Missing Notification Area Icons

[The Wanderer]

I'm running XP SP2 and everything is pretty much up to date. I have one
small problem that doesn't seem to be covered in the KB.

I have several processes running in the background which should have icons
in the notification area, bottom right, but they're not showing at all. A
couple that come to mind immediately are M$'s Antispyware, and Call
Attendant (telephone answering). They're not in the hidden icons, and the
progs are working (telephone call incoming and the window pops up). This
seems to have developed over the last few days.

I've tried closing the progs down and re-opening them, but the icons are
not showing up in the notification area.

 

[David Candy]

I have found fix for the missing XP tray Icons on the home page of
Tech-pro.net. The solution worked for me just fine as suggested on the web
site which was to disable the UPNP using the provided reg file UPNPOFF.REG.
But that got me thinking that it must be something that does this other then
UPNP and I found the actual culprit. This is really dumb but it worked. Open
My Network Placers and click on the "Hide icon for networked UPnP devices"
located in the Network Task area of this window. If there is "Show icons for
networked devices" in this location instead then the problem must be
someplace else.

 

[The Wanderer]

I have found fix for the missing XP tray Icons on the home page of
Tech-pro.net.

Ta very much, took a quick look and tried some of the suggestions, I've got
all my icons back now!

 

[David Candy]

Good.