How to recover lost/missing system tray icon?
Solved/Closed5 responses
- 1. Back up the Registry by creating a restore point.
- 2. Go to Start > Run (or Windows-key + R), type in
regedit
and hit OK. - 3. Navigate to the key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify
. - 4. Delete the values named
IconStreams
andPastIconsStream
. - 5. Open up the Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc), go to the Processes tab, select explorer.exe and click End Process.
- 6. Open the Applications tab and click New Task at the bottom-right of the window.
- 7. In the message box that pops up type in explorer.exe and hit OK.
- 8. Explorer.exe will reload, and the missing icons should now be back in the system-tray where they belong.
- 9. Then if the volume bar isn't there, go to taskbar properties (where the volume was gray) and simply tick the box.
This should work, did for me!
Jun 4, 2009 at 01:11 PM
Jun 16, 2009 at 03:08 PM