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Answer» My notification buttons (the ones that appear to the left of the clock at the bottom right) have disappeared for no reason. I cannot do anything to make them reappear. Does anyone know how to fix this? Right-click on the taskbar. Choose "toolbars" - "quick launch". After it appears, lock the taskbar. Quick launch is ALREADY checked; always has been. The settings on this computer are identical to the settings on my other computer, which displays all the noticifation icons. I never made any changes to the configuration or settings but one day thye just weren't there. But you can't see the quick launch bar, correct? Okay, try this. Unlock the taskbar. Do you see a vertical bar? If so, drag it to the "wide" side of the taskbar. If still no joy, you might want to run a full system scan with both your AV and MalwareBytes just to rule out malware before we proceed any further. Quote from: Allan on June 22, 2010, 07:01:04 AM But you can't see the quick launch bar, correct? Okay, try this. Unlock the taskbar. Do you see a vertical bar? If so, drag it to the "wide" side of the taskbar. When I toggle quick launch on and off, all it does is turn off and on the icons that appear next to the statr MENU. The icons that are usually next to the clock (volume, norton, updates, etc.) will not appear no matter what. I am running a comprehensive scan now with norton 360. Wait a sec - so you are saying that the quicklaunch icons are visible but the normal icons in the notification area are not? If that's the case: 1) Right-click on Start - then Properties - then Taskbar TAB. Make sure "hide inactive icons" is not checked 2) Have you recently made any changes to the desktop theme? 3) Anything different since the last time things worked properly (new hw, sw, virus, error, etc)? Quote from: Allan on June 22, 2010, 07:43:47 AM Wait a sec - so you are saying that the quicklaunch icons are visible but the normal icons in the notification area are not? If that's the case: 1) I can check and uncheck it without making any difference - either way, none of the icons appear. On my other computer I have this OPTION checked but it always shows the ones I customized as "Always show." 2) No. 3) Not that I know of. They were there one minute and gone the next, kind of like how my router and internet connection were working one minute and not the next. Baffling And neither your AV nor MalwareBytes showed any PROBLEMS? Well, here are some thoughts: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/notification-area-icons-missing-in-vista/ http://winhlp.com/node/16 http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/01/04/system-tray-icon-missing-from-system-tray-in-windows-xp/ Quote from: Allan on June 22, 2010, 10:31:38 AM And neither your AV nor MalwareBytes showed any problems? You did it Thanks! That third link had the solution. You're welcome. Sorry it took so long to get to the right answer, but I'm glad we finally got there. |
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