icons not showing up on startup

[Guest]

I am running Windows Vista Ultimate on my CyberpowerPC laptop. Occasionally
on startup, my battery meter, network manager and volume icons do not show up
in my task bar. I have to restart to get them to show up. What could be
causing this? It is very annoying.

 

[Guest]

As I can see from other posts that my only solution is to restart or logoff.
once again, thanks for a great product, Microsoft.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Eric,

Have you tried stopping and restarting the explorer shell? It may be that
they are loading but not making it to the taskbar. If this is the case, it's
likely that something else in your startup routine is interfering with the
process.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Guest]

Rick, how would I go about doing that? I don't think it is it because it has
been doing it since I got the computer, but I am up to try anything. Also,
after I restart the explorer shell, and something else is causing it, what
would I do to isolate the problem. Thanks.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Eric,

Hit ctrl+shift+escape to open task manager, then kill ("end process")
explorer.exe on the processes tab after logging on. Then go to the
applications tab and click "new task" and enter explorer.exe, click ok. This
will restart the explorer shell. If the icons show up now, it means that
something in your startup axis is interfering with them initializing.

If it is just your user account that is affected, the startup folder would
be the first place to look. If it is all accounts on this machine, then you
can use msconfig's startup tab to selective enable and disable processes
that are loading at boot to isolate which one is the cause. I would start by
disabling antivirus/antimalware applications as they tend to be a major
cause of these things. Also, the Google desktop has been shown to cause some
odd behavior, you might try uninstalling it if this applies to you.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com