Well, that's interesting.
Do you use TweakUI? I don't use an XP logon password either and have
TweakUI automatically sign on to avoid the whole logon scenario. You can
also use TweakUI to get rid of the "Logoff" option on your Start menu.
There's tons of other tweaks available that you might find useful. There is
also a 'Rebuild Icon Cache' option that -- who knows -- may help. It's
available thru MS.
Maybe you should try disabling the ATNotes program for a while or
re-installing it. I remember having some kind of problem with that so I
uninstalled it.
The more I think about it, I relate my icon problem with my firewall,
Outpost Pro. Its icon was one that would not appear when I was experiencing
your problem. It seems to me that my problem disappeared after updating
Outpost. Go figure.
(BTW - are you hitting at the end of every line of your posts? If
so, it's causing unusual breaks in your text instead of wrapping normally.
If not, I guess it's just my news reader.)
--
Hoppy
jes91504 wrote on Fri, 8 Dec 2006 10:23:05 -0800:
>Yes, I did try that (after my previous reply), and it didn't change
>anything. The process that has trouble creating its icon until I
>hit retry is a reminder program called ATnotes. Disabling its
>auto startup doesn't seem to have an effect.
>Also I found that if I log out and back in, I can see all the icons.
>This is a single-user machine, so I never log in/out, and don't
>even have a password assigned, but just shut down at night.
>Perhaps having it start up into login mode will work,
>though I don't know how to configure that off the top of my head.
>Thanks again,
>John S.
>"Hoppy" wrote:
>> Hi John -
>> Did you try the hack to run explorer as a separate process?
>> Which startup process balked about creating its icon?
>> Hoppy
>> ~~
>> jes91504 wrote on Tue, 5 Dec 2006 08:19:01 -0800:
>>>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:
>>>> 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
>>>> 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.
>>>> 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
