I've got a bit of an problem here. The system tray is gone. The clock is there, but no icons. The volume control is enabled for the system tray and it's not there. The check mark box to enable autohide for the system tray icons is unclickable. Can some one help me fix this?

all I can say is... switch to litestep.

seriously, though, all I can think of is restart explorer.exe and hope for the best

also, what OS?

Windows XP

Restarted explorer and no such luck.

I don't know what to say..... if you have to, install XP on top of XP. you'll lose all your installs, but it should keep everything else.

Quote: Originally Posted by Hanyou's Pasokon Windows XP Restarted explorer and no such luck.

Did you also try rebooting the machine.

Also what were the events that happened before it was gone? ie. error messages, program failure, power failure?

is sstray.exe running in the task manager? if not open it up. then gointo msconfig and make sure sstray is enabled on startup, all i can think of

Tried rebotting. And that didn't fix it. XP has been installed 2 or three times leasing up to this, becuase of some problems. We decided that the HD was bad, because we luckily got into windows after having it lock up a number of tiems and when i tried running a program I double clicked it a number of times before it finally was able to read the area of the HD and load it up. At first it would load and then give up. There's a Different drive in it now. Had some difficulties installing it at first, but now it's fine except the system tray. I've gotten around this with object bar. Just recently it would freeze up and then work again, freeze up and work again...over and over. I just restarted and now it seems fine. I'm beginning to wonder if there's more to it.

There is one thing that I'm finding quite disturbing is that some of the same things that are happening to this machine happened to another machine that I used to use, before I gave up on it.

Just to get a better mental image of your problem could you attach an image of your desktop with the toobar up.

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It looks like you just don't have any icons activated. Just try this first and then we can go from there.

1.) Control Panel
2.) Sound and Audio Devices
3.) Volume Tab.
4.) Place volume icon in taskbar. (Be sure it is checked)
5.) Click Apply.

already did that, though i'm kind of not worried about it, now wince Objectbar was a good round about way to have a system tray, but of course if i exit objectbar it goes back to the old systemtrayless taskbar.

I've been thinking of the problems I've had with this machine and a previous machine that was hooked up in this very room. The problem may have been cuased by outlet voltage and I may need an AVR. If I had the money I'd get an APC UPS with AVR, but alas I don't exactly have that right now. =/

It was working fine an hour ago and then suddenly *poof* they're all gone. Norton Antivirus, Yahoo Messenger, and Outlook have all disappeared from my system tray. They're still running as processes, but I can't get to them because there's no icon in the tray. I rebooted the machine and everything. still no luck. WTF?

try this:

Go to the following registry key:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer]

Find the value "EnableAutoTray" and change it to 1 (it's likely 0 now)

If it's not there, then add it as a dword value.

love your wallpaper, Hanyou!

still no good. in properties for the task bar the hide inactive icons option is completely greyed out as well. i've been researching this and it seems it happen when explorer.exe crashes, but it never crashed. one minute they're there, the next they are not. *sigh*

In my experience unexplained PC phenomena is caused by either a virus or a bad PSU ... I think you can rule out the PSU, but I'd update your AV & run a full scan ... probably worth using something like Adaware too

i reinstalled my NAV2003 (which i read seemed to be a cause of it) and it worked. *shrug* damn computers. thanks tho guys

Quote: Originally Posted by DuplexEmotions I don't know what to say..... if you have to, install XP on top of XP. you'll lose all your installs, but it should keep everything else.

Not if your installs are on a seperate partition. That is precisely why only windows and benchmark software make their way to my c partition anymore.