Hi Eric,

Have you tried stopping and restarting the explorer shell? It may be that
they are loading but not making it to the taskbar. If this is the case, it's
likely that something else in your startup routine is interfering with the
process.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Eric" wrote in message
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As I can see from other posts that my only solution is to restart or
logoff.
once again, thanks for a great product, Microsoft.

"Eric" wrote:

I am running Windows Vista Ultimate on my CyberpowerPC laptop.
Occasionally
on startup, my battery meter, network manager and volume icons do not
show up
in my task bar. I have to restart to get them to show up. What could be
causing this? It is very annoying.