Solved Invisible icons in notification area (system tray)

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terry09

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I have vista x64 and recently after i cleaned a nasty out of my system, MOST of my notification area icons are invisible. They system icons (network, volume, clock) are showing but the others are not. I have gone in and made sure that i am not hiding inactive icons and far as making sure that I have set all icons to "show". Here is where it get really funked up. I can hover my cursor where the icons should be and it gives me the tips of that program. For example if i hover over where the windows update icon should be, it tells me that i have updates available. And it works. Whilst typing this i thought about changing my theme from vista to classic...the systray had a black box where the icons should be. Kinda like they were being censored but i swear i have no adult rated icons. The system icons still show. I have disabled the UPnP as well as SSDP discovery. I have deleted the registry values of past present and future icons of christmas. That was a joke. I have logged off and logged back on. The only thing that brought them back temporarily was to run ccleaner. After a reboot they went invisible like they were ashamed to be on a windows OS. Go figure. I re-ran ccleaner to no avail. I am now at a loss. I really don't want to reload windows but if i must, i must. Thanks in advance to any suggestions. Oh yeah, sorry for the novel.
 

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Thanks Jimmy for the quick response. Unfortunately I had tried the first suggestion and the second reported nothing. To make matters more (to use a technical term) "jacked up", I have a couple of icons showing now, but when I hover over them, they seem to be in the wrong spot. I.E., I have to hover to the left of my symantec icon to be able to utilize it's properties. Funky huh? Oh well, I will keep trying.
 

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    Gateway
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    intel core 2 Extreme QX6700
    Motherboard
    intel
    Memory
    3 gigs
    Graphics card(s)
    NVIDA
    Sound Card
    Creative SB X-FI
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Gateway 24 HD Monitor
    Screen Resolution
    1920 by 1200 pixels
    Hard Drives
    2-500 gigabyte hard drive Western digtal
Terry09, did you ever figure out how to fix your issue? I have the same problem left over ofter cleaning up some apparent Trojans. My explorer.exe kept crashing too. All fixed after running 4 different anti-virus/malware programs. But that blacked out section in the Notification Area persists...

-Craig
 

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Thanks for the suggestion. Sorry, I forgot to mention that I did tried that procedures listed above for the reset (merge the provided .reg file and bounce explorer.exe). No luck. BTW, I don't mean to hijack this this thread ;) ... Just wondering if the poster managed to fix his issue in a non destructive way.
 

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CCleaner has a box to check and clean 'notification cache' ... see if that cleans it up.
 

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terry09 said:
I have vista x64 and recently after i cleaned a nasty out of my system, MOST of my notification area icons are invisible. They system icons (network, volume, clock) are showing but the others are not. I have gone in and made sure that i am not hiding inactive icons and far as making sure that I have set all icons to "show". Here is where it get really funked up. I can hover my cursor where the icons should be and it gives me the tips of that program. For example if i hover over where the windows update icon should be, it tells me that i have updates available. And it works. Whilst typing this i thought about changing my theme from vista to classic...the systray had a black box where the icons should be. Kinda like they were being censored but i swear i have no adult rated icons. The system icons still show. I have disabled the UPnP as well as SSDP discovery. I have deleted the registry values of past present and future icons of christmas. That was a joke. I have logged off and logged back on. The only thing that brought them back temporarily was to run ccleaner. After a reboot they went invisible like they were ashamed to be on a windows OS. Go figure. I re-ran ccleaner to no avail. I am now at a loss. I really don't want to reload windows but if i must, i must. Thanks in advance to any suggestions. Oh yeah, sorry for the novel.
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Does this happen with all Users? If you do not have another User than Please Create another one or Enable the Guest Account

Many Thanks,
Josh
 

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    Standard PS/2 Keyboard
Thank you Jacee!! I was having the same problem with the notification area being invisible after a nasty malware removal. I ran the CCleaner and made sure to check the Tray Notification Cache box. Rebooted and now everything is back to normal.

Thanks again :)
 

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I'm Glad you got your Problem Sorted I will now mark this thread as Solved ;)
 

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    Motherboard
    Foxconn H67MP-S/-V/H67MP
    Memory
    8.0GB DDR3 @ 665MHz (2GBx4)
    Graphics card(s)
    AMD HD Radeon 6870
    Sound Card
    Realtek High Definition Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    SMB1930NW (1440x900@60Hz)
    Screen Resolution
    1280x800
    Hard Drives
    977GB Seagate ST31000524AS ATA Device (SATA) + 250GB WD iSCSI attached Drive
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    Novatech Night
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    Dell HID-compliant mouse
    Keyboard
    Standard PS/2 Keyboard
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