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.
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.
Tags: safely-remove-hardware-icon-missing, system-tray-icon-missing, tray-cons-not-visible, tray-icons-not-displayed, tray-icons-not-loaded, volume-control-missing
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Worked in about ten seconds! Thanks so much!
Wow, this is fantastic. It worked like a charm. Other sites mentioned editing the registry, which obviosly was not neccessary! Thanks!!!!
this is fantastic, i love .bat scrpts 
Perfect! Simple and awesome. That’s wisdom in software. Thank you so much..!!!
Question: How do I make this solution permanent when I boot my PC? –
Thanks, OSCAR
how can i recover the deepfreeze icon in my system tray?
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Dude!!! Never would have thought of restarting explorer – it’s indeed an old machine. In your debt for that one, thanks.
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
@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
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
thank you thank you thank you. really worked
Thankyou so much! This was a great help… worked like lightning!!!!!!!!!! 
Thanks!
It worked but then again when i rebooted the next day same problem can you help ?
not every windows xp release has taskkill.exe
in home edition you wont have taskkill inside your system. cmiiw
not every windows xp release has taskkill.exe
in home edition you wont have taskkill inside your system. cmiiw
but you could download it from microsoft site
regards
@dedy – thanks for the information about this – we appreciate it – thanks for sharing
Not to worry about last message, seen where i went wrong
i think it does not work for me coz when i try it the network status icon doesnt show when i use that program
i think it does not work for me coz when i try it the network status icon doesnt show when i use that program
pls any sugestions???
Easy to use effective fix. Thanks!
SUPERB!!! WORKS EXCELLENT.. ONE CLICK AND DONE!!!!
Worked beautifully! Thankyou.
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