Notification Area Problems and Newsgroups

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Jeff

Two quick questions,

Question 1:
The icons in my notification area disappear. There is no
happy little arrow to make them show anymore either. I
have gone into the "Customize Notifications" and turned on
various icons to "Always Show" and they don't. I have
tried turning off "Hide inactive icons", and they still
don't appear. I have tried fiddling with everything
associated with setting icons on the taskbar with no
avail. The volume control doesn't show, even after I have
gone into the control panel, Sound and audio and selected
the check box to "Place volume icon in the taskbar". I've
downloaded every windows update... and looked and looked
for answers to this problem. All that shows up in the
Notification area is MSN Messenger and the time. Help,
this is really annoying.

Question 2:
How do you can I view the Microsoft newsgroups from
Outlook Express? I hate IE based newsgroups. I need the
server address and any other settings that might be weird.

Thanks in advance,

Jeff
 
Well, I wanted to auto-login, but I guess that's not a bug free working
feature in XP yet. Also, will disabling UPnP (universal plug and play)
affect my system functionality in any way? I don't auto-login and use UPnP
anymore and everything seems to work fine now.

Also, thanks for the link to configure Outlook to see the newsgroups.

Jeff
 
You can auto-login but just password protect your account. Then auto-login
through the following method:

Type CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2 at Start>Run.. In the user accounts dialog box
that comes up next, uncheck "Users must enter a username and password to use
this computer". Hit apply and provide the username and password information
in the next dialog box.

For uPNP info refer to this KB article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;323713
 
Type CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2 at Start>Run...

Sounds good. This part works fine now.
For uPNP info refer to this KB article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;323713
Click to expand...

Technical articles are great to learn stuff from, and my question was if it
would effect my system functionality in any way, I guess the answer would be
yes, because now XP can't detect any UPnP devices attached to my machine
that I haven't already installed software for, right?

Jeff
 
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