Vista - NVIDIA tray ICON not available

From what I read searching google, the little NVIDIA tray icon that works
for XP, does not work for Vista
even though the process is running and its start up is in the autorun
location for vista..

It just does not appear.

This tray icon is a DLL, and I cannot launch it manually...

does anyone know a work-around? Some only suggest that I should use a 3rd
party tray icon like NVtray...
but I have tested them all.. the original NVIDIA one is the best

(PS) I am posting this both in MS newsgroups for vista and in the Nvidia
Forum

THANKS!

I have the exact same situation and I can recall somewhat that when I installed the downloaded drivers for the very first time after installing Vista [non SP1, of course] the nV tray icon DID appear and was functioning.

Over time I forgot about it and it was, I guess, hidden in the notification area, but once I had to change the resolution quickly and I expanded the hidden icons and it wasn't there!

That was about 4 months ago and after numerous re-installs, it hasn't come back yet.

Recently, I also felt the need of having multiple virtual desktops and remembered that XP nvidia drivers could let me do that. But when I searched the crappy new control panel, I found no mention of it! Arrgh! I was so disappointed! I almost felt like formatting over to XP!

Could some one please help us out here?


EDIT: Oh and 1 more thing. In XP there always was an nvidia service which has now disappeared for me in Vista. When I scoured through my startup programs I found that the service is supposed to start, but it doesn't seem to be registered properly since I can't see it in services.msc

Here's my nvidia startup entries:
RUNDLL32.EXE C:\Windows\system32\nvsvc.dll,nvsvcStart
RUNDLL32.EXE C:\Windows\system32\NvCpl.dll,NvStartup
RUNDLL32.EXE C:\Windows\system32\NvMcTray.dll,NvTaskbarInit

So as you see, both the sys tray icon and the service should be started but they are not [as mentioned earlier by kreg, there are just 2 running instances of rundll32.exe]. The middle startup entry seems to work since I get the shortcut to open control panel on desktop right click!

On Jun 8, 3:26*am, Dragor <gu...@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote:I cannot help you guys get the NVIDIA tray icon back, because it isn't
available after SP1. Maybe nVidia will release an update soon.
However, you can still get at the NVIDIA Control Panel. Right-click
the desktop and choose 'NVIDIA Control Panel'. There you will find
settings for multiple monitors.

You may also use the Windows display settings to setup and configure
multiple monitors. Right-click the desktop and choose 'Personalize',
click "Display Settings".

-solon fox