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superboyac:
Do any of you have some of your system tray icons disappear for no reason?  It happens all the time to me.  I thought it had something to do with the auto-hide feature of xp, but that didn't make sense since I have it disabled.  Instead, I use a tray management utility called PS Tray.  But I don't think that's causing it either.

Anyway, here a solution to the problem in this link (post #11):
Clearing System Tray History
Apparently, Windows keeps a history of any icons that appear in your tray, and if you clear it, then the problems go away.

IDEA
Can someone create a tiny utility that will clear the history upon shutdown or booting or something, so this problem goes away?  I know a lot of us use those 3rd party system tray utilities and disable the windows one, and they are fully capable of handling all of our system tray issues.  So, this utility would just let those programs do their job without meddling.

lanux128:
try this AHK script: Clear SysTray History.

- clears the specified the reg key when shutting down.
- code for detecting shut-down based on haichen's script.


--- ---;Clear SysTray History script
;Code for Shut-down query based on haichen's script
;Run before shutdown - http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26304

#Persistent
#SingleInstance force
#NoTrayIcon
#NoEnv ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
DetectHiddenWindows On

DllCall("kernel32.dll\SetProcessShutdownParameters", UInt, 0x4FF, UInt, 0)
OnMessage(0x11, "WM_QUERYENDSESSION")
Return

WM_QUERYENDSESSION(wParam, lParam)
  {
  ;RegDelete, RootKey, SubKey [, ValueName]
  RegDelete, HKCU, Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify, IconStreams
  RegDelete, HKCU, Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify, PastIconsStream
  ExitApp
  }

lanux128:
so superboyac, any luck with this script? :)

superboyac:
Thanks lanux for that, but I think I may have done something bad to my computer.  I don't know if it was from your script or from what I was messing with before that, but every time I start up Windows now, I can't click on my taskbar.
What happens is that I click on my taskbar (left or right) but nothing happens.  I have to go to the task manager, kill the explorer.exe, and then restart it again for the taskbar to be clickable.
So, I don't know how to fix this, I think I broke my taskbar.  This is much worse that not seeing my icons.

PhilB66:
Give Taskbar Repair Tool a try. Also, Nirsoft has a small utility, Explorestart, to kill all instances of Explorer and start a new one.

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