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Icons in System Tray do not appear
I have a Windows XP system that I have been configuring to run as optimised
as possible. This is for an industrial application and the PC has been cloned and the clone will then be installed on multiple machines. I have stopped some services in Control Panel Administrative Tools Services and set "Visual Effects" to "Adjust for best performance" in Control Panel System Advanced Performance and a few other changes. Unfortunately something I've done has caused ALL icons to disappear from the system tray (bottom right, next to the clock). For example, when you run Task Manager, you normally see a box with a green bar showing the CPU usage. This does not appear. Applications all run fine, but the icons never appear. Any idea what might be causing this? Rebooting does not help. Thanks, Alain |
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Icons in System Tray do not appear
"Alain Dekker" wrote in message ... I have a Windows XP system that I have been configuring to run as optimised as possible. This is for an industrial application and the PC has been cloned and the clone will then be installed on multiple machines. I have stopped some services in Control Panel Administrative Tools Services and set "Visual Effects" to "Adjust for best performance" in Control Panel System Advanced Performance and a few other changes. Unfortunately something I've done has caused ALL icons to disappear from the system tray (bottom right, next to the clock). For example, when you run Task Manager, you normally see a box with a green bar showing the CPU usage. This does not appear. Applications all run fine, but the icons never appear. Any idea what might be causing this? Rebooting does not help. Wow Alain! I love to know how you did that! As that would be handy for Windows 2000 systems were you have to show all tray icons. There are utilities that takes care of it though. Anyway what happens if you boot up in safe mode? -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Windows Live Mail 2009 Centrino Core2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz - 1.5GB - Windows 7 SP1 |
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Icons in System Tray do not appear
Alain Dekker wrote:
I have a Windows XP system that I have been configuring to run as optimised as possible. This is for an industrial application and the PC has been cloned and the clone will then be installed on multiple machines. I have stopped some services in Control Panel Administrative Tools Services and set "Visual Effects" to "Adjust for best performance" in Control Panel System Advanced Performance and a few other changes. Unfortunately something I've done has caused ALL icons to disappear from the system tray (bottom right, next to the clock). For example, when you run Task Manager, you normally see a box with a green bar showing the CPU usage. This does not appear. Applications all run fine, but the icons never appear. So are you asking about the complete disappearance of the system notification area (aka system tray) in the Windows taskbar? If so, I recall a registry tweak that eliminates the system tray. http://www.mydigitallife.info/disabl...-xp-and-vista/ Since this is a policies settings, it's also possible your host is in a corporate network and the domain is pushing a policy to hide the system tray. Some of the various settings are mentioned at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/292504 In the group policy editor (gpedit.msc) go to the User Configuration - Administrative Templates - Start Menu and Taskbar tree node. Under there, I suspect it's the "Hide notification area" setting that you have to look at. "All icons to disappear". Does that mean there is no system tray or there is a system tray but you don't see any icons within it? In the latter case, you sure they aren't just hidden because they configured to hide when inactive or to always hide? Is there a chevron on the left side of the system tray (a double less-than character)? If so, what happens when you click on the chevron to expand the system tray? |
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Icons in System Tray do not appear
VanguardLH wrote:
In the group policy editor (gpedit.msc) go to the User Configuration - Administrative Templates - Start Menu and Taskbar tree node. Under there, I suspect it's the "Hide notification area" setting that you have to look at. I get to Administrative Templates but there isn't any Start Menu and Taskbar tree node in my window. I'm running WinXP Pro SP3 with all the updates. Henry |
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Icons in System Tray do not appear
Henry wrote:
VanguardLH wrote: In the group policy editor (gpedit.msc) go to the User Configuration - Administrative Templates - Start Menu and Taskbar tree node. Under there, I suspect it's the "Hide notification area" setting that you have to look at. I get to Administrative Templates but there isn't any Start Menu and Taskbar tree node in my window. I'm running WinXP Pro SP3 with all the updates. Go under the *User Configuration* section, not Computer Configuration. This is a *per-user* setting (so you have to login under every Windows account to change this setting if you want it that way for every account). |
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Icons in System Tray do not appear
Thank you. If I would learn to read I wouldn't have had to bother you.
Henry VanguardLH wrote: Henry wrote: VanguardLH wrote: In the group policy editor (gpedit.msc) go to the User Configuration - Administrative Templates - Start Menu and Taskbar tree node. Under there, I suspect it's the "Hide notification area" setting that you have to look at. I get to Administrative Templates but there isn't any Start Menu and Taskbar tree node in my window. I'm running WinXP Pro SP3 with all the updates. Go under the *User Configuration* section, not Computer Configuration. This is a *per-user* setting (so you have to login under every Windows account to change this setting if you want it that way for every account). |
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