Notification Area

[death pax]

This isnt completely for auto it, rather a problem i discover when i was working on a script.

I was creating a script with a TrayIcon. The first time i tried it, everything worked fine. But yesterday when i ran the same script again, i discovered that my notification area is gone. No tray icons from any progs, only the current time. Anyone have any ideas? Also in the Taskbar/startmenu properties where you would normally set properties of the notification area is greyed out

Edit: Also, on another user account on my comp, the notification area works fine.

Edited September 10, 2006 by death pax

[this-is-me]

Does the clock still show up? If not, you may have enabled two monitors in display properties and allowed the desktop to extend to the second monitor. In this case the tray would be there, but offscreen on the right.

[death pax]

Ill upload a screenshot quick...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v80/death_pax/screen.jpg

MSN, an auto it script, my internet connection, and my battery life icon should be in the notification area, at bare minimum

Edited September 10, 2006 by death pax

[Achilles]

Ill upload a screenshot quick...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v80/death_pax/screen.jpg

MSN, an auto it script, my internet connection, and my battery life icon should be in the notification area, at bare minimum

It seems very obvious (which is why it's probably not the right reason), but have you tried right clicking on the taskbar and customizing your icons and making sure they didn't all get set to always hide for some reason?

Piano_Man

Edit: What happens if you start a program after the computer has been logged on for awhile? I assume it doesn't show up...

Edited September 11, 2006 by Piano_Man

[death pax]

I'm Afraid its not that simple either

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v80/deat...rProperties.jpg

[Valik]

Either of these two links should help, probably the first one:

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/traynotify.htm

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/trayicons.htm

By the way, those links were easy to find. I used the search phrases:

notification area icons missing

hide inactive icons greyed out

[Hyflex]

looks to be that ur missing a file from ur windows folder.

[death pax]

valik was correct.. i should have guessed it was the windows policies... but it makes me wonder what caused them to be that way to begin with