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Erratic System Tray Loading

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  • 23-02-2007 10:39pm
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    zilog_jones
    Registered Users Posts: 6,641 ✭✭✭


    I have a few things that load up in the system tray when Windows starts - IM clients, AVG, volume control crap etc. However, recently it's been going a bit funky and seems to randomly decide what to actually display what's running in the system tray, often missing several icons - the programs are still running however. It's quite annoying when I minimise some program to the tray and it disappears!

    If I kill Explorer and start it again from Task Manager everything that should be there appears as normal.

    Any ideas?

    It's Windows XP SP2 32-bit. Everything's up-to-date. Not sure when this started happening - *could* have been around the time when I put IE7 on it but I'm just guessing here.


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    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    Has it been set up to hide inactive icons?

    Is there a little circle towards the left of it with an arrow pointing to the left?


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    zilog_jones
    Registered Users Posts: 6,641 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    Hell no, I turned that crap off ages ago! :D


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    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users Posts: 8,364 ✭✭✭Gadgetman496


    zilog_jones wrote:
    I have a few things that load up in the system tray when Windows starts - IM clients, AVG, volume control crap etc. However, recently it's been going a bit funky and seems to randomly decide what to actually display what's running in the system tray, often missing several icons - the programs are still running however. It's quite annoying when I minimise some program to the tray and it disappears!

    If I kill Explorer and start it again from Task Manager everything that should be there appears as normal.

    Any ideas?

    It's Windows XP SP2 32-bit. Everything's up-to-date. Not sure when this started happening - *could* have been around the time when I put IE7 on it but I'm just guessing here.

    I've been having exactly same problem for some time now too.
    It has nothing to do with IE7 for sure.
    I think I first encountered it when SP2 came out (not 100% sure though)

    Like you zilog, I kill the problem App form the "Processes" tab in Task Manager & start it again & all is fine.

    Sometimes everything starts fine but as you say it's as erratic as hell.
    I never got a definite solution for it either, but now that you've raised it again someone out there might know for sure why it happens or even have a solution.

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



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