Systray Annoyance

Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Event Viewer

Service errors are under System, app errors under Application. All events are timestamped, so you can see which ones occurred during Windows startup.

As for the registry setting, open Start->Run and type regedt32 and click OK

Navigate your way to the registry key I gave you. HKLM means HKEY_Local_Machine. Be careful when you mess with registry, because you can break things there.

Much Thanks for the info... No errors are seen for last few days bootups in Event viewer, in any of the them...

Gonna check the registry setting and reply to that separately..

The path you supplied: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon\RunLogonScriptSync

I can get all the way to WinLogon, but there is no option
RunLogonScriptSync in WinLogon....

???????

Just create a new dword named RunLogonScriptSync and set it to 1

could you please show me what the resulting line should look like?
Reason why I'm asking.... There are binary and text logos on the line, and some other commands that I'm not clear on....
I am not certain how to add the logos.... and other data....
I do have Tweak UI ver 2.00.1.0... Could I more easily add it that way? By the way, XP Home with all patches....
(Yeah, I'm approaching this carefully!)

Figured out how to enter it.... but...

Decimal or Hexidecimal 1 ?

This can be set using xteq x-setup.

Navigate to the WinLogon subkey. Right click in the rigt half of the windiw, choose new->DWORD value. Give it a name (RunLogonScriptSync). Then double click it and give it a value of 1.

Binary, octal, decimal, hexadecimal and any other base 1 are all the same.

DARN!

I tried it.... No difference.....

????????

I never said I knew how I fixed it..

Well, I appreciate your attempt!!! Heck of a lot better than Microsoft's reply "Go ask the guy who built your computer... Gateway!" Or Gateway's suggestion "If you go back to an earlier date, and it works, fine... If not, we haven't a clue!"

XP Pro icons randomly not displaying in systray.

I also have a problem with XP (Pro in this case) randomly not displaying systray icons. I have been mucking around with it for weeks and have not got any success whatsoever.

I am using XP Pro SP1 (the SP1 update made no difference to the above problem).

One thing I have noticed, however, is that when I turn my computer on there will nearly always be some systray icons missing. If I then Log Off (NOT restart) and log back on as the same user (or different user for that matter), all the icons that are supposed to display in the systray do without fail. Go figure!

Seriously, though, this might give someone out there more of a clue as to what the problem might be.

Hello,

i have the same problem with my win xp pro for a month or so and i get verry silly of it. i didn't find any explanation for it. couldn't microsoft get a patch for it?
logout en relogin and all my icons are there.

Greetz

Since I reinstalled winxp, I have this problem also. This is the first time its happened to me, and I've done many installs. I think reinstalling would fix it, but I'd really like to find out why it happens. It does seem to be connected with the way in which windows boots up and loads drivers, services, etc. As mentioned, logging off and then back on will cause the systray icons to reappear, thereby showing that the issue is with loading at windows startup, rather that corrupt files or configuration settings. I'll post back if I stumble on a solution that works consistently. Microsoft don't even acknowledge the problem as searching their knowledge base turned up nothing.

I have noticed this on a number of systems, seems that it may be the order that things are being started at startup, maybe some of them take too long so it gets skipped or something, I'm not sure. In most cases these systems have a lot of services starting with Windows, and usually have a lot of system tray icons to load. Usually a few of them will fail to load. The only fix I have found is to cut down on the number of services that start with Windows, then turn on the things you need after Windows loads. Many times when I was looking into this for clients, I found out that they never used many of the things that were loading and didn't need some of the services that are started at startup.

I have found some cases where minimizing the number of startup services did not completely fix the problem, there would occasionally be one or more icons that failed to show.

My advice is to look through, see what you don't need, stop those things from loading, see if it fixes the problem. If not, try stopping some that you could maybe start after Windows loads, like IMs and such. It may not work for everyone, but it does work in some cases.

Thanks for all the replies

The many replies I received re: systray icons loading erratically was great and thankyou for your replies. It's nice to know that I'm far from the only one with this annoying problem.

As far as reducing some of the programs/services that load at startup might be one solution, but unfortunately I quite often skip from one to the other so this is not an option. Basically it's a convenience that I've got used to; but only after I log off, then back on again.

I also have looked through Microsoft's web site and true, it isn't even recognised as a problem.

All I have to say is this, Bill Gates, "We consumers pay enough for your stinking monopilised software, so how about fixing it. OK, so you don't recognise it as a problem. Probably the only reason you don't is because some component(s) in windows is not quite up to the task of loading the programs/services because it has a timeout problem and would cost too much to redesign. We will all wait with baited breath for when you release a secretive patch; probably included in one of your infamous Security Patches."
:dead:

I tried reinstalling (upgrade) winxp to see if things would fix themselves, but no, the same issue occurs. It's not a common issue, and I've only had this problem once, and I've done dozens of installs. I reformatted and reinstalled and everything was fine this time. Looks like this is the best bet for anyone suffering from this issue, as there appears to be no other solution available at this time.

I've worked on hundreds of PCs, many with XP, and I can say I've never seen this problem... Including my own computers here which I know I've had several dozen of installations of XP on.

I've also installed XP many times, including several times on my own machine, and have never come across the problem. Lucky for me, the problem exists on my machine, not one of my clients, as they would not respond very well to me telling them to simply log off and then log back on.

Hopefully, someone out there will stumple across the solution.

Basically, I've given up trying to fix it for the time being. Every time I start my computer I log off and then back on. Only takes about 20-30 seconds to do, but it's still very annoying nonetheless. :rolleyes:

To Nic,

I might have to consider a re-install, but I will have to purchase an upgrade of XP with SP1. My original XP disk goes right back to when XP was first released which would involve lots of downloading from Microsoft to get everything back up to date.

Additionally, if I do this, I would like to do a completely clean install (reformat the hard drives, etc...), but am NOT looking forward to getting all my applications back on and set back up. This was the main reason for me seeking a solution on this forum that didn't involve a re-installation.

Just download the sp1 update from microsoft. You can even slipstrean the service pack into your original files and burn a winxpsp1 cd from it, so you don't need another copy.