>Thanks to Hoppy for forwarding these posts, and to Kelly and Galen for
>writing them.

>I've tried several of the suggestions, and the one which worked was
>Kelly's to kill and restart the explorer.exe process. Apparently this
>is what was happening when I described the screen flashing and
>all icons appearing in my original post.
>I had one startup process that complained that it couldn't create its
>icon until I hit retry, but eliminating that process didn't help the
>problem.

>However, this isn't something I want to do each time I turn the machine
>on, so I'll try some of the other suggestions.

>Thanks again,
>John S.

>"Hoppy" wrote:

>> jes91504 wrote on Sat, 2 Dec 2006 01:31:00 -0800:

>> I would like to see all the system tray icons, but even when I uncheck
>> "hide inactive icons", or check it and customize with "always show",
>> some icons don't show. I know the programs are running, and need
>> the icons to access them.

>> Occasionally when WinXP has a problem, like an explorer window
>> crashing, the screen will flash and all system tray icons will appear.
>> But that's the only time.

>> Thanks for any advice,
>> John S.
>> --

>> Hello John -

>> Here are a few posts/links that helped me solve that problem ...
>> altho' it's
>> been so long ago that I don't remember which one(s) worked:
>> --------------------
>> "Kelly" mvps.org wrote:

>> In XP it is called the Notification Area. Which are the icons not
>> showing on first boot? In the meantime:

>> Troubleshooting the Notification Area
>> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_n.htm#na

>> Troubleshooting the Volume Control Icon
>> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_v.htm#volume

>> Taskbar Repair Tool
>> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm
>> --
>> All the Best,
>> Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP)
>> ---------------------------
>> The first thing I'd recommend is a test drive of Taskbar Repair Tool
>> Plus!:
>> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm

>> If that does no good, then I'd consider running your desktop as a
>> separate
>> process.
>> With some resource intensive AV applications - and this is
>> ENTIRELY speculation and observation from the problems - there seems
>> to be
>> conflicts during boot time and the result is missing icons in the
>> notification area and more than a couple of people have been able to
>> resolve
>> it with simply running the two processes separately.

>> Explorer as a Separate Process:
>> http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/tips/sep_explorer.html

>> Of course, before you do that, why not go to the properties and tick
>> the box
>> to hide the unused items in the taskbar, click apply, reboot, and then
>> tick
>> it back the way it was. (So if you had them hidden they'd then be
>> unhidden
>> and if they weren't hidden before they won't be when you finish the
>> process.) Sometimes that's been known to kick the bugger in the
>> whosits and
>> make it work. >> --
>> Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
>> http://dts-l.org/
>> http://kgiii.info/
>> ------------------------------------
>> And finally:
>> http://www.tech-pro.net/howto_013.html

>> HTH
>> --
>> Hoppy
>> General.Disarray@Unrealized.Reality.com
>> ~~