System Tray

[Jim Gaughran]

Does anyone have any idea why some icons would stop appearing in the system
tray even though the "show in system tray" box is checked in the preferences
section of the program? About 80% of the icons just stopped showing in the
tray. They also disappeared from the "customize notifications" section
under task bar properties. I'm running Windows XP SP2. Thanks for any
help.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Try disabling the SSDP Discovery Service and the Universal Plug and Play
Device Host service.

Notification area icons are missing at startup
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/trayicons.htm

How To: Fix Missing System Tray Icons at Windows XP startup
http://www.tech-pro.net/howto_013.html

Your pointer changes to an hourglass when you hold it over the taskbar for a
few minutes after starting your Windows XP-based computer
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=841571

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Steven L.]

Does anyone have any idea why some icons would stop appearing in the system
tray even though the "show in system tray" box is checked in the preferences
section of the program? About 80% of the icons just stopped showing in the
tray.

This happens to me sometimes too. Sometimes there's a glitch in Windows
XP; all of a sudden the screen blanks out, and then after recovery from
that, that requires the applications to redisplay themselves. Some
applications aren't smart enough to redisplay their icons in the system
tray when such an event occurs. Older versions of Earthlink used to
just disappear from the system tray all the time.