How to recover lost/missing system tray icon?Solved/Closed

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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!System Configuration: Windows XP sp3
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kristen · Accepted Answer

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 and PastIconsStream. 
 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!

inside19 · Answer

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.

CLa · Answer

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.

dbcole · Answer

Restarting Explorer worked for me... Open a DOS box and issue the following commands:

    taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
    explorer.exe

mabuk · Answer

Use the microsoft fixit prog:


https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/945011/system-icons-do-not-appear-in-the-notification-area-in-windows-vista-o

Just run it and restart your computer.

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