Aravis said:
Do you really mean the system tray - the small(ish) area by the clock, by
default at the right-hand end of the Taskbar?
is not showing all the programs that are running;
The system tray doesn't do this. Do you mean the Taskbar - the much longer
bar between the Start Button (or Quick Launch toolbar) on the left and the
system tray (usually holding the clock) on the right?
How do you know this?
and don't show up in the tray, which means I have to
go to Start Menu to get their window.
Going to the Start Menu (and clicking on the programs' icons) starts them
up. The unusual phrase "getting their window" implies (to me) making visible
something that wasn't before.
At that time, they may show in
the tray, but often not even then. This is recent behaviour;
everything worked well till recently. Any ideas on this?
It's not entirely clear (to me) what your problem really is. Is it that
there are programs that you have set to run on start up with the computer,
whose icons usually appear in the system tray (by the clock), but which have
stopped doing that - and even when fired up manually via the Start Menu they
don't always appear? It would probably help if you could specify what these
programs are.
What I'd suggest is trying a System Restore to a time just before things
started going wrong. Have you installed any new programs or fitted new
hardware recently? Failing that, run full, updated scans with the
anti-malware tools you have in place. You *do* have some in place?
