Since you were so helpful last time I had a computer problem, I gifured this is the place to go

Okey, so the first problem (and the least important of the two) is that MSN wont let me connect. I'm obviously connected, and when I check my status with the .NET Messenger Service, it says I'm connected. Also, doing the search for connection errors through msn tells me I can connect. However, the problem is that when I connect, it just keeps connecting and connecting... and connecting. No popup message telling me I can't log on right now, just two spinning guys. They can spin for hours without anything happening. I've tried the basic things like a repair, re-boot, close and open etc., nothing works.


Problem number two is a bit more annoying.
I'll send a screenshot describing the problem.

Sometimes (not every time) when I right click an icon in the systray, for example, Gmail Notifier, the popup menu for systray itself also pops up. I have no idea whatsoever what to do to fix this, and I don't remember when it started doing this. I think it was sometime this summer.

I don't have my fix/reinstall cd of WinXP, so I really have no idea what to do.

[I'm not sure how to include a screenshot properly, so if someone could edit to make it look better, I'd be happy, thanks.]

No one knows what the problem is?

Problem #1 is solved long time ago, but I still don't know what to do about problem #2...

I'm not sure, do you have any system tray enhancement tools installed or anything like that? It does seem like a very strange problem to have, and I've not seen it before myself.

Not that I know of, no. I stay away from plugins and enhancements and stuff... I've had this problem for about half a year now, and it's pretyt random. It doesn't happen all the time, and only to some icons (Like gmail notifyer and iTunes)