system tray icons

I would like to see all the system tray icons, but even when I uncheck "hide
inactive icons", or check it and customize with "always show", some icons
don't show. I know the programs are running, and need the icons to access
them.

Occasionally when WinXP has a problem, like an explorer window crashing, the
screen will flash and all system tray icons will appear. But that's the only
time.

Thanks for any advice,
John S.

Thanks to Hoppy for forwarding these posts, and to Kelly and Galen for writing
them.

I've tried several of the suggestions, and the one which worked was Kelly's to
kill and restart the explorer.exe process. Apparently this is what was
happening
when I described the screen flashing and all icons appearing in my original
post.
I had one startup process that complained that it couldn't create its icon
until
I hit retry, but eliminating that process didn't help the problem.

However, this isn't something I want to do each time I turn the machine on,
so I'll try some of the other suggestions.

Thanks again,
John S.


"Hoppy" wrote:

> jes91504 wrote on Sat, 2 Dec 2006 01:31:00 -0800:
>
> I would like to see all the system tray icons, but even when I uncheck "hide
> inactive icons", or check it and customize with "always show", some icons
> don't show. I know the programs are running, and need the icons to access
> them.
>
> Occasionally when WinXP has a problem, like an explorer window crashing, the
> screen will flash and all system tray icons will appear. But that's the
> only time.
>
> Thanks for any advice,
> John S.
> --
>
> Hello John -
>
> Here are a few posts/links that helped me solve that problem ... altho' it's
> been so long ago that I don't remember which one(s) worked:
> --------------------
> "Kelly" <kelly.TakeThisOut@mvps.org wrote:
>
> In XP it is called the Notification Area. Which are the icons not
> showing on first boot? In the meantime:
>
> Troubleshooting the Notification Area
> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_n.htm#na
>
> Troubleshooting the Volume Control Icon
> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_v.htm#volume
>
> Taskbar Repair Tool
> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm
> --
> All the Best,
> Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP)
> ---------------------------
> The first thing I'd recommend is a test drive of Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!:
> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm
>
> If that does no good, then I'd consider running your desktop as a separate
> process.
> With some resource intensive AV applications - and this is
> ENTIRELY speculation and observation from the problems - there seems to be
> conflicts during boot time and the result is missing icons in the
> notification area and more than a couple of people have been able to resolve
> it with simply running the two processes separately.
>
> Explorer as a Separate Process:
> http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/tips/sep_explorer.html
>
> Of course, before you do that, why not go to the properties and tick the box
> to hide the unused items in the taskbar, click apply, reboot, and then tick
> it back the way it was. (So if you had them hidden they'd then be unhidden
> and if they weren't hidden before they won't be when you finish the
> process.) Sometimes that's been known to kick the bugger in the whosits and
> make it work. <g
> --
> Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
> http://dts-l.org/
> http://kgiii.info/
> ------------------------------------
> And finally:
> http://www.tech-pro.net/howto_013.html
>
> HTH
> --
> Hoppy
> General.Disarray.TakeThisOut@Unrealized.Reality.com
> ~~
>
>
>