Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Fix - Icons missing from system tray (Taskbar)

Category              : Windows
Operating System  : Vista



1. Start a admin cmd (command prompt) window
2. Type regedit in the admin cmd window to launch Registry Editor
3. Go to HKEY_USER\User SID\Software\Classes\Local Settings \Software\ Microsoft \ Windows\CurrentVersion \TrayNotify

4. Delete keys IconStreams and PastIconsStream
5. Press F5, and close the regedit.
6. Start Task Manager, go to processes and kill explorer.exe
7. Go to applications in the Task Manager, hit new task and type explorer.exe and click OK
8. Explorer will now reboot your icons should return to normal now.



                                              !!Cheers!!

2 comments:

  1. Seth, i had to format my laptop recently... still in porcess of reinstalling everything... even my True Image backup become corrupt... damn Sality virus...

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  2. Sorry to hear that Ken-Chan, but i believe there is Remover for W32/Sality-AA Win32 in the net. Have you tried it first!

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