notification area

01-31-2008

The network, power and sound system icons have disapeared from the
notification area ad I can't get them back. The notification tab in the
taskbar area has these options greyed out so I cannot do it from there. I
could find find an opton in the control panel section for any of them either.

**Brink** · 01-31-2008

	Quote:	JHC
	The network, power and sound system icons have disapeared from the notification area ad I can't get them back. The notification tab in the taskbar area has these options greyed out so I cannot do it from there. I could find find an opton in the control panel section for any of them either.

Hi JHC,

This will show you how to enable them again so that they are not grayed out anymore and allow you to turn them back on.

Notification Area - System Icons

Shawn

01-31-2008

Thanks for the help! Any idea why they disappeared to begin with?

"Brink" wrote:

Quote:

>
> JHC;591676 Wrote:

	Quote:
	> > The network, power and sound system icons have disapeared from the > > notification area ad I can't get them back. The notification tab in the > > taskbar area has these options greyed out so I cannot do it from there. > > I > > could find find an opton in the control panel section for any of them > > either.

>
> Hi JHC,
>
> This will show you how to enable them again so that they are not grayed
> out anymore and allow you to turn them back on.
>
> Notification Area - System Icons
>
> Shawn
>
>
> --
> Brink
>
> *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.*
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**Brink** · 01-31-2008

Quote:

JHC

Thanks for the help! Any idea why they disappeared to begin with?

"Brink" wrote:

Quote:

>
> JHC;591676 Wrote:
>
> Hi JHC,
>
> This will show you how to enable them again so that they are not grayed
> out anymore and allow you to turn them back on.
>
> Notification Area - System Icons
>
> Shawn
>
>
> --
> Brink
>
> *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.*
> '*Vista Forums*'
> (http://www.vistax64.com/index.php?referrerid=2980)
> *Please post feedback to help others.*
>

Your welcome JHC. It can be from anything almost, but usually from a 3rd party tweak program, driver problem, a setting in the program that the icon is for, corruption, Virus or some other malware, etc....

I treat the Notification icons like the temp folder and other caches, and clear them out every so often to keep them clean and current.

Notification Icons - Reset

Shawn

05-07-2008

log out and log back in. that'll fix it. the system is too busy loading all
the bloat to handle the message to create the icons.

"JHC" wrote:

	Quote:
	> The network, power and sound system icons have disapeared from the > notification area ad I can't get them back. The notification tab in the > taskbar area has these options greyed out so I cannot do it from there. I > could find find an opton in the control panel section for any of them either.

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