Windows XP System Tray Bug

[plumpickerpurplepaws]

Windows XP has a bug in the system tray. Right-clicking on some icons
in the system tray causes the icon's context menu to appear (as
expected), but also the taskbar's context menu appears.

After you struggle to get rid of the clutter of menus, you are
sometimes left with a little white block over the taskbar where the
screen isn't refreshing. Right-clicking on the desktop and selecting
Refresh does not refresh the screen. The only way to refresh the
screen is to run cmd and hitting Alt-Enter to fill the screen and
typing EXIT.

This bug must have been introduced by some patch along the way,
because it never used to happen.

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

This bug must have been introduced by some patch along the way,
because it never used to happen.

Upgrade to Vista.

Bug reports are likely to get more attention there.

 

[Guest]

I may update just for that reason, people like you are here in xp! Grumpy,
why try to help, when you can't! (Your responses are rude!)

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

(Your responses are rude!)

REALLY??

hmmmmm......

 

[Guest]

Reallyl! Hmmmm!
--
Robyn

REALLY??

hmmmmm......

 

[Rock]

Windows XP has a bug in the system tray. Right-clicking on some icons
in the system tray causes the icon's context menu to appear (as
expected), but also the taskbar's context menu appears.

After you struggle to get rid of the clutter of menus, you are
sometimes left with a little white block over the taskbar where the
screen isn't refreshing. Right-clicking on the desktop and selecting
Refresh does not refresh the screen. The only way to refresh the
screen is to run cmd and hitting Alt-Enter to fill the screen and
typing EXIT.

This bug must have been introduced by some patch along the way,
because it never used to happen.

It's more likely it happens because a problem has developed with the
installation on your system. I haven't seen this reported as a general
problem.

 

[Guest]

I've been seeing this recently as well. I attributed it to all the Google
stuff I'd installed, specifically Google Desktop which installs a side bar
thing that I turned off. I also recently reformatted & see it again after the
reformat (with Google stuff installed). It's annoying but I haven't started
to try to resolve it yet--I'm guessing its something with the Google stuff.

 

[S0lidAcid]

I've been seeing this recently as well. I attributed it to all the Google
stuff I'd installed, specifically Google Desktop which installs a side bar
thing that I turned off. I also recently reformatted & see it again after the
reformat (with Google stuff installed). It's annoying but I haven't started
to try to resolve it yet--I'm guessing its something with the Google stuff.







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I also am having the same problem. i only have the gmail notifier
installed, but even when it is uninstalled and I right click on my
virus scan menu I get both that menu and the taskbar context -
sometimes they even overlap. Any one make on progress with this?

 

[Nightowl]

I also am having the same problem. i only have the gmail notifier
installed, but even when it is uninstalled and I right click on my
virus scan menu I get both that menu and the taskbar context -
sometimes they even overlap. Any one make on progress with this?

Hi

I don't know what's causing this, but in the meantime you could try this
to see if the taskbar menu still interferes:

Press Windows key + B to give focus to the first (leftmost) icon in the
tray. You should see a dotted rectangle around it. Use the right arrow
key to move through the icons until you arrive at the one you want.
Press the Context Menu key or Shift+F10 to get the menu.

Hope this helps