No icons in Notification Area

[Baseman]

I have just reciently installed XP Pro SP1 on my newly
built comp. 3.0 cpu w/ht, 2gig ram, 400gig SATA-RAID,
800Mhz fsb....etc. This is not your neighbours
computer!! I spent over $4000.00 building this computer
and am really dissappointed with the partictular problem
I am having with Windows. Most of the time when the
computer gets turned on, the active running icons in the
notification area don't display. I know the programs are
still running in the background somewhere but the icons
don't display. I know they are still running cause one
of the icons that won't display is my pop up stopper
program. The program is still stopping the pop up's
which is great, but I have other programs I would like to
access from the notification area. If anyone has any
idea as to what is going on here and/or if you have a
fix, can you please post a message. I posted my e-mail
on here a while back and got nothing but junk mail after
that. I won't do that again.
Thank you for your time and help.
Baseman

 

[Guest]

Impressive
Kind of overkill though..

Right-Click Start button and select Properties
On Taskbar tab uncheck Hide inactive icons (last box
Click O

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[Guest]

Thank you for this seemingly simple answer but this is
not a simple problem. When I experience this problem the
icons do not load. You can expand or choose not to hide
the icons but they will still not be there. Got any more
ideas???

-----Original Message-----
Impressive!
Kind of overkill though...

Right-Click Start button and select Properties.
On Taskbar tab uncheck Hide inactive icons (last box)
Click OK


Check out this article:

Low transfat and low carb diet for your pc or How to

optimize Windows XP for the best performance:

 

[R. McCarty]

Download Tweak-UI for XP. Expand the Taskbar
category and make sure a check is in the box for
"Show Taskbar Notification Icons"

 

[Alex Nichol]

Thank you for this seemingly simple answer but this is
not a simple problem. When I experience this problem the
icons do not load. You can expand or choose not to hide
the icons but they will still not be there. Got any more
ideas???

I notice this occasionally after the reboot on loading certain software
(ATI Catalyst drivers for one I think). It appears that the second
phase of the install is interfering with the mechanism that displays the
icon when a program starts up - but the effect goes on a subsequent
reboot.

I think what I would do is clear out the stored history of these icons -
with regedit.exe go to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Explorer\TrayNotify
and in the right pane delete the two lines IconStreams and Past
IconStreams

Then logout and on for things to start over

 

[Randy]

This is what I suggested with this:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;283084&Product=winxp