False behaviour in notification area.

[Guest spamlet]

Our XP Pro system has recently began to be plagued with false symbols and

lack of symbols in the 'notification' area or the task bar.

 

I have Process explorer set to run at startup, and it does so, but its

symbol does not appear in the area as it always has done; similarly, the

loud speaker symbol does not appear; and the wireless card symbol is crossed

out with a message saying card not found even though it is working properly;

more worryingly the (McAfee) antivirus shield symbol is crossed out saying

on access scan is disabled even though it is not. I keep correcting these

by disabling and re-enabling, but it always comes back at next log on.

 

I have scanned with Spybot and AdAware, and found nothing.

The pc is up to date with MS except that we have not moved on to IE7 yet.

I use 'Task Bar activate' from 'Kelly's Corner' as this once overcame task

bar freezing problems.

 

Any ideas?

 

Cheers,

 

S

[Guest spamlet]

Re: False behaviour in notification area.

 

OK so I should have searched first...

I've now found the excellent review of sys tray matters at winhlp.com

 

Cheers,

 

S

 

"spamlet" <spam.morespam@invalid.invalid> wrote in message

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> Our XP Pro system has recently began to be plagued with false symbols and

> lack of symbols in the 'notification' area or the task bar.

>

> I have Process explorer set to run at startup, and it does so, but its

> symbol does not appear in the area as it always has done; similarly, the

> loud speaker symbol does not appear; and the wireless card symbol is

> crossed out with a message saying card not found even though it is working

> properly; more worryingly the (McAfee) antivirus shield symbol is crossed

> out saying on access scan is disabled even though it is not. I keep

> correcting these by disabling and re-enabling, but it always comes back at

> next log on.

>

> I have scanned with Spybot and AdAware, and found nothing.

> The pc is up to date with MS except that we have not moved on to IE7 yet.

> I use 'Task Bar activate' from 'Kelly's Corner' as this once overcame task

> bar freezing problems.

>

> Any ideas?

>

> Cheers,

>

> S

>