Hide inactive icons - fails to work

[Joshua Stark]

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone else is having a problem, where this feature
is not working.

I have un-ticked the box and all the icons show on the right side of the
task bar (in the tray) and then I tick the box and hit apply and there
is no button to the right of the tray icons, nor do they hide.

It was working before and now its not.

I have reinstalled SP1 and all the latest update and that has not fixed it.

Any Idea's?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

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| Hello,
|
| I was wondering if anyone else is having a problem, where this feature
| is not working.
|
| I have un-ticked the box and all the icons show on the right side of the
| task bar (in the tray) and then I tick the box and hit apply and there
| is no button to the right of the tray icons, nor do they hide.
|
| It was working before and now its not.
|
| I have reinstalled SP1 and all the latest update and that has not fixed it.
|
| Any Idea's?

 

[Joshua Stark]

Thanks, but that doesn't help,

When you select the button in the nice windows GUI or use any of the VB
scripts or reg script all they do is alter a value in the registry. I
can do that manually, just as easily.

The point is, making the change doesn't work, there is no change to the
task bar. The fault is that Windows Explorer is not picking up the
change in the registry and thus not displaying the "hide inactive icons"
button in the system tray, thus the feature is not working.

I think the problem is either a permissions issue in the registry (like
its corrupt) that Explorer is not able to read the change, or there is a
bug in Explorer (more likely) that its now not reading this value anymore.

Thanks.