"hide inactive icons" stops working

[Vic Vega]

For the three-plus years I've been using the same profile on my same
Windows XP Pro (SP1 + some hotfixes) installation, I've had the option to
"hide inactive icons" in the notification area/system tray set, and my
inactive icons have been hidden. The familiar arrow icon has always been
at the left hand side of the system tray.

Starting this morning, my inactive icons are no longer hidden. I see all
the system tray icons, and I can't get any of them to be hidden. I've
repeatedly disabled and re-enabled the hide icons option in the taskbar
properties, logged off and logged back on, rebooted (grasping at straws
here), and combinations thereof, to no avail. Is there a fix for this?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Visit http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_i.htm and scroll down to
"Icons - Notification Area - Chevron Missing".

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
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| For the three-plus years I've been using the same profile on my same
| Windows XP Pro (SP1 + some hotfixes) installation, I've had the option to
| "hide inactive icons" in the notification area/system tray set, and my
| inactive icons have been hidden. The familiar arrow icon has always been
| at the left hand side of the system tray.
|
| Starting this morning, my inactive icons are no longer hidden. I see all
| the system tray icons, and I can't get any of them to be hidden. I've
| repeatedly disabled and re-enabled the hide icons option in the taskbar
| properties, logged off and logged back on, rebooted (grasping at straws
| here), and combinations thereof, to no avail. Is there a fix for this?

 

[Vic Vega]

Visit http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_i.htm and scroll down to
"Icons - Notification Area - Chevron Missing".

Yowza that was fast. Thank you. I seem to be particularly inept at
crafting Google, et cetera, searches to find these things. While the
suggested fix:

"For some users, setting the very first icon to Always Hide, restores the
arrow."

works for me, my first icon is my Outlook new mail notification, so I guess
I need to revisit my searches and find the program across which I stumbled
that allows one to rearrange the order of the system tray icons. This is
also exactly the type of goofy Windows inconsistency that kinda-sorta makes
me see the Linuxheads' point.