Systray icons disappear after explorer.exe crashes

[cerppo]

Hi,
I was wondering if anybody knows a reason and/or a fix for
this quite annoying little problem.

When explorer.exe crashes and you restart it from Task
Manager (New Task...) the desktop reappears correctly but
some of the icons in Systray remain invisible. You need to
kill the applications process and then restart it if you
want to get your Systray icons back. This problem doesn't
concern every application just some of them. I won't list
the applications here 'cause I'm pretty sure everyone has
encountered this problem at least once and there are
probably lots of applications that behave this way.

I'm wondering if this is a bug in Windows 2000 or a bug in
the applications that behave this way?

If anybody has any clue on the subject I'd be very
interested to hear about them.

Thanks in advance.

Cerppo

 

[Wouter]

Hi,
I was wondering if anybody knows a reason and/or a fix for
this quite annoying little problem.

When explorer.exe crashes and you restart it from Task
Manager (New Task...) the desktop reappears correctly but
some of the icons in Systray remain invisible. You need to
kill the applications process and then restart it if you
want to get your Systray icons back. This problem doesn't
concern every application just some of them. I won't list
the applications here 'cause I'm pretty sure everyone has
encountered this problem at least once and there are
probably lots of applications that behave this way.

I'm wondering if this is a bug in Windows 2000 or a bug in
the applications that behave this way?

If anybody has any clue on the subject I'd be very
interested to hear about them.

Thanks in advance.

Cerppo

I know this is as Windows 2000 (and NT) does its work.
Usually Explorer starts first, then the several applications put
their icons in the tray.
If Explorer crashes, the icons are gone (the applications behind
the icons are still running).
The method I use to recover the tray is to logoff and logon
again.