Icons in System Tray

[LostNavigator]

Does anyone know how XP Home decides what icons to put in the system
tray? At the moment I have nine, but at other times I only have 3 or 4
.... I have not installed/ uninstalled anything.

 

[Red 5]

Does anyone know how XP Home decides what icons to put in the system
tray? At the moment I have nine, but at other times I only have 3 or 4
... I have not installed/ uninstalled anything.

under taskbar properties there is an option to hide tray icons that are
inactive. If you have this box checked that would account for why you
have a varying number of icons at any given time.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

under taskbar properties there is an option to hide tray icons that
are inactive. If you have this box checked that would account for why
you have a varying number of icons at any given time.

To LostNavigator: Red 5's answer above is probably correct, but if that's
not why, post back with details of which ones are always there and which
ones are there only soimetimes.

 

[thecreator]

Hi Red 5,

This has got nothing to do with the problem. A Print Screen of the
problem saids it all. I attached small Print Screens of the Notification
Area, which I just posted to this group under:
Miissing Startup Icons in Notification Area

The operating system is Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2. - 2
GBits of RAM and my processor speed is 2.93 GHz.