hide inactive tray icons button disabled

[newsbirdie2]

I shutdown my computer and the next day the button "hide inactive tray
icons" was disabled. It's been like that for a few days now despite
rebooting and I can't figure out why. I can't enable it and now I have
my tray icons taking up a lot of space on the task bar. A search on
google doesn't turn up any results.

Does anyone know why this button would be disabled? What should I do?

Thanks
Michael

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Michael,

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

Use System Restore to Undo Changes if Problems Occur:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/systemrestore.mspx

 

[newsbirdie2]

This fixed my problem. No idea how that got changed but with our
"helpdesk" one never knows. Thank you very much, I book marked the
site for future reference!

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

You're welcome!

 

[Zankhna]

This fixed my problem. No idea how that got changed but with our
"helpdesk" one never knows. Thank you very much, I book marked the
site for future reference!

Hi

I missed the earlier posts regarding this can you pass on the solution
please?

Thanks

Z

 

[Zankhna]

This fixed my problem. No idea how that got changed but with our
"helpdesk" one never knows. Thank you very much, I book marked the
site for future reference!

sorry I should have said but the problem i face is that I dont have hide
icond selected and yet still some icons hide anyway. is this similar to
what you had?

Z