startup programs not starting

[Nancy]

When I reboot, suddenly a lot of my startup programs aren't starting up. And
the "hide inactive icons" feature isn't working, either. I can manually
start the programs, but they don't show up in the taskbar notification area.
Now, I *can* go to the 'sounds' section of the control panel and turn the
speaker icon 'off', then hit apply, and turn it on again, and it appears.
But it won't appear when I start the computer.

Anyone know what the problem is?

thanks
nancyeddy

 

[thecreator]

Hi Nancy,

Which Anti-Virus Program and version is installed?

Start Services and make the following changes:

Plug and Play Set to Manual
SSDP Discovery Service Set to Manual
Universal Plug and Play Device Host Set to Manual


Services settings for McAfee Services to display Startup Icons in notification area during Boots and reboots.

McAfee E-mail Proxy Set to Manual
McAfee HackerWatch Service Set to Automatic
McAfee Log Manager Set to Automatic
McAfee Network Agent Set to Disabled
McAfee Personal Firewall Service Set to Automatic
McAfee Protection Manager Set to Manual
McAfee Real-time Scanner Set to Automatic
McAfee Redirector Service Set to Disabled
McAfee Scanner Set to Manual
McAfee SystemGuards Set to Manual
McAfee Task Scheduler Set to Automatic
McAfee Update Manager Set to Automatic
McAfee User Manager Set to Manual

13 Services in all with VirusScan 11, Personal Firewall 8 and the new McAfee Security Center installed.

 

[WTC]

When I reboot, suddenly a lot of my startup programs aren't starting up.
And the "hide inactive icons" feature isn't working, either. I can
manually start the programs, but they don't show up in the taskbar
notification area. Now, I *can* go to the 'sounds' section of the control
panel and turn the speaker icon 'off', then hit apply, and turn it on
again, and it appears. But it won't appear when I start the computer.

Anyone know what the problem is?

Known issue, the programs are probably starting up but the icons in the
notification area are not appearing. Just log off then log on and this
should bring back the icons in the Notification Area.

Take a look at this article from Kelly's Korner
Scroll down to Notification Area
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_n.htm

 

[Nancy]

Thanks, that worked. But it seems a little aggravating to have to do that.

nancyeddy

 

[WTC]

You're welcome Nancy. Sorry for the aggravation. You should try NOT
automatically logging into your account which may help the situation.

--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

Thanks, that worked. But it seems a little aggravating to have to do that.

nancyeddy