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System tray notification icons not showing..
I have been noticing a strange problem with my Win 7 64bit. It does not happen every day, maybe once a week or so.
When I boot up the system and the desktop loads, I noticed that all (6 ) of my security (AVG, ZA, SpyBot etc.) program icons in the system tray notification area (next to the clock) don't load. I get the network, power, volume icons but nothing else. I should see 6 icons for my security and other start up programs I have loaded, but they don't show. I have to reboot the system three or four times before the tray icons will show. The system works fine otherwise. The security programs run fine when they are loaded, so they are not the problem.
I tried a Google search for this problem and came up with this possible solution:
System icons do not appear in the notification area in Windows Vista or in Windows 7 until you restart the computer
However, this seems to only apply to the volume, power, network icons and not my program icons.
I also found this, but it is for Win xp:
Systray icons missing | Windows Problem Solver
I don't really know if any of those "fixes" can apply to Win 7.
Like I said, the problem of "missing system tray icons" only happens once a week or so. YES I DO have notification set to ON. (That is the first place I looked) So that is not the problem.
Has anyone else seen this happen in Win 7? If it is a program fault by Microsoft, is there a solution?
Thanks for your help.
Scott