The old 'i'll hide your tray icon' ploy

maybe it's the particular apps that are badly behaved and need to be rewritten - my icons remember what i want them to do, so i don't think it's 7.

Well in one way i'm happy there's other sufferers out there, as they say shared suffering is double the fun.
the Smilies i uninstalled immediately, but they had the nasty habit of changing from hidden to show all the time.

So i guess it's still OS related, with Vista i've already tried all the tricks (reg hacking whatever) to no avail.

Oh well, if that's the worst ....

It happened to me a few times, but once again I was able to trace the problem back to registry/temp file cleaning program.In my case it was CCleaner.Just had to adjust cleaning settings and never had issue again.

billdo said:

It happened to me a few times, but once again I was able to trace the problem back to registry/temp file cleaning program.In my case it was CCleaner.Just had to adjust cleaning settings and never had issue again.

yes i did that too with Vista (though not with ccleaner) but the issue kept returning after a while. I guess that it's the frequency with which you min to tray.

I hate a cluttered desktop, but i also don't like lot's of icons on the taskbar. So i minimize most to the tray. It's pretty full at times, but i only keep the most frequently used icons visible.

Though the issue is less pronounced then with Vista so there is progress

TheVinesKid said:

did you do an upgrade install from Windows Vista?

no it's a double boot. I seem to notice a pattern though. It seems that apps where you can set the Titlebar Close button to minimize to tray are the most prone to disappearing from the tray.

Sofar Mailwasher, Speedfan and Comodo disappeared regularly.