Disappearing Icons

[Dennis]

A thousand pardons if this has been asked/answered before (I'm certain I'm
not the only one) but here's my problem.

Some of my icon do not appear on the taskbar (that's the icons on the right
side, next to the clock.)
One example is the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon.

The method I'm using to get them back is to kill explorer and restart it as
process, then all of the icons show up.

Anyone have any ideas as to why all of the icons don't show when Windows XP
Pro is started and need to have explorer restarted to show them all?

 

[David Candy]

I have found fix for the missing XP tray Icons on the home page of
Tech-pro.net. The solution worked for me just fine as suggested on the web
site which was to disable the UPNP using the provided reg file UPNPOFF.REG.
But that got me thinking that it must be something that does this other then
UPNP and I found the actual culprit. This is really dumb but it worked. Open
My Network Placers and click on the "Hide icon for networked UPnP devices"
located in the Network Task area of this window. If there is "Show icons for
networked devices" in this location instead then the problem must be
someplace else.

 

[Dennis]

Sorry, forgot to mention that I DO NOT have "Hide Inactive Icons" selected.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/msg/8887f5e562ae9b69

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Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User

Windows XP Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com

 

[Dennis]

David, I tried this and the fix worked for me as well.
Last several days I get the proper icons on the tray.

Thanks for posting it.
Dennis