icons in system tray keep turning off

[bbhagrid]

after i had rebooted several days ago several icons in the system tray
keep getting turned off upon reboot, the icons affected are my
antivirus, mouse suite, sound, and keyboard...i have tried going back
to a saved registry but it didnt work and also used the repair console
but nothing is helping as when i reboot the icons are missing again and
the programs arent working

 

[bbhagrid]

after i had rebooted several days ago several icons in the system tray
keep getting turned off upon reboot, the icons affected are my
antivirus, mouse suite, sound, and keyboard...i have tried going back
to a saved registry but it didnt work and also used the repair console
but nothing is helping as when i reboot the icons are missing again and
the programs arent working......win2000 sp4 is my os

 

[DL]

Initially scan your sys with AV and malaware apps
http://www.microsoft.com/security/default.mspx

 

[bbhagrid]

Initially scan your sys with AV and malaware apps
http://www.microsoft.com/security/default.mspx

I have scanned several times and always come up clean, even did an
online scan and was clean

 

[Dave Patrick]

Always check Event viewer for errors. If you find something to the effect
"the shell stopped unexpectedly" then this may help.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| I have scanned several times and always come up clean, even did an
| online scan and was clean
|

 

[bbhagrid]

Always check Event viewer for errors. If you find something to the effect
"the shell stopped unexpectedly" then this may help.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html


--

Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| I have scanned several times and always come up clean, even did an
| online scan and was clean
|

nothing in the event viewer except for aol problems

 

[DL]

But did you scan with all three malaware apps?
An AV scan is totally different

 

[bbhagrid]

But did you scan with all three malaware apps?
An AV scan is totally different

I scanned with spybot search and destroy, pest patrol, xoftspy, and
microsoft antispyware, av was done with avast pro all are up to date
and nothing was found, online scan was with panda

 

[DL]

Control Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager
any yellow exclamation marks?

 

[bbhagrid]

Control Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager
any yellow exclamation marks?

no, there are no yellow exclamation marks

 

[DL]

I'll assume you havent inadvertantly turned off anything in msconfig?
If not, locate your AV 'exe' files eg, then check Running Processes to see
if its running
or what happens if you start your AV manually?

 

[bbhagrid]

I'll assume you havent inadvertantly turned off anything in msconfig?
If not, locate your AV 'exe' files eg, then check Running Processes to see
if its running
or what happens if you start your AV manually?

if i start it manually it stays until rebooting, i have not turned off
anything in msconfig this just started when i had rebooted a couple
days ago

 

[DL]

Is your AV shown in msconfig, allthough it can be a little difficult to work
out what should be there.
Or if you reinstall one of your dissappearing apps, does it then stick?