don

I had looked at the "hide inactive icons" which is selected - and is applied
to all items including the "you have new mail" icon. I have tried
customizing - but nothing gets it working again. I was thinking of
restoring the system to a recent time when the icon was working, but unsure
if that would do anything and the issue is not that important - more an
irritant. Anyway thanks for your input.


"Gary VanderMolen" <gary@NoMail.invalid> wrote in message
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> Right-click on the taskbar, select Properties, Notification area.
> Is "Hide inactive icons" selected? If so, you can customize
> which ones you want to see.
>
> Gary VanderMolen
>
> "don" <don@home> wrote in message
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>> Brink, thanks for the reply. However I think the link you provide is
>> solving a different requirement. I realise that the system tray icon is
>> a temporary notification which Windows Mail (and Outlook Express)
>> provides to show that new unread mail is available. Over the years (with
>> Outlook Express and more recently with Windows Mail) I have got used to
>> this notification and I find it useful. However a few days ago I
>> stopped getting the Windows Mail notification icon on my Vista laptop,
>> i.e.although there is new mail for me to read, there is no icon - which
>> is a change from how it has been from when I first got Vista/Windows Mail
>> up until a few days ago. I don't know what I did to lose the icon - but
>> my question is how do I get back to the way that it was?
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