How to fix system tray icons missing in vista and xp

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Trouble:

Many a times when the windows boot, the tray icons like volume control icon, network status icon, safely remove hardware icon etc. which should be visible in the tray are not visible properly.

system tray icons

In such a case, many a times you will find volume control missing, or you will find Safely remove hardware icon missing, or any other useful tray icon which you frequently use.

 

Why are tray icons not loaded properly?

 

 

At the time when windows is booting, there are many processes which are simultaneously being launched. All these are running in parallel waiting for the CPU turn. Some times when the CPU is busy with some processes, windows misses to properly load the icons.

 

Lets see how to fix this issue.

Fix:

 

The fix is simple, whenever you find that the tray icons are not properly loaded, you can restart explorer task. This will freshly build all the tray, task-bar and desktop icons.

 

To restart the windows explorer, we have made a small windows-batch file which you can download from here.

 

Just download and save this file on your computer. Double-click on this file and it will re-start the windows explorer for you. After this, all the tray icons will be loaded properly.

 

For those who like to do it manually, open the command prompt and type the following two commands one by one:

 

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe

explorer.exe

 

We hope you find this handy and useful.


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Hal says, September 8th, 2008   

Worked in about ten seconds! Thanks so much!

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Michael says, November 17th, 2008   

Wow, this is fantastic. It worked like a charm. Other sites mentioned editing the registry, which obviosly was not neccessary! Thanks!!!!

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Daniel says, December 14th, 2008   

this is fantastic, i love .bat scrpts :)

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Oscar Sanchez says, February 8th, 2009   

Perfect! Simple and awesome. That’s wisdom in software. Thank you so much..!!!

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Oscar Sanchez says, February 8th, 2009   

Question: How do I make this solution permanent when I boot my PC? -
Thanks, OSCAR

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Mark Catama says, February 23rd, 2009   

how can i recover the deepfreeze icon in my system tray?

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John W says, April 27th, 2009   

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

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Dave T says, April 30th, 2009   

Dude!!! Never would have thought of restarting explorer - it’s indeed an old machine. In your debt for that one, thanks.

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Rocco says, May 16th, 2009   

I tried your program and nothing happens does not even reboot
I notice when i downloaded that a dialog box appears saying the download size is 55KB but the program i downloaded was only 1 KB Is that the actual size or is it 55 KB? I will look here for the next few days to see your reply. I can’t use my computer to get on the net since this trouble happened so i really need to fix it. Hopefully you have an answer

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Rohit says, May 16th, 2009   

@Rocco

use these commands on command prompt in case you are not able to download the batch file:

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe

explorer.exe

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Rocco says, May 17th, 2009   

I can’t use command prompt from the lib computer, if it is not too much trouble e-mail it to me. I might be able to get my e-mails at the lib but don’t know for sure

r_marcantonio@netzero.net Not sure.,this might be a worm or something I have tried many workarounds

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someone says, June 29th, 2009   

thank you thank you thank you. really worked

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