Lost my Icons in my taskbar by the system clock

[Ankit Shah]

I lost my volume bar and other icons. How do I get the icons back on my task bar.

Here are the icons I lost:

1: Volume
2: D-Link Air Plus Icon
3: Power Icon
4: Pop-up Stopper
5: Visionary One-Touch Monitor
6: Unplugged external device Icon (Microsoft)

The only Icon near my clock is the Norton Anti-Virus Auto Protect

Can anyone help me out on what to do.

Ankit Shah

 

[Tim]

Do you see a little circular button with a less than sign ("<") in it? If so,
click it.... Windows XP is automatically hiding your un-used icons which is a
normal feature.

If you wish to override these settings, right-click on the clock and select
Customize Notifications....

Tim


I lost my volume bar and other icons. How do I get the icons back on my task
bar.

Here are the icons I lost:

1: Volume
2: D-Link Air Plus Icon
3: Power Icon
4: Pop-up Stopper
5: Visionary One-Touch Monitor
6: Unplugged external device Icon (Microsoft)

The only Icon near my clock is the Norton Anti-Virus Auto Protect

Can anyone help me out on what to do.

Ankit Shah

 

[Ankit Shah]

That is not the problem. Ha ha ah. LOL If were that simple I would shot
myself by now. The icons are not hiding they are not showing up on taskbar
near the clock. I checked the processes on task manager and those processes
are running. Meaning they are running in the back ground but the icons are
not appearing. like they are suppose to.

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

Has a recent crash happened? Gotten any errors referring to Explorer.exe ??

MANY times, Explorer will crash on me for no reason (usually happens at
the same
time I'm working in a Multimedia folder, like one that has MP3's or MPG's)....
and the window will close for no reason, clear indication that you have just
suffered from a crash.

When Explorer closes, the taskbar (the ENTIRE taskbar) goes away, and then
Windows XP logs it in the event viewer, and restarts the Shell (Explorer.exe).
Problem with this, is that you lose any icons that were in your tasktray....

Situation like that, you reboot....... it fixes it.... that is until it crashes
again

<snip>

You can avoid that by setting explorer to 'run desktop as separate
process' in the registry. Unfortunately the even more useful 'run all
explorer windows as separate processes' has been broken by MS, and they
show no signs of fixing it.

see:
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/950/