missing system tray icon

[Guest]

a couple of weeks ago the safely remove hardware icon dissappeared from my
system tray. i use it to disconnect a digital camera and mp3 players. anyone
know how to get it back? i allready have "always show" checked in taskbar and
start menu properties.

 

[Guest]

i followed the advice below that i did not see in search about the xp problem
of missing system tray icons not showing up. by disabling ssdp and upap this
restored the safely remove hardware icon.

 

[Guest]

Dan,
Could you be a little more specific on how you solved this. I am having
same problem! tks,

 

[Rock]

Dan,
Could you be a little more specific on how you solved this. I am having
same problem! tks,

The method Dan speaks of is disabling two services - the SSDP Discovery
Service and Universal Plug and Play Device Host Service.

Go to Start | Run. Type in "services.msc" without the quotes. Click
ok. In the resulting window on the right side scroll down to each of
those services. Double click on it. If started stop the service. Then
set the start up type to disabled.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

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

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Regards,

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


Dan,
Could you be a little more specific on how you solved this. I am having
same problem! tks,