanks so much for posting it! On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 3:05 am, Sean Burns wrote: > >I've found an easier cure. It worked for me so you could try it:- >Right-click on My Computer >Click on Manage >Expand 'Services & Applications' >Highlight 'Services' >Look through list of services on the right.... >Find Universal Plug & Play Device Host >Right-click on it. >Click properties. >Change startup type to 'Disabled' >Do exactly the same with 'SSDP discovery service' >Problem should be solved. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Sunday, September 6, 2009 at 10:17 am Posted by Diane (2 messages posted) My fix was similar: Under Services, I simply changed IMAPI CD BURNING COM SVC to "automatic". My missing icons reappeared. I had read a white paper that said when Windows starts, it doesn't have time to load all the system icons in the sytem tray -- so it just leaves them out. By activating one more service, it slowed the start up just enough (microseconds) to allow Windows time to load all the icons. This was a permanent fix. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Sunday, September 27, 2009 at 12:29 pm Posted by stormspotter1 (1 messages posted) I did what was suggested, LOG OFF then back on, and now all of the icons show in system tray. The APC PowerChute icon was not showing, now it's back!! THANKS!! On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 1:06 am, Peter wrote: >I've been having the same problem myself, interestingly if you LOG OFF and back on, >instead of restarting, etc.., everything loads properly. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Hopefully a solution! Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 6:49 pm Posted by Brian (1 messages posted) On Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 11:58 am, Shondra wrote:...I created a shortcut from my C:\Windows\System32 folder from sndvol32 >and created a shortcut to my desktop... Finally! Someone in this thread identifies the actual executable file. :) In my case, the file was simply missing--no wonder I could not use the control panel "Sounds and Audio devices--Place Volume Control on Taskbar." (I kept getting a "the volume program is not installed" message but I did not know the name of the program that needed to be installed.) The following Microsoft link explains the necessary steps to restore the program to the System32 folder: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319095 Once I expanded the file from the i386 folder, I was able to click the option to display in the task bar from the Control Panel "Sounds and Audio Devices" selection. Now the mystery is *why* did that program just disappear in the first place? Did Spybot or some other malware detection engine think it was malware and whack it? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: icons missing from system tray Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 2:24 pm Posted by Trev (1 messages posted) The "missing Systray icons" is caused by a timing issue with "explorer.exe" and other applications/services when XP starts up. all that is required is a restart of explorer.exe after xp is up - which a logoff/on does of course. A permanent "work-around" is to put two commands in "autoexec.bat" to stop and start "explorer.exe" later in XP startup. See my post here: http://www.pcuser.com.au/pcuser/hs2.nsf/lookup+1/69632514B75E6CC3CA256E9800158195 [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum