system tray notification icons

[closterphilia]

I posted about this in another forum, before I remembered I could ask you guys. What might be causing the icons in the system tray to be missing? Is there any setting in Process Explorer that might cause that? This is an older XP computer and may be having some issue with slowness, but it's really a pain.

[SloppyGoat]

Not that I know of. I use Process Explorer, and it only has settings for its own tray icon. Are the processes that are missing actually running when they're missing? Is it overclocked or anything? I've had icons come up missing on OC'd machines before. (Usually when they're OC'd too much)

[TxTazDad]

right click the start button, go to properties, "taskbar" tab put a check mark nest to "show quick launch"

I think this is what you're talking about.

[digitalocksmith]

System tray icon issues can be caused by a few things including the presence of Malware which may be a possibility if you are experiencing painful system slowness.

To many apps configured to run at start up and continue in the background can also be a cause of bogging down the whole show.

Another cause of the more common problems that you seem to be experiencing with taskbar icons is due to the fact that the systray program is temporarily unable to process icon inclusion requests.
In other words, because of so much configured to run on start up, systray.exe is loaded too late and fails to display.

Take a look here: http://winhlp.com/node/16

Have you run system scans with your AV and been given the all clear?

[closterphilia]

Hi digitalocksmith,
That website is totally interesting! I enjoyed it very much and am now in the process of trying to figure out if any of those solutions will work. The one thing I'm not sure about is that in that site, there's a link to another site with some registry fixes. At that site there are some links you can click on that end with .reg and I don't know if those are direct registry patches that run straight from the website, or if they are downloaded before they are run. I like to look at the coding first to see what the .reg files are actually doing and I was not sure whether to click on those. In the meantime, I'm looking at the thing I keep reading about, that the system tray icons don't load because of a problem in the startup sequence. I'll see if that helps.

Thanks so much for sharing that information. I really liked that site.