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icons not showing up on startup
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. |
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icons not showing up on startup
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. |
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icons not showing up on startup
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. -- 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 ... 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. |
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icons not showing up on startup
Rick, how would I go about doing that? I don't think it is it because it has
been doing it since I got the computer, but I am up to try anything. Also, after I restart the explorer shell, and something else is causing it, what would I do to isolate the problem. Thanks. "Rick Rogers" wrote: 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. -- 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 ... 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. |
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icons not showing up on startup
Hi Eric,
Hit ctrl+shift+escape to open task manager, then kill ("end process") explorer.exe on the processes tab after logging on. Then go to the applications tab and click "new task" and enter explorer.exe, click ok. This will restart the explorer shell. If the icons show up now, it means that something in your startup axis is interfering with them initializing. If it is just your user account that is affected, the startup folder would be the first place to look. If it is all accounts on this machine, then you can use msconfig's startup tab to selective enable and disable processes that are loading at boot to isolate which one is the cause. I would start by disabling antivirus/antimalware applications as they tend to be a major cause of these things. Also, the Google desktop has been shown to cause some odd behavior, you might try uninstalling it if this applies to you. -- 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 ... Rick, how would I go about doing that? I don't think it is it because it has been doing it since I got the computer, but I am up to try anything. Also, after I restart the explorer shell, and something else is causing it, what would I do to isolate the problem. Thanks. "Rick Rogers" wrote: 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. -- 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 ... 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. |
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icons not showing up on startup
hi there, i have vista business x32 and whenever i startup, the desktop icons show for a second and then once everything is loaded up they disappear. I then have to uncheck the "show desktop icons" option in the view panel and re-enable it for them to show. Everything else seems to be okay otherwise. -- Zoid96 |
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icons not showing up on startup
hi there, i have vista business x32 and whenever i startup, the desktop icons show for a second and then once everything is loaded up they disappear. I then have to uncheck the "show desktop icons" option in the view panel and re-enable it for them to show. Everything else seems to be okay otherwise. -- Zoid96 |