HI,

The same thing happens to me on both my desktop and laptop with 
XP.  Someone explained to me that it was an XP bug.   To get them 
back, the advice was to log off the user and log back on.   That 
always seems to return the icons correctly.

Sue Na

At 09:50 AM 2/17/2007, you wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>My wife and I have a small annoying problem.
>We have the same exact hardware.
>
>Specs.
>
>Win XP Pro Svc. Pk 2 up to date as of  2-17-07
>Custom Build
>1-gig Ram
>2.4ghz Intel Cpu
>Geforce 4 w/128meg ram
>
>It seems that when we reboot some of the system tray icons (bottom 
>right corner) don't show up!
>The icons that don't show up are actually running as I check for the 
>processes that are running and everything is running normal like.
>It's just the icons of some just don't show for some reason. 
>Sometimes it can take several reboots to get everything to show up, 
>which I think is a waste.
>It sometimes gets real annoying because some of the icons we use to 
>access (right click on them) the programs with. So it forces me to 
>go find the folder and access them that way. So if someone can 
>suggest something it would be nice so I can get access to these 
>programs from the system tray.
>
>I have tried several things like using Tweakui to repair icons, 
>tried several 3rd party software to organize startup programs but to no avail.
>It seems to be a glitch in XP or maybe an update is causing the 
>problem. This has been going on for quite a while, to the point I 
>just live with it.
>But my wife is having the same problem and she gets more annoyed 
>than I do. The wife runs a lot of different software than I do, so 
>I'm confused because if we ran the same exact software than I would 
>more likely blame a third party program. At this point I've ran out 
>of patience and idea's.
>
>So if anyone has any ideas please let me know!
>
>Thanks
>
>Brad Feuerhelm
>
>

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