system tray icons and app mismatch

[King Coffee]

Hi,
My OS is Windows XP Pro. and my problem is: The icons on the system tray
(low right hand corner of the desktop) are not showing up when an
application that supports tray icons is active, even if the behavior is set
to always active in the property sheet of the Taskbar control. In fact, the
operating system slowly change, or loose the original icons. In most cases
the taskbar properties dialog box show the bad icons as small folders. The
programs in question are loaded in memory and work fine. The problem is that
I don't get notification of important data exchange and activities.

Can you please help me?

King

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Hi King,

Try this.

Clear Past Items from the Notification Area
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=283084

See also:

"When you restart the computer, the icons in the notification area are missing"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=841571

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Hi,
My OS is Windows XP Pro. and my problem is: The icons on the system tray
(low right hand corner of the desktop) are not showing up when an
application that supports tray icons is active, even if the behavior is set
to always active in the property sheet of the Taskbar control. In fact, the
operating system slowly change, or loose the original icons. In most cases
the taskbar properties dialog box show the bad icons as small folders. The
programs in question are loaded in memory and work fine. The problem is that
I don't get notification of important data exchange and activities.

Can you please help me?

King