Notification area icons missing, even after reset..!

It's weird... my Win7 system does not do this.. but my wife's system notification icons for Win7 disappear on a regular basis. Ran virus scan... found nothing.

Try the following link from SevenForums:

Icon Cache - Rebuild

If you read the thread, you'll know I tried this as well as other possible fix here already.

VistaKing said:

Did you try creating the New Account advice ? I think that got ignored.

I talked about that, read my earlier post. Boobah yes restarting explorer does fix but I wouldn't call this a good fix as it makes trouble with other icons/apps..

unko said:

If you read the thread, you'll know I tried this as well as other possible fix here already.

Unko,
Sorry to hear that you're having so many problems with your system icons.

Thanks for your reply.... if that was your reply to my post....

I checked the thread before I posted, and rechecked today.... The link I provided was not suggested to you before.


There are a couple of similar links provided by VistaKing on pg. 3:

• Notification Area Icons - Reset Notification Area Icons - Reset
• Notification Area Icons - Hide or Show System Icons and Notifications Notification Area Icons - Hide or Show System Icons and Notifications

... They may or may not work... dunno as I never tried them. They mess with your registry keys. Those aren't the same as the one above suggested by me (and works for me)...

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Just in case you missed it for some reason, for convenience, the solution document link is reposted here. It is by the same SevenForums author who wrote the documents from the other two links. He deletes some cache file or other, as described in the following link/document:

• Icon Cache - Rebuild

I tried them all. As said on post 1, only cleaner helps BUT after few restart the issue is back.

Those damn windows update! Downloading 123mb and ending up with 1gb less after reboot and caches cleaned?!

Anyways i'll let you know what happens, for now, after ~3 reboots, the icons are still all here and in order, apparently.

I can't get rid of that damn issue..