System Tray Icons missing

[Guest]

Hi

I recently upgraded my system from Windows ME to Windows XP. Upgrade went fairly smoothly. I had some problems with some apps and I had to fix up the Administrative Tasks not displaying - all in all, as I said, fairly painless. The only residual issue I have seems to be that even though I have programs set to start up at startup and those programs DO start, the system tray icons do not appear. I have verified the programs are indeed running but they should have an icon in the system tray. Which icons are missing are sometimes arbitrary but it is usually the same ones. I do not have any hidden icons and the system tray is unlocked. I have viewed the knowledge base for any suggestions and the very few related articles do not apply to my situation

Anyone else experiencing this and if so, does anyone have a fix for it?

 

[S.Sengupta]

Hi,
see:-
'Why don't my Notification Area icons show or why do they disappear?'
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/top10faqs.htm
regards,
ssg MS-MVP
pronetworks.org

 

[Kelly]

Hi Neal,

Very common issue within XP. Workarounds listed here:

Troubleshooting the Notification Area
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_n.htm#na

Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm

Hi:

I recently upgraded my system from Windows ME to Windows XP. Upgrade went

fairly smoothly. I had some problems with some apps and I had to fix up the
Administrative Tasks not displaying - all in all, as I said, fairly
painless. The only residual issue I have seems to be that even though I have
programs set to start up at startup and those programs DO start, the system
tray icons do not appear. I have verified the programs are indeed running
but they should have an icon in the system tray. Which icons are missing are
sometimes arbitrary but it is usually the same ones. I do not have any
hidden icons and the system tray is unlocked. I have viewed the knowledge
base for any suggestions and the very few related articles do not apply to
my situation.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, I will give it a try

 

[Guest]

Disabling SSDP Discovery Service and Universal Plug and Play Device Host Services seems to have resolved the problem. Thank you

 

[Kelly]

Great, glad to hear you have it worked out. Thanks for the feedback.

Disabling SSDP Discovery Service and Universal Plug and Play Device Host

Services seems to have resolved the problem. Thank you

 

[Oliver Costich]

Disabling SSDP Discovery Service and Universal Plug and Play Device Host Services seems to have resolved the problem. Thank you

How do you do this?

 

[Guest]

Disabling "SSDP Discovery Service" and "Universal Plug and Play Device Host" has worked for me so far after two successful reboots. I went to-- start/run --then typed-- msconfig --once the "System Configuration Utility" opened, I clicked the "services" tab and unchecked "SSDP Discovery Service" and "Universal Plug and Play Device Host."