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Bryan
Well, there are HUNDREDS of complaints about this one
BBSes all over the world and in most every language
(check out Google). But Microsoft seems to be missing out
on hearing them. Hopefully this post will fix that
On most, ney ALL, XP installs I have encountered (a fair
few) with more than three or four programs loading from
Start_Menu/Program_Files/Startup OR Registry/HKLM/.../Run
RANDOM SYSTRAY ICONS DO NOT APPEAR
Logging off and back on seems to fix the problem.
NOTE: ALL the programs in question ARE runnig - it's just
their icons in the systray that don't appear. They're not
just invisible - they're not there at all.
This affects both Microsoft components (EG. sndvol32.exe
and the 'PNP Safe Removal Tool') AND 3rd Party componets
(EG. ZoneAlarm, GetRight, Norton Anti-Virus etc).
The "randomness" would appear to have something to do
with the multi-threaded / asychronous nature in which
user.exe loads.
[The same is now true of the Rules-Wizard in MS Outlook.
Mail downloading is now multi-threaded and guess what?!
On systems with multiple mail accounts, random messages
are not rule-processed until you run all rules manually
again. But that's a whole other story...]
It astounds me that the knowledge base knows nothing of
this yet. I guess everyone was waiting for everyone else
to report it? (Don't people inside Microsoft use
Windows XP and Outlook XP yet? <awkward_grin>)
Bryan,
NZ.
BBSes all over the world and in most every language
(check out Google). But Microsoft seems to be missing out
on hearing them. Hopefully this post will fix that
On most, ney ALL, XP installs I have encountered (a fair
few) with more than three or four programs loading from
Start_Menu/Program_Files/Startup OR Registry/HKLM/.../Run
RANDOM SYSTRAY ICONS DO NOT APPEAR
Logging off and back on seems to fix the problem.
NOTE: ALL the programs in question ARE runnig - it's just
their icons in the systray that don't appear. They're not
just invisible - they're not there at all.
This affects both Microsoft components (EG. sndvol32.exe
and the 'PNP Safe Removal Tool') AND 3rd Party componets
(EG. ZoneAlarm, GetRight, Norton Anti-Virus etc).
The "randomness" would appear to have something to do
with the multi-threaded / asychronous nature in which
user.exe loads.
[The same is now true of the Rules-Wizard in MS Outlook.
Mail downloading is now multi-threaded and guess what?!
On systems with multiple mail accounts, random messages
are not rule-processed until you run all rules manually
again. But that's a whole other story...]
It astounds me that the knowledge base knows nothing of
this yet. I guess everyone was waiting for everyone else
to report it?
(Don't people inside Microsoft useWindows XP and Outlook XP yet? <awkward_grin>)
Bryan,
NZ.