Vista Tutorial - Customize notification icons settings lost after a few hours.

01-31-2008

Hi,

I have a feeling I am customizing notification icons several times a
day. A couple of hours after I have done it an icon which I have set to
"always show" is gone, and when I check it's set back to "Hide when
inactive". It's never the other way around, it's always the "always
show" setting which gets lost.

Does anyone here know why this happens?

--
//ceed

**Brink** · 01-31-2008

Quote: Originally Posted by ceed

Hi,

I have a feeling I am customizing notification icons several times a
day. A couple of hours after I have done it an icon which I have set to
"always show" is gone, and when I check it's set back to "Hide when
inactive". It's never the other way around, it's always the "always
show" setting which gets lost.

Does anyone here know why this happens?

--
//ceed

Hi ceed,

See if resetting the Notification icons will help keep it set to what you want afterwards.

Notification Icons - Reset

I know duh, you most likely have, but did you click OK after you changed it to "Always Show" to apply the change?

Notification Icons - Customize

Shawn

02-01-2008

Can you be more specific on which apps are doing this? Is all of them or is
it a specific application in the bar?

For instance, some applications "refresh" in the notification area and Vista
seems to see this as a new application and setting the view to default.

A specific example is some security software like Norton, the icon will
"refresh" and reset to hide when inactive.

"ceed" wrote:

Quote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a feeling I am customizing notification icons several times a
> day. A couple of hours after I have done it an icon which I have set to
> "always show" is gone, and when I check it's set back to "Hide when
> inactive". It's never the other way around, it's always the "always
> show" setting which gets lost.
>
> Does anyone here know why this happens?
>
> --
> //ceed
>

01-31-2008	#1 (permalink)
ceed Guest n/a posts	Customize notification icons settings lost after a few hours. Hi, I have a feeling I am customizing notification icons several times a day. A couple of hours after I have done it an icon which I have set to "always show" is gone, and when I check it's set back to "Hide when inactive". It's never the other way around, it's always the "always show" setting which gets lost. Does anyone here know why this happens? -- //ceed
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01-31-2008	#2 (permalink)
Brink Administrator Join Date: Apr 2007 Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 (7600) x64 25,813 posts	Re: Customize notification icons settings lost after a few hours. Quote: Originally Posted by ceed Hi, I have a feeling I am customizing notification icons several times a day. A couple of hours after I have done it an icon which I have set to "always show" is gone, and when I check it's set back to "Hide when inactive". It's never the other way around, it's always the "always show" setting which gets lost. Does anyone here know why this happens? -- //ceed Hi ceed, See if resetting the Notification icons will help keep it set to what you want afterwards. Notification Icons - Reset I know duh, you most likely have, but did you click OK after you changed it to "Always Show" to apply the change? Notification Icons - Customize Shawn
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02-01-2008	#3 (permalink)
romanom Guest n/a posts	RE: Customize notification icons settings lost after a few hours. Can you be more specific on which apps are doing this? Is all of them or is it a specific application in the bar? For instance, some applications "refresh" in the notification area and Vista seems to see this as a new application and setting the view to default. A specific example is some security software like Norton, the icon will "refresh" and reset to hide when inactive. "ceed" wrote: Quote: > Hi, > > I have a feeling I am customizing notification icons several times a > day. A couple of hours after I have done it an icon which I have set to > "always show" is gone, and when I check it's set back to "Hide when > inactive". It's never the other way around, it's always the "always > show" setting which gets lost. > > Does anyone here know why this happens? > > -- > //ceed >
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