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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!
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  • 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!
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Thanks a lot, Kristen!
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Thank you, Kristen. This tip is still useful in late 2017. I have used it on Windows 7 three or four times in the last few months.
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This worked for me in 2018 on Windows 7! Thank you so much!
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This works!!
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This was the only solution that worked for me after reading through many forums!!! Thank You!
Answer 2 / 5

Restarting Explorer worked for me... Open a DOS box and issue the following commands:

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
explorer.exe
Answer 3 / 5

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.
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perfect,works fine
T.Q. soooooooooo much
Answer 4 / 5

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.
Answer 5 / 5

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.
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