Hi Denny ... Not the taskbar, that appears fine. its the (typical) lower right area system tray's icons. I see the clock but none of the icons that should be there (such as Antivirus, outlook mail notify, etc) All of these apps have "show icon in system tray" turned on -- but there is something wrong with it.
Boy .. this gets weirder. I didnt know that this was a common problem. I did all the suggestions in the Knowledgebase and did a clean boot and a safe boot and that made no difference. Then, I did the suggestions at the TechPro Site and used their utility (great site and nice mini tools) and that made no difference. The weird thing that Ive noticed is that the Taskbar Properties -- in the area to select "hide inactive icons" is greyed out and I cant change anything with that area. I tried disabling USB, I did the account signon change --- none of it changes the system tray or the greyed out area. Seems like its abit different than what is documented in those websites, but thanks for sending ...
Any more ideas??? I really rely on the systray in my other computers for background apps and its difficult to manage those apps without having a way to get to them.
It took me awhile to get the time to work further on this, but it turns out that the link that you had in the last email -- I went to "Hide All Notification Area Icons - Undo" and that solved it. Whew -- I was about to reinstall the whole OS AGAIN (just did it past weekend to help speed it up) because I rely on that system tray area more than I thought I did.
Thanks again for taking the effort to write and help out.
ctcurry
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February 5th, 2004 01:00
Denny Denham
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February 5th, 2004 01:00
Is the whole taskbar missing (see this or just the system tray/notification area?
Denny Denham
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February 5th, 2004 01:00
There are some suggestions here as well as a link to a utility suite which purportedly will solve the problem.
ctcurry
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February 5th, 2004 02:00
Boy .. this gets weirder. I didnt know that this was a common problem. I did all the suggestions in the Knowledgebase and did a clean boot and a safe boot and that made no difference. Then, I did the suggestions at the TechPro Site and used their utility (great site and nice mini tools) and that made no difference. The weird thing that Ive noticed is that the Taskbar Properties -- in the area to select "hide inactive icons" is greyed out and I cant change anything with that area. I tried disabling USB, I did the account signon change --- none of it changes the system tray or the greyed out area. Seems like its abit different than what is documented in those websites, but thanks for sending ...
Any more ideas??? I really rely on the systray in my other computers for background apps and its difficult to manage those apps without having a way to get to them.
Denny Denham
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February 5th, 2004 04:00
There are some ideas (and some duplicates) under "Icons - Notification Area - Missing" here.
Just for general principles, you might give System File Checker a try. (Start|Run, type sfc /scannow and OK.)
ctcurry
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February 6th, 2004 20:00
THANK YOU DENNY!
It took me awhile to get the time to work further on this, but it turns out that the link that you had in the last email -- I went to "Hide All Notification Area Icons - Undo" and that solved it. Whew -- I was about to reinstall the whole OS AGAIN (just did it past weekend to help speed it up) because I rely on that system tray area more than I thought I did.
Thanks again for taking the effort to write and help out.
Chris