Solved Notification area not collapsing

[Seijun]

This is kind of weird, I only just noticed it (reinstalled vista a week or two ago)
The notification area, down by the time, has 13 icons showing. And there isn't any "<" or ">" symbol near them at all. Is there setting that I touched on accident that disabled the notification area's ability to collapse after a certain number of icons are displayed? Or, is it normal for it to show 13 icons without collapsing....

 

[Chappy]

Hi Seijun

Yes, there is a setting you need to change. It;s in the Start Menu and Taskbar properties. Right click the taskbar and select Properties, you'll find it in there. I'm booted into Windows 7 right now and that is changed a bit in this OS so I can't be more precise but you can't miss it.

 

[Seijun]

Ok, found it. "Hide inactive icons". This doesn't actually change anything for me.. So, I guess all 13 icons are active. I wonder how they define "inactive"?

Edit: Ok, I figured it out *feels stupid* I just need to set some icons to "hide" and I get my little "< >" arrows. I can believe I've been using windows for 10 years and never figured that out.

 

[Dwarf]

Hi Seijun,

Have a look at the following Tutorial: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/99008-notification-icons-reset.html

 

[Chappy]

LOL!!

I know how you feel Seijun, and that's happened to ALL of us at one time or another

Glad to have helped kick start the ole brain!!