Notification Area Icon Issue

[CoastMtns]

For some unknown reason, well unknown to me, at times, when a few select
programs
(unrelated programs i.e.games , a yahoo window) open an icon of a
small black rotary telephone, that has the handset rise as if ringing,
appears in the notification area in the bottom right of the window. This is
accompanied by what I would describe as a wave sound of "exclamation", for
lack of a better word. When I scroll over it with the mouse the words
"Close Speaker Phone Companion" appear. I can only left click on it and it
closes. I searched through my PC's wav files and found nothing similar.
Task manager gave no clues. I have searched the web and found nothing.

So I was wondering, is there a way I can search to see what programs are
running when that icon appears?

thanks, Bob

 

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
This search returned the question but not the answer ;-)
http://www.google.com/search?q="speaker+phone+companion"&hl=en

Sounds like this may be related to Yahoo chat or messenger (?)

Try this when the phone icon is present...
Start> Run> msinfo32> Software environment> Running Tasks. In the right
pane, Ctrl+a (select all) then Ctrl+c (copy) Paste that into a reply, see if
someone spots a task that might be causing this.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]