Restoring icons in system tray

[Martin C.E.]

Sometimes my XP system has a bad turn during operation and it can
lose icons from the system tray.

How can I regenerate or restore those icons without rebooting?

 

[S.Sengupta]

Hi!
There is a very good tool:-
PS Tray Factory will allow you:
- hide low-activity icons from a system tray into menu;
- hide inactive icons from a system tray into menu;
- get fast access to the hidden icons with the help of hot keys;
- change the order of icons in the menu;
- hide from the menu seldom used icons;
- restore icons in system tray area at crash or restarting Explorer.exe.
http://www.pssoftlab.com/download/pstrayf.zip

regards/
ssg/pronetworks.org

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

Sometimes my XP system has a bad turn during operation and it can
lose icons from the system tray.

How can I regenerate or restore those icons without rebooting?

Logoff and logon again. Or, less drasticly (from task manager) kill the
explorer.exe process and then restart it. This is a known problem with
XP.

 

[Maureen Goldman]

Sometimes my XP system has a bad turn during operation and it can
lose icons from the system tray.

How can I regenerate or restore those icons without rebooting?

Some interesting answers have been posted to your question. Just
curious: Why don't you want to reboot? That would be my first
recourse.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Logoff and logon again. Or, less drasticly (from task manager) kill the
explorer.exe process and then restart it. This is a known problem with
XP.

You have to get the programs concerned restarted or they will not put
their icons back. A simple restart of explorer will not restore program
icons, nor restart the programs themselves. They have probably gone
*because* explorer.exe hiccuped and restarted itself

 

[Martin C.E.]

Some interesting answers have been posted to your question. Just
curious: Why don't you want to reboot? That would be my first
recourse.

I am often in the middle of a large download.

Also my reboo titme can be quite slow (4 or 5 minutes)/