Icons missing in taskbar notification area

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How To: Fix Missing System Tray Icons at Windows XP startup:
http://www.tech-pro.net/howto_013.html

Notification area icons are missing at startup:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/trayicons.htm

--
Ramesh, Windows XP MVP
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


"v-ger@earthlink.net" <v93rearth> wrote in message
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>I have some programs loading when Windows XP Home starts up and the icons
>are suppose to show in the taskbar notification area. However, not all of
>them do show in the notification area. In different cases I will have
>different ones show and some that never will show. The interesting part is
>that all the programs load when Windows starts and I know that since they
>are listed in the processes tab of task manager.I have the notification
>area set to where it will show all icons by having the option to hide them
>disabled. My last setup had no problems with showing icons, yet my fresh
>install has problems showing all of them. I never had any problems like
>this before and I find it quite annoying since I actually use those icons.
>Does anyone have any suggestions or fixes in mind?
>

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Hi, I had similar problem found the answer here:
www.michna.com/kb/WxSystray.htm

"v-ger@earthlink.net" <v93rearth> wrote in message
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>I have some programs loading when Windows XP Home starts up and the icons
>are suppose to show in the taskbar notification area. However, not all of
>them do show in the notification area. In different cases I will have
>different ones show and some that never will show. The interesting part is
>that all the programs load when Windows starts and I know that since they
>are listed in the processes tab of task manager.I have the notification
>area set to where it will show all icons by having the option to hide them
>disabled. My last setup had no problems with showing icons, yet my fresh
>install has problems showing all of them. I never had any problems like
>this before and I find it quite annoying since I actually use those icons.
>Does anyone have any suggestions or fixes in mind?
>

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I just found out today after losing some of my tray icons, including the
volume icon, how to fix them all very easily.
Just "log off" and "log back on" and all your startup icons are restored. I
know, sounds too easy, but it works.
--
Retired Boeing Bill


"v-ger@earthlink.net" wrote:

> I have some programs loading when Windows XP Home starts up and the icons
> are suppose to show in the taskbar notification area. However, not all of
> them do show in the notification area. In different cases I will have
> different ones show and some that never will show. The interesting part is
> that all the programs load when Windows starts and I know that since they
> are listed in the processes tab of task manager.I have the notification area
> set to where it will show all icons by having the option to hide them
> disabled. My last setup had no problems with showing icons, yet my fresh
> install has problems showing all of them. I never had any problems like this
> before and I find it quite annoying since I actually use those icons. Does
> anyone have any suggestions or fixes in mind?
>
>
>