Guest Keith W Posted May 27, 2008 Posted May 27, 2008 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 Unknown Posted May 27, 2008 Posted May 27, 2008 Re: System Tray Arrow Missing Is 'hide inactive icons' turned on? "Keith W" <invalidaddress@invalidaddress.invalid> wrote in message news:g1hnm7$vno$1@news.albasani.net... > This is a minor but irritating little fault that has cropped up on my > wife's PC. I reinstalled Windows XP on the machine about a month ago to > give it a larger hard drive and tidy up the crud. All has been well and > it updated to SP3 satisfactorily some three weeks ago. Now, it has > suddenly lost the little left pointing chevron at the left side of the > system tray that allows you to open the tray wider to display the inactive > icons. Any ideas how to get the chevron back please? > -- > Keith Willcocks > (If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living) >
Guest ANONYMOUS Posted May 27, 2008 Posted May 27, 2008 Re: System Tray Arrow Missing You need to make one of the items "Always Hide". To do this, right-click on bottom task bar, Select Properties and now click on Customise Tab (next to Hide Inactive Icons). Select one of the items and change it to "Always Hide". Click Apply. click OK Hope this helps. Keith W wrote: >This is a minor but irritating little fault that has cropped up on my wife's >PC. I reinstalled Windows XP on the machine about a month ago to give it a >larger hard drive and tidy up the crud. All has been well and it updated >to SP3 satisfactorily some three weeks ago. Now, it has suddenly lost the >little left pointing chevron at the left side of the system tray that allows >you to open the tray wider to display the inactive icons. Any ideas how to >get the chevron back please? > >
Guest Keith W Posted May 27, 2008 Posted May 27, 2008 Re: System Tray Arrow Missing Yes, it always has been and I have just checked again to make sure. This happened all of a sudden. The only visible icons are Comodo Firewall, AVG Anti Virus, Roboform and the LAN (two little monitors). All others are not showing and unobtainable due to the missing chevron. -- Keith W Sunbury on Thames (If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living) "Unknown" <unknown@unknown.kom> wrote in message news:3OZ_j.1941$uE5.1744@flpi144.ffdc.sbc.com... > 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 Posted May 28, 2008 Posted May 28, 2008 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 -- Joe =o)
Guest Milli Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 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. -- Milli Posted via http://computerhelpforums.net Forum to USENET Gateway
Guest Kelly Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 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 -- 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 news:Milli.3g85yy@nntp.nospam.local... > > 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. > > > -- > Milli > Posted via http://computerhelpforums.net Forum to USENET Gateway >
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