missing safely remove hardware icon (and others)

[Eddie Biggs]

G'day
I have a Toshida notebook running XPSP2. Lately the icons at the bottom
right have gone haywaire and the settings I had are not reflected by what
comes up. Of particular worry is having no safely remove hardware icon as I
regularly use a usb thumb drive and D-link airplus DWL-650+ wireless card. I
have viewed a number of posts on the subject and tried the suggestions to no
avail. If I cutomise the icons the icons under past items, where the safely
remove is currently, mostly do not have their particular picture/icon but
have the windows folder tpye - I dont know if this is material to the
problem. I have tried option of always display and hide when inactive and
niether works. I am currenly having to unsafely remove these items and it is
a bit of a worry. Any suggestions? Thank you
Eddie

[Haggis]

"Eddie Biggs" > wrote in message
...
> G'day
> I have a Toshida notebook running XPSP2. Lately the icons at the bottom
> right have gone haywaire and the settings I had are not reflected by what
> comes up. Of particular worry is having no safely remove hardware icon as
> I
> regularly use a usb thumb drive and D-link airplus DWL-650+ wireless card.
> I
> have viewed a number of posts on the subject and tried the suggestions to
> no
> avail. If I cutomise the icons the icons under past items, where the
> safely
> remove is currently, mostly do not have their particular picture/icon but
> have the windows folder tpye - I dont know if this is material to the
> problem. I have tried option of always display and hide when inactive and
> niether works. I am currenly having to unsafely remove these items and it
> is
> a bit of a worry. Any suggestions? Thank you
> Eddie

have you tried downloading tweakui and doing "rebuild icons" ?

[Alex Nichol]

Eddie Biggs wrote:

>I have a Toshida notebook running XPSP2. Lately the icons at the bottom
>right have gone haywaire and the settings I had are not reflected by what
>comes up. Of particular worry is having no safely remove hardware icon as I
>regularly use a usb thumb drive and D-link airplus DWL-650+ wireless card.

I suggest Kelly's site www.kellys-korner-xp click Utilities, and use the
Task Bar Toolkit Plus, top left, to repair notification area


--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)

[Eddie Biggs]

Thanks guys, the different icons was not fixed by your suggestions, but at
least I retrieved ym remove hardware one - thank you for your help
R, E

"Alex Nichol" wrote:

> Eddie Biggs wrote:
>
> >I have a Toshida notebook running XPSP2. Lately the icons at the bottom
> >right have gone haywaire and the settings I had are not reflected by what
> >comes up. Of particular worry is having no safely remove hardware icon as I
> >regularly use a usb thumb drive and D-link airplus DWL-650+ wireless card.
>
> I suggest Kelly's site www.kellys-korner-xp click Utilities, and use the
> Task Bar Toolkit Plus, top left, to repair notification area
>
>
> --
> Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
> Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)
>