Taskbar Icons Disappearing
- From: "SP Goodman" <earthlight2k@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 20:16:57 +0100
Just installed XP w/SP2 from scratch.
Right after installing this week's Windows Critical Updates (6 of em), the
icons on the right side of the taskbar reduced in number drastically.
Before:
Fix-It 5, Messenger, HP 6800 printer, TabletWorks driver, Spybot S&D
Protection, MS Anti-Spyware, Volume Control. (I tell ya it was like the
stickers on the front of a race car)
After:
Fix-It 5, Messenger, TabletWorks driver - though the Messenger comes and
goes.
Beforehand the Hide Icons on the above were working. Now you can't even add
a Volume Control to the taskbar, and it was checked off to appear already
anyhow.
The most ominous is of course the Spybot and MSAS icons going missing. I
still get the Spybot protector messages, but not the MSAS. I'm on the verge
of doing a full data backup, saying the heck with the work genning this PC,
and doing another scratch install.
I uninstalled and removed the folders for both Spybot and MSAS, rebooted,
and reinstalled both apps. The icons reappeared until next bootup, at which
point it's back to the "After" above.
A number of items on this newsgroup and others have made me wonder if some
kind of attack isn't in progress, taking as much protection software offline
as possible, before hitting with all it's got. Thus my questions first,
lest repeating the scratch install is just a waste of time. Help! Thanks.
Stephen Goodman
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