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System Tray Icons
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Original Message
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Name: Phil
Date: July 21, 2002 at 11:15:38 Pacific
Subject: System Tray Icons |
Comment: Hi Guys, Just a quick question, what could be causing this.
Every once in a while (not very often)when I close an application (any application) all my desktop icons and task bar dissappear and my screen is just left with the desktop background, then about 10 seconds later all the icons come back and the taskbar comes back like nothing had happened. The only difference is that all my system tray icons (background progs) have gone and I am just left with the volume control icon and thats it. It takes a restart to reload them then it will be fine again. Weird weird weird weird!!! What could be causing this? Any ideas chaps? Thanks Phil Celeron 1ghz - 128mb RAM - 20gb HD - XP Home
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Response Number 1
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Name: Chuck
Date: July 21, 2002 at 11:25:00 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I am no expert, but: You should have more RAM.
128 is min for XP. System Tray Icons hide when Inactive. Right click Taskbar,
then Properties,
then Customize button.
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Response Number 2
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Name: sandman
Date: July 21, 2002 at 11:55:41 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Windows (explorer.exe) is crashing and thats what causing the taskbar and icon to disappear. If you relaunch the apps that are supposed to be in the system tray do they come back?
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Response Number 3
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Name: TekJoe
Date: July 21, 2002 at 12:10:33 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)That is exactly what is happening Explorer is crashing....very gently. And running XP PRO, I suggest 256 atleast. Overall I added another stick (128) and all is well, but I know excatly what your talking bout. And I agree with SandMan, do your icons come back after the toolbar loads back up? They should....but do they for you?
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Response Number 5
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Name: Phil
Date: July 21, 2002 at 12:20:17 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Oh, and it is not showing as a system hang in event viewer? just thought I would mention it. Cheers Chaps! Phil
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Response Number 6
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Name: DAVE
Date: July 21, 2002 at 13:12:35 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)i know, it doesnt show the event if it hasnt registered as 'not responding' yet. if IE is not responding, but windows hasnt realized it yet, and you close IE, it still closes explorer, resulting in all the taskbar icons disappearing :\
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Response Number 8
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Name: php
Date: July 21, 2002 at 21:49:55 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)you don't need to restart - simply hit STRG-ALT-DEL, choose file>new task, type explorer, explorer should restart then.
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