Windows 7: Notification area - wrong icons

BabaYaga · 13 Mar 2010

Hi Guys,

I looked into the Notification Area (pressed Customize...)
and found few weird things:

- it shows several programs that were uninstalled;
- some icons are wrong (belonging to other programs)
- some captions are incorrect

Example: the Security Centre has "power icon"
and the sign is: "scanning cookies 100%"

Is there a way to fix/refresh that?

Thanks in advance

seekermeister · 13 Mar 2010

Icon Cache - Rebuild

Brink · 13 Mar 2010

Hello BabaYaga,

Resetting the notification area icons may be able to fix this for you.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Bare Foot Kid · 13 Mar 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by Brink

Hello BabaYaga,

Resetting the notification area icons may be able to fix this for you.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thanks Brink, I started to look for that tut earlier but got sidetracked and didn't find it.

Brink · 13 Mar 2010

No problem. Anytime Ted.

BabaYaga · 14 Mar 2010

Hi Guys,

Thank you for replies

I used the advice by Brink just because it sounded "closer" to the problem I encountered since it was just the "Notification Area" went bananas
... and it worked perfectly

Probably the "resetting all icons cache" as seekermeister

suggested would do the trick too but it seemed to be for solving more "global" issues (I used the similar for XP in the past)

Both links saved into the local KB
Cheers!

Brink · 14 Mar 2010

You're welome BabaYaga. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted.

BabaYaga · 14 Mar 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by Brink

You're welome BabaYaga. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted.

I got it sorted? - you got it sorted

Wait... I have some more Qs .. hehe!

I still don't like win 7 & will not fall in love with it for sure, but I like this forum already

darkfriday · 14 Mar 2010

Thanks to all who started and posted in this thread, it's been useful to me.....cheers!

Bare Foot Kid · 14 Mar 2010

Hello BabaYaga.

I'm glad you found a solution that worked for you.

Windows 7: Notification area - wrong icons

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