Windows 7: Notification Area problems

Hey guys.. got a question for you.

OK so I've had Windows 7 RC on a Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop ever since it came out. Everything has been working great. But one day I noticed the notification area was different. The color had become darker and anytime I tried to customize the behavior of the notifications, explorer.exe stops working and as to be restarted. Any ideas on how to fix this?



Looks like this:

hey onesevenone

Did you skin this or do some other visual effect change?

Ken

Thanks for the quick reply Ken!
No skins or anything like that. I can change the style to another aero theme and the notification area is still darkened. But I did notice that if I change it to a classic theme, it's all one color.

That is really strange........

Have you installed anything that messes with the Taskbar?

~Lordbob

Hi onesevenone, welcome to the forums.

There could have been some issue with system files.

If you run command prompt as administrator (Start Menu - type cmd - right-click cmd and select 'Run as Administrator'). From there you can run sfc /scannow, this will check your system file integrity for errors & possible corruption. If issues are found then Windows will restore the affected file.

Hope this help




Jeff