Hide Inactive Icons Greyed Out

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Guest

I have exhausted all System Restore Points, yet cannot make
the Hide Inactive Icons in the Taskbar appear again: it is "greyed out".
What Registry Tweak is required to activate it again?
(System: Windows XP PRo SP2)

Tks
 
G

Guest

Thanks Wes - I merged enableautotray.reg downloaded from the site indicated,
but Hide Inactive Icons remains greyed out. Opened enableautotray.reg in
Notepad and noticed the value "EnableAutoTray"=dword:00000001, then checked
my registry and it agreed with this, only it had (1) after it.
I rebooted justincase...but same results.
Any more suggestions please?

Poltonis
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Ramesh, MS-MVP

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

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Poltonis said:
Thanks Wes - I merged enableautotray.reg downloaded from the site
indicated,
but Hide Inactive Icons remains greyed out. Opened enableautotray.reg in
Notepad and noticed the value "EnableAutoTray"=dword:00000001, then
checked
my registry and it agreed with this, only it had (1) after it.
I rebooted justincase...but same results.
Any more suggestions please?

Poltonis
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G

Guest

As I was reading your post Ramesh, I had just found out the culprit for this
problem: it was "me". Some weeks back I was fiddling with Norton's Utilities
System Optimizer and had check-marked Start menu /Turn off System Tray
CleanUp. I am explaining this for the benefit of other NAV users.

Anyhow, thanks to both of you for taking the time to offer advice and help:
it is very much appreciated.
I have also bookmarked http://windowsxp.mvps.org/traynotify.htm - it's most
useful

Best regards

poltonis
 
W

Wesley Vogel

Poltonis,

I have met the enemy and he is us. <LOL>

Norton strikes again!

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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