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More info?)
See if this helps:
Right-click a blank area on the TaskBar, click Properties> Taskbar tab. Click the
Customize button to adjust the settings for your Power Options notification area
icon, which may be disapppearing and reappearing due to the "Hide inactive icons"
option being enabled.
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Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
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<greatscotinla@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I should have added in my original question that the option is checked
> in Control Panel / Power Options / Advanced / "always show icon on the
> task bar". Nevertheless, the icons have vanished. They've done this
> before, and then they miraculously reappear as if they had simply gone
> to the beach for the weekend and have now returned. Currently, they're
> AWOL again. Is there a legitimate reason for their on-again, off-again
> display?
>