Help! No active process icons appearing on taskbar

[Wendie Luter]

Help! No active process icons appearing on taskbar

Just above the clock, my old XPSP2 would have the icons for my
anti-virus program, net connections, volume adjustments, so on. I
installed a new edition of WinXP-SP2 Office Pro, now no icons!

Can someone tell me how to turn them on?

Thank you

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

See if disabling the SSDP Discovery Service and Universal Plug and Play Device Host service help. For more information, check the following articles.

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

When you restart the computer, the icons in the notification area are missing
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=841571

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Help! No active process icons appearing on taskbar

Just above the clock, my old XPSP2 would have the icons for my
anti-virus program, net connections, volume adjustments, so on. I
installed a new edition of WinXP-SP2 Office Pro, now no icons!

Can someone tell me how to turn them on?

Thank you

 

[Wendie Luter]

Help! No active process icons appearing on taskbar

Just above the clock, my old XPSP2 would have the icons for my
anti-virus program, net connections, volume adjustments, so on. I
installed a new edition of WinXP-SP2 Office Pro, now no icons!

Can someone tell me how to turn them on?

Thank you

SOLVED!

Well, I guess my fatigue from work and family demands sapped my brain.
Late Thursday night I unintentionally turned off "Show taskbar
notification icons" using MS's TweakUI PowerToy.

TweakUI overode this option so it was greyed out in control panel.
This is why I couldn't turn them using the taskbar options in control
panel.

Thanks to all who wrote!

Wendie

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Thanks for the update!

Related links

"Hide inactive icons" is greyed out in Taskbar Properties:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/traynotify.htm

NoTrayItemsDisplay:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windo...aec8-46db-9a49-989889dc28c71033.mspx?mfr=true

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com

Help! No active process icons appearing on taskbar

Just above the clock, my old XPSP2 would have the icons for my
anti-virus program, net connections, volume adjustments, so on. I
installed a new edition of WinXP-SP2 Office Pro, now no icons!

Can someone tell me how to turn them on?

Thank you

SOLVED!

Well, I guess my fatigue from work and family demands sapped my brain.
Late Thursday night I unintentionally turned off "Show taskbar
notification icons" using MS's TweakUI PowerToy.

TweakUI overode this option so it was greyed out in control panel.
This is why I couldn't turn them using the taskbar options in control
panel.

Thanks to all who wrote!

Wendie