I keep on getting Error Shell_NotifyIcon Fail. I have no clue. It is driving me nuts. I keep on getting lots of these message boxes one after another. Please help. I am in windows 2000.

I have this exact same problem. I'm running Windows ME and have just installed my scanner which seems to have triggered this off. But this scanner worked fine on Windows98.

The Solution: Look in your TaskManager, under the applications tab, you'll see the "Error" app thats running. Right click on it and click "go to process" This will switch to the process tab, and select the process that's causing this to display. On my system it was VSAccess. Hit "End Process" and the popups will go away. The Cause: An application that displays an icon in the system tray has partially died. The system tray icon is no longer there, and the app does not know it, but it keeps trying to update the icon for some reason. When it fails, it displays the "Shell_NotifyIcon Failed" message.

Thank you all for fixing my week-long headache!!!

I have this same problem as well as an explorer.exe error. My explorer.exe is crashing and giving me errors like "The instruction at (dadada) referenced memory at (dadada). The memory could not be (read/written). When I tried to end VSAccess all of the "Shell_NotifyIcon Failed" went away, but so did my start menu and desktop items. All I can see is my Soundblaster launch bar at the top of my screen. This is killing me please help

I get the same Shell_NotifyIcon Fail message on a newy by Win 200pro computer. It start right after deleting a progam that was installed along with my UMAX Astra4400 scanner driver.

I also have just bought a UMAX Astra4450 Scanner. I think they use the same software as the 4400. Is it possibly that the removal of my scanner has escallated to my explorer.exe errors?