How to fix system tray icons missing in vista and xp
Trouble:
Many a times when the windows boot, the tray icons like volume control icon, network status icon, safely remove hardware icon etc. which should be visible in the tray are not visible properly.
In such a case, many a times you will find volume control missing, or you will find Safely remove hardware icon missing, or any other useful tray icon which you frequently use.
Why are tray icons not loaded properly?
At the time when windows is booting, there are many processes which are simultaneously being launched. All these are running in parallel waiting for the CPU turn. Some times when the CPU is busy with some processes, windows misses to properly load the icons.
Solution for System Tray Icon Missing Problem:
The fix is simple, whenever you find that the tray icons are not properly loaded, you can restart explorer task. This will freshly build all the tray, task-bar and desktop icons.
1.To restart the windows explorer, there is a small windows-batch file
2.Just Open the Notepad and copy & Paste the Below thing in it,
@echo off
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
explorer.exe
3.Then save it as “tray.batâ€
4.Double-click on this file and it will restart the windows explorer for you. After this, all the tray icons will be loaded properly.
or
Open the command prompt and type the following two commands one by one:
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
explorer.exe
That’s it !!! .The Tray icons will be Loaded Properly.
