Windows 7 Notifications not showing for systray applications


  1. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #1

    Windows 7 Notifications not showing for systray applications


    All,

    I found the discussion below and this is the exact problem I am having.

    https://www.sevenforums.com/general-d...tion-area.html

    I have tried all the normal Action Center stuff like enabling and disabling notifications, etc. Also have done the Group Policy thing. I am basically on a new install of Windows 7 so it hasn't been thrashed yet.

    So to summarize, I am not getting any notifications for programs that are accessible from the SysTray. The behavior is that when any of the programs wants to show a notification, the TaskBar (which is set to Auto HIde) acts like the notifcation is there and stays up (won't Auto Hide) until I left or right click the icon that is trying to display the notification. So the Taskbar *thinks* there is a notification there but it is not displayed. This is driving me nuts. The only solution I have which is not really a solution is to select "Hide icons and notifications" for the app which removes it from the SysTray. FWIW, I have a roughly identical system (same OS, etc) with the exact same version of the software installed and running and the Notifications show up and work perfectly.

    As a related example, when I plug in an external device, a little notification should pop up saying something like "The device is installed and ready for use". I hear all the beeping and stuff but no little notification pops up.

    I have tried unistalling the application, same behavior. I just don't know what else to do. So I thought maybe crowd sourcing an answer would help. Thanks in advance.

    Paul
      My Computer


  2. Posts : 1,965
    win 7 X64 Ultimate SP1
       #2

    Default Behaviour


    I imagine you have tried this. But I'll mention it any how.
    Go to:
    Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Notification Area Icons

    you will see a clickable "restore default icon behaviors" click it and check the results.
      My Computer


  3. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Thanks for the response.

    Yes I did try that. I think I have now narrowed it down to what happened. Very unpleasant. The notifications stopped showing up (and other odd things) right after I installed "Core Temp" and its associated gadget. The problem is I think I remember pulling the install exe from a site other than ALCPU website (can't remember).

    Anyway, some weird Network64 program got installed and trashed all my restore points. I tried to research how to remove it but didn't find much on the web. I did find others that had the same issue but no resolution. MalwareBytes and Microsoft Security Essentials did not detect it. All restore points I created "after" Network64 installed itself worked great, but those before it all failed (i.e. I could not roll back to a clean registry).

    Anyway, given that I do not know to what extent this Network64 thing has trashed my system, I rolled back to a Disk Image I created about a week ago. That seems to have cleared things up but I lost a weeks worth of work spent building the system. Oh well, live and learn.

    Paul
      My Computer


  4. Posts : 1,965
    win 7 X64 Ultimate SP1
       #4

    Lot of Work


    Sounds as if you have figured it out. Hope your image wasn't really old, that would help. The main part of live and learn is learn.
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