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Tray Management Utilities Mini-Review

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MilesAhead:
I'm going to be lazy, and see if a reboot fixes it ;-)
-tomos (September 23, 2015, 01:20 PM)
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That's always the first option.

tomos:
I'm going to be lazy, and see if a reboot fixes it ;-)
-tomos (September 23, 2015, 01:20 PM)
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That's always the first option.
-MilesAhead (September 23, 2015, 05:21 PM)
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seems to be working again:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=41309.msg389895#msg389895

MilesAhead:

seems to be working again:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=41309.msg389895#msg389895


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 :up:

dr_andus:
Add Restart Explorer to Context Menu
-4wd (August 06, 2012, 10:44 PM)
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So, I am in the middle of installing my tons of software onto my new Win7, 64-bit laptop, and it didn't take very long for Windows to stop displaying the tray icons correctly. Some of this might be because some of the programmes are ancient and are no longer updated. E.g. the WinSplit Revolution app is running, it is set as to be always shown in the tray, yet it is nowhere to be found.

On my old PC I just used 4wd's recommendation above and restarted Explorer with "Restart Explorer,"  which worked every time. My question is: am I running the risk of messing up my new laptop in the long run if I run "Restart Explorer" every time my laptop is rebooted?

I'd hate to mess it up with something trivial like this, on the other hand I'm annoyed that the Winsplit icon is not showing as it's supposed to (and many other icons, by the way).

MilesAhead:
@dr_andus I would take a look at this tutorial:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/13102-notification-area-icons-reset.html

Also CCleaner has a cleaning option to delete the Windows notification cache but it does the same thing.

I have found no easy way to get all the icons to show.  I delete the cache, then uncheck the option to show all icons and notifications.  Then I set all remaining items in the list to show both icons and notifications.  Then I enable the check box "show all icons and notifications."  That seems to get it to act normally for a time.  But Windows will be gone before they fix the system tray.  There's no money to be made by fixing it.

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