Yes, I use TweakUI, and autologin is not enabled. But I found on one of
Kelly's pages (
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_wel_screen.htm) that with
only one user and no password, XP automatically skips the welcome screen and
logs in.
An old screen shot I have shows all the icons, so evidently it's something I
installed. If I get some extra time, I might try disabling all the startup
processes (in a binary search fashion) to figure out which is causing the
problem. (I did disable ATnotes for a few days, but that didn't help.) In
the meantime, I know by killing and restarting explorer.exe (or by logging
out/in, which terminates the applications), that I can get all the icons back.
Thanks again,
John S.
"Hoppy" wrote:
> 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>
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