Re: Sys Tray half empty

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I'm not sure if you're asking a question or just answering one. The autohide
still should have programs behind the arrow. Sometimes, there are missing
programs from both visible and not visible on the systray even though they
are visible in taskmanager, such as Syncback.exe.

I don't get the diff between hard shutoff and turn off with the power
switch. Sounds the same to me. Sometimes I do that when there are no "open"
programs.

"JW" wrote:

I think the important thng it to do either a hardshut off or a restart
instead of just turning off the system with the power switch.
If they say "hide when inactive" are you implying that some process that
start automatically on reboot and which you know are running are not showing
in the systray? If yes what are some examples of such processs.
Also, some process such as Microsoft Outlook for example only cause an icon
to be displayed in the systray on booting if Outlook is set to automatically
start and there is unread mail in your intray. so apparetly a process can
also control when thier Icon is displayed or not displayed based on its own
am I active critera and not just being "active" in the operating systems
system process list.
"sussertown" <sussertown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Some of the icons are in Past Items. They all say Hide when inactive, but
there is not much behind the systray arrow. I do sometimes do a hard
shutoff,
but I didn't used to do this and I don't think there was any differenc.
I'll
try to be more aware and see what happens although I pretty sure nothing
will
change.

"JW" wrote:

When you right click the Systray and select Customize Notifications do
all
of the options appear correctly or do they also change between reboots
from
a power off condition?
Do yu always uss shutdown and off to turrn off your system so it will
shut
down all processes properly?

Do you always use shutdown and Off to turn off your system?
"sussertown" <sussertown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have had an interesting problem on this pc. Every other boot, the
systray
appears to be half empty even though the programs may be running. I
installed
a new motherboard and processor and the problem continues.






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