How to "repair" hidden/disappeared SysTray icons?

Hi pstein,

pstein said:

Occasionally it happens that most of my SysTray icons disappear resp. are hidden.

How can I let them re-appear (beside re-boot my 64bit Win7) system?

Does this help => Notification Area Icons - Reset.

I am blocked from pics, school firewall, are those also from the long grey bar (non-notification area)?

Am not blocked, don't see pics. He's talking about the systray to the right of the taskbar.

When notification icons misbehave, that's not an easy area of Windows to fix, unless somebody invented a way to do so :) I found a way to "mirror" (backup-copy) the long grey bar taskbar icons, thus giving me the easy way to bring them back onto that area, but, not the notification icons.

RolandJS said:

When notification icons misbehave, that's not an easy area of Windows to fix, unless somebody invented a way to do so :) I found a way to "mirror" (backup-copy) the long grey bar taskbar icons, thus giving me the easy way to bring them back onto that area, but, not the notification icons.

Did you read Paul's directions?
The systray, now called the Notification area, is for programs running in the background, and the taskbar icons (presumably gray on your machine,) are only for visible windows.

I see I did not word that well. Lettuce romaine accurate:
When notification icons in the SysTray misbehave, that's not an easy area of Windows to fix, unless somebody invented a way to do so :) I have not found any easy for that area.
Now, for the other area, the long grey taskbar holding "Pin To Taskbar" collection of icons, I found a way to "mirror" (i.e. making a backup-copy of) the Pin-To-Taskbar icons in that long grey bar, thus giving me the easy way to bring them back onto that area. If anyone wants to know, can spell out the recovery process.

(OT--I did away with the "Pin to taskbar" years ago. And though it's gray on your machine, on this machine it's green, and my other ones it's lavender, because I make my own color schemes. Better to just call it the Taskbar)

Back to Systray icons: I control them here:
Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Notification Area Icons

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Snick said:

Notification Area Icon Cleaner x64
Rebuild Notification Area Icon Database x64
Tested by me.