Vista - No icons in the taskbar

I don't have any of the system tray icons in my taskbar nor do any of my open
programs show up there. This happened suddenly and not after a
software/driver load. I tried rebooting, but this did not fix the problem.

I'm running Windows Vista Beta 2. Any assistance would be greatly
appreciated.

Do a system restore and try again.

"Chrick" <Chrick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I don't have any of the system tray icons in my taskbar nor do any of my
>open
> programs show up there. This happened suddenly and not after a
> software/driver load. I tried rebooting, but this did not fix the
> problem.
>
> I'm running Windows Vista Beta 2. Any assistance would be greatly
> appreciated.

Has anyone gotten system restore to actually work? My one attempt to create
a system restore point, install a program, uninstall the program (which
didn't work) and then do a system restore, left most if not all of the
registry entries behind. I could see no evidence that any restore took
place. And yes, I rebooted after each step for good measure.


"Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote in message
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> Do a system restore and try again.
>
> "Chrick" <Chrick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9491A70A-6462-433C-AA25-B61E9E4568B2@microsoft.com...
>>I don't have any of the system tray icons in my taskbar nor do any of my
>>open
>> programs show up there. This happened suddenly and not after a
>> software/driver load. I tried rebooting, but this did not fix the
>> problem.
>>
>> I'm running Windows Vista Beta 2. Any assistance would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>
>

Yes. I have successfully done a system restore using ver. 5384.4 x64.

Mind you, I have also taken steps to ensure that XP is not wiping out the
restore points in a dual-boot system (search the newsgroup for volsnap.sys).

--
Mark

Keeping the fun in dysfunctional!

"John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net> wrote in message
news:e4v0VOopGHA.524@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Has anyone gotten system restore to actually work? My one attempt to
> create a system restore point, install a program, uninstall the program
> (which didn't work) and then do a system restore, left most if not all of
> the registry entries behind. I could see no evidence that any restore
> took place. And yes, I rebooted after each step for good measure.
>
>
> "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:eNMGdoipGHA.4760@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Do a system restore and try again.
>>
>> "Chrick" <Chrick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:9491A70A-6462-433C-AA25-B61E9E4568B2@microsoft.com...
>>>I don't have any of the system tray icons in my taskbar nor do any of my
>>>open
>>> programs show up there. This happened suddenly and not after a
>>> software/driver load. I tried rebooting, but this did not fix the
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> I'm running Windows Vista Beta 2. Any assistance would be greatly
>>> appreciated.
>>
>>
>
>

Yes. When I was testing BitLocker's ability to protect
System restore points, I used SR. It seemed to work,
there were some desktop icons missing and GAIM did
not work after the SR. I had purposely used an older
restore point to see if I would notice a difference.

The only problem I encountered was on my second
attempt to use SR. When it rebooted, there was
a light blue screen that just stayed there, there was
a lot of disk activity, then after awhile, no disk activity.
I hit my power button, windows restarted and all looked
well. I looked in the event viewer and it said "system
restored successfully".


-Michael



"John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net> wrote in message news:e4v0VOopGHA.524@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Has anyone gotten system restore to actually work? My one attempt to create a system restore
> point, install a program, uninstall the program (which didn't work) and then do a system
> restore, left most if not all of the registry entries behind. I could see no evidence that
> any restore took place. And yes, I rebooted after each step for good measure.
>
>
> "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:eNMGdoipGHA.4760@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Do a system restore and try again.
>>
>> "Chrick" <Chrick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:9491A70A-6462-433C-AA25-B61E9E4568B2@microsoft.com...
>>>I don't have any of the system tray icons in my taskbar nor do any of my open
>>> programs show up there. This happened suddenly and not after a
>>> software/driver load. I tried rebooting, but this did not fix the problem.
>>>
>>> I'm running Windows Vista Beta 2. Any assistance would be greatly
>>> appreciated.
>>
>>
>
>