System Tray Arrow Missing

[Guest Keith W]

This is a minor but irritating little fault that has cropped up on my wife's

PC. I reinstalled Windows XP on the machine about a month ago to give it a

larger hard drive and tidy up the crud. All has been well and it updated

to SP3 satisfactorily some three weeks ago. Now, it has suddenly lost the

little left pointing chevron at the left side of the system tray that allows

you to open the tray wider to display the inactive icons. Any ideas how to

get the chevron back please?

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Keith Willcocks

(If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living)

[Guest Unknown]

Re: System Tray Arrow Missing

 

Is 'hide inactive icons' turned on?

"Keith W" <invalidaddress@invalidaddress.invalid> wrote in message

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> This is a minor but irritating little fault that has cropped up on my

> wife's PC. I reinstalled Windows XP on the machine about a month ago to

> give it a larger hard drive and tidy up the crud. All has been well and

> it updated to SP3 satisfactorily some three weeks ago. Now, it has

> suddenly lost the little left pointing chevron at the left side of the

> system tray that allows you to open the tray wider to display the inactive

> icons. Any ideas how to get the chevron back please?

> --

> Keith Willcocks

> (If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living)

>

[Guest ANONYMOUS]

Re: System Tray Arrow Missing

 

You need to make one of the items "Always Hide". To do this,

right-click on bottom task bar, Select Properties and now click on

Customise Tab (next to Hide Inactive Icons). Select one of the items

and change it to "Always Hide". Click Apply. click OK

 

Hope this helps.

 

 

Keith W wrote:

>This is a minor but irritating little fault that has cropped up on my wife's

>PC. I reinstalled Windows XP on the machine about a month ago to give it a

>larger hard drive and tidy up the crud. All has been well and it updated

>to SP3 satisfactorily some three weeks ago. Now, it has suddenly lost the

>little left pointing chevron at the left side of the system tray that allows

>you to open the tray wider to display the inactive icons. Any ideas how to

>get the chevron back please?

>

>

[Guest Keith W]

Re: System Tray Arrow Missing

 

Yes, it always has been and I have just checked again to make sure. This

happened all of a sudden. The only visible icons are Comodo Firewall, AVG

Anti Virus, Roboform and the LAN (two little monitors). All others are not

showing and unobtainable due to the missing chevron.

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Keith W

Sunbury on Thames

(If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living)

 

 

"Unknown" <unknown@unknown.kom> wrote in message

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> Is 'hide inactive icons' turned on?

> "Keith W" <invalidaddress@invalidaddress.invalid> wrote in message

> news:g1hnm7$vno$1@news.albasani.net...

>> This is a minor but irritating little fault that has cropped up on my

>> wife's PC. I reinstalled Windows XP on the machine about a month ago to

>> give it a larger hard drive and tidy up the crud. All has been well and

>> it updated to SP3 satisfactorily some three weeks ago. Now, it has

>> suddenly lost the little left pointing chevron at the left side of the

>> system tray that allows you to open the tray wider to display the

>> inactive icons. Any ideas how to get the chevron back please?

>> --

>> Keith Willcocks

>> (If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living)

>>

>

>

[Guest Elmo]

Re: System Tray Arrow Missing

 

Keith W wrote:

> This is a minor but irritating little fault that has cropped up on my wife's

> PC. I reinstalled Windows XP on the machine about a month ago to give it a

> larger hard drive and tidy up the crud. All has been well and it updated

> to SP3 satisfactorily some three weeks ago. Now, it has suddenly lost the

> little left pointing chevron at the left side of the system tray that allows

> you to open the tray wider to display the inactive icons. Any ideas how to

> get the chevron back please?

 

A few scripts collected by Kelly.. you can edit any one to see what it

does before trying it.

 

Line 53. (r-h column) Hide or Show Inactive Icons - Notification Area

Line 88. (r-h column) Hide Inactive Icons and More

Line 134. Hide All Notification Area Icons - Undo

Line 294. (r-h column) Hide or Show Notification Area Icons

Line 117. Restore Taskbar and Start Menu

Line 164. Restore Taskbar to Default Functionality

Line 195. (r-h column) Restore Desktop Icons and Taskbar

Line 298. Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

 

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Joe =o)

[Guest Milli]

Re: System Tray Arrow Missing

 

 

Wow that was great! I was having the same arrow problem the other

fellow was having with his wife's computer, and I was tweaking

everything! Can't tell you how much this little bit of info helped! It

never occurred to me to click on an always hide. LOL...thanks so much!

This wasn't a big problem, but it was getting on my nerves that I

couldn't find what to do, and looked in MS info to boot and didn't find

a thing to address this the way you did.

 

 

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Milli

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[Guest Kelly]

Re: System Tray Arrow Missing

 

For most users, setting the very first icon to Always Hide, restores the

arrow/chevron. Also be certain that the "behavior" of each of each icon is

what you want it to be. Right-click each, to make changes.

 

More information here:

Troubleshooting the Notification Area

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_n.htm#na

 

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All the Best,

Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP)

 

Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm

 

SupportSpace

http://www.supportspace.com/pages?aiu=kellyskorner

 

"Milli" <Milli.3g85yy@nntp.nospam.local> wrote in message

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>

> Wow that was great! I was having the same arrow problem the other

> fellow was having with his wife's computer, and I was tweaking

> everything! Can't tell you how much this little bit of info helped! It

> never occurred to me to click on an always hide. LOL...thanks so much!

> This wasn't a big problem, but it was getting on my nerves that I

> couldn't find what to do, and looked in MS info to boot and didn't find

> a thing to address this the way you did.

>

>

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> Milli

> Posted via http://computerhelpforums.net Forum to USENET Gateway

>