If you watch during bootup as the desktop first appears, do you see some of the tray icons appear, then the desktop go blank, and when the desktop re-appears the icons are missing?
If you said yes: Something is causing Explorer to crash. The first instance of Explorer in Windows, a.k.a. "the shell", is responsible for the Start Menu, taskbar, tray, and desktop. It restarts automatically but not all tray icons are restored on restart, because the programs that create those tray icons aren't aware that Explorer crashed and only create their tray icon when first starting up. To diagnose it, I'd disable things that autostart. In the process you may find malware on your computer. Get Autoruns from www.sysinternals.com. After it initializes click Options and choose "verify code signatures" and "hide signed Microsoft entries", then press F5 to rescan and only show the most suspicious items. Now, un-check everything you don't recognize, and reboot. If that doesn't help, un-check everything (this will naturally eliminate some tray icons). Watch for things that you disable to re-appear or re-enable - if you see that, it's malware and you need to do a comprehensive scan for viruses, trojans, adware, and spyware. If you had to un-check everything and now don't have some icons that should be there even after re-login, go back into Autoruns and re-enable just one of the programs responsible for a missing tray icon. See if its tray icon sticks around after booting. If it does, then go to the next thing and re-enable that. Do only one at a time. And, even if you didn't say yes above, you might still try the above troubleshooting suggestion. Carl -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thom Trezza Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 7:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: SOFT: System Tray Icons I'm running XP/SP2 Home Edition. A few weeks ago, the icons in the system tray disappeared! At boot, only some of the icons for programs such as M'Soft Anti- Spyware or HP Print Monitor,would show up. Looking at processes in Task manager, I could see that they were running, and everything seemed to be working, but no icons. If I logged off and on again, the icons would return to normal. Any ideas? Thom -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
