Hello,pals!
here's the situation, after having installed nero 8, when I restarted my system, I found some of my system tray icons had gone missing. I dont know what went wrong coz the installation had been successful & its been running fine. is there anyone who can help me get my icons back Pleeeeeeeeeeez!
My key location was slightly different (winxp sp3, full updates): HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify. ...but still worked. Thanks for the help.
Let me take your fix a little further. Your fix works, however the loss of the icons continues intermittently on subsequent bootups.
My fix:
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\Cla sses\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Wi ndows\CurrentVersion \TrayNotify.
4. Delete the values IconStreams and PastIconsStream.
5. Select the directory TrayNotify and rename it to OldTrayNotify.
Now Windows doesn't rebuild the values, IconStreams and PastIconsStream and
doesn't miss the directory. Your tray icons will appear each and every bootup
without failure.
Also running SP3 with full updates, and between Shipmates procedure and Eco's Registry listing, worked like a charm, fixing a very frustrating problem...Many Thanks!!!!
Thanks Kristen. Very helpful. I didn't bother messing with the registry. I just restarted Explorer.exe as you instructed and it worked fine. Maybe when I reboot I'll have the problem again and will have to delete the registry items you suggest but for now it's fine. Thanks again..
Thank you so very much. Your step by step instructions worked like a charm for the frustrated lay person. I lost my icons and tried everything to get them restored after an update was done recently. I stumpled across this posting while searching for a solution online. I am a novice and I was able to do this fix based off these instructions. It worked for me - give it a try, it was easy. Thanks again !!!
Thanks. That worked fine.
One note: I used FIND to locate the TrayNotify, but found that there are two such entries. I made sure that I had the one in
Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify
I found that I had no \Classes\Local Settings\ that is why I used FIND.
Also, Note that the address is slightly different: Explorer between CurrentVersion and TrayNotify.
Sweet, solved it in a jiffy.. A hug and kiss to the person (if female! If male, a handshake and a pat on the back ah what the heck a hug too) who found this solution. Simple and Really Helpful. Thanks a heap!
I guess I have an easy way to bring back the nod32 icon in the system tray. Simply open your task manager, find 'egui.exe', kill the process, then start it again - for instance running 'egui.exe' from the eset nod32 installation folder.
I had this problem, too. After trying so many of the different (and even somewhat complex) solutions to no avail, I found my solution and it was so simple.
When I would right-click on the taskbar and click 'properties', the volume and system icons were greyed out so I couldn't click on them. To fix this, I simply right-clicked in the taskbar area, and unclicked 'lock taskbar'. Then, I was able to go to 'properties' and the volume and system icons were no longer grey so I could click on them.
I'm not sure why they disappeared in the first place, but hopefully this will also work for some of you.
