Sys-tray progs & icons

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Using XP home.

When I start up the computer, the items that I expect to appear in the sys
tray aren't always there. For example, the icons for the wireless mouse &
keyboard sometimes don't appear, yet the the hardware is working OK.
Sometimes my scanner icons aren't there, yet the scanner works OK.

Once in a while, the desktop resets itself for no apparent reason, and after
that, most of the sys tray icons vanish, yet the programs they relate to
seem to be running.

I regularly scan for virus/ad & spyware etc, but nothing untoward is
indictaed.

It's more of an annoyance than a serious problem, but if anyone has any
thoughts as to how to put it right, I'd like to hear them.

Cheers

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I was amused in writing the above post that OE's spellchecker flagged
"unchecking" as unknown and offered "upchucking" as a correction. Is
upchucking more common among computer users than unchecking a box? As in,
(paraphrasing the sea chanty) "What shall we do with the drunken
emailer...."

"Dave S." <kilojot@netscape.net> wrote in message
news:300pnvF2p9besU1@uni-berlin.de...
> Using XP home.
>
> When I start up the computer, the items that I expect to appear in the sys
> tray aren't always there. For example, the icons for the wireless mouse &
> keyboard sometimes don't appear, yet the the hardware is working OK.
> Sometimes my scanner icons aren't there, yet the scanner works OK.
>
> Once in a while, the desktop resets itself for no apparent reason, and
> after
> that, most of the sys tray icons vanish, yet the programs they relate to
> seem to be running.
>
> I regularly scan for virus/ad & spyware etc, but nothing untoward is
> indictaed.
>
> It's more of an annoyance than a serious problem, but if anyone has any
> thoughts as to how to put it right, I'd like to hear them.
>
> Cheers
>
>

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"Ian" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have the same effect but I have no little chevron and all
> of the icons in the taskbar are enabled. (Right click on
> taskbar, select properties, customize and then set all to
> "always show" ). What happens is there's a randomness about
> which ones show. Some show briefly and then disappear.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Do you see the left pointing chevron to the left of the
> clock on the right
> >side of the taskbar? Pointing to that will cause the
> hidden icons to appear
> >briefly. The least frequently accessed programs are
> hidden to save space on
> >the taskbar, but you can change this by right clicking on
> the taskbar,
> >choosing Properties, selecting the Taskbar tab, and
> unchecking the bottom
> >box, "Hide inactive icons."
> >

Same here. The little chevron only appears if you select "hide inactive
icons", and I do not use that setting.
Each time I reboot, the sys tray icons that appear seems to be random, both
in number and identity, yet the programs the missing ones represent seem to
be running OK.

Very strange!

Dave S.