Help! No active process icons appearing on taskbar

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Wendie Luter

Help! No active process icons appearing on taskbar

Just above the clock, my old XPSP2 would have the icons for my
anti-virus program, net connections, volume adjustments, so on. I
installed a new edition of WinXP-SP2 Office Pro, now no icons!

Can someone tell me how to turn them on?

Thank you
 
See if disabling the SSDP Discovery Service and Universal Plug and Play Device Host service help. For more information, check the following articles.

How To: Fix Missing System Tray Icons at Windows XP startup:
http://www.tech-pro.net/howto_013.html

When you restart the computer, the icons in the notification area are missing
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=841571

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Help! No active process icons appearing on taskbar

Just above the clock, my old XPSP2 would have the icons for my
anti-virus program, net connections, volume adjustments, so on. I
installed a new edition of WinXP-SP2 Office Pro, now no icons!

Can someone tell me how to turn them on?

Thank you
 
Help! No active process icons appearing on taskbar

Just above the clock, my old XPSP2 would have the icons for my
anti-virus program, net connections, volume adjustments, so on. I
installed a new edition of WinXP-SP2 Office Pro, now no icons!

Can someone tell me how to turn them on?

Thank you
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SOLVED!

Well, I guess my fatigue from work and family demands sapped my brain.
Late Thursday night I unintentionally turned off "Show taskbar
notification icons" using MS's TweakUI PowerToy.

TweakUI overode this option so it was greyed out in control panel.
This is why I couldn't turn them using the taskbar options in control
panel.

Thanks to all who wrote!

Wendie
 
Thanks for the update!

Related links

"Hide inactive icons" is greyed out in Taskbar Properties:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/traynotify.htm

NoTrayItemsDisplay:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windo...aec8-46db-9a49-989889dc28c71033.mspx?mfr=true

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Help! No active process icons appearing on taskbar

Just above the clock, my old XPSP2 would have the icons for my
anti-virus program, net connections, volume adjustments, so on. I
installed a new edition of WinXP-SP2 Office Pro, now no icons!

Can someone tell me how to turn them on?

Thank you
Click to expand...

SOLVED!

Well, I guess my fatigue from work and family demands sapped my brain.
Late Thursday night I unintentionally turned off "Show taskbar
notification icons" using MS's TweakUI PowerToy.

TweakUI overode this option so it was greyed out in control panel.
This is why I couldn't turn them using the taskbar options in control
panel.

Thanks to all who wrote!

Wendie
 
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