Re: System Tray Icon Holidays

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From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 06/06/04 

Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 16:43:25 +0100

satingoth wrote:

>Tried that, resetting system defaults, and still nothing.
>However I have found that if I load that programs
>manually, instead of loading at startup, the icons do
>appear in the system tray.

There appears to be something about that can obstruct the icon getting
into the tray when the program gets loaded automatically at boot.
Getting it there is initiated by the program, so once that is running
(as it thinks happily) refreshing explorer is the opposite of a cure -
it can cause ones that are present to become lost. I am currently
getting the behaviour on one system, and not on another otherwise
identical one with a different build of Windows and (and I suspect
this) a different third party firewall loading. 

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)

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