Cant turn on/off systray icons

Lyn,

The Customize - Notification Area Icons window would be a good one, and any other screen that will not allow you to change them. Also any error messages. :)

Brink said:

Lyn,

The Customize - Notification Area Icons window would be a good one, and any other screen that will not allow you to change them. Also any error messages. :)

OK..well this first one is the Notification Area Icons, and as you can see everything is greyed out.

The second one is after I click "Turn system icons on or off". As you can see the Clock and Volume Icons are set to "On" but Network and Power are "Off" and greyed out.

When I clickk on "Customize Notification Icons it takes me back to the previous screen. When I click on "Restore deault icon behaviors" nothing at all happens.





I cant attached the 3rd screenshot so will do it after this post.

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When I click to find out why I can't turn them on I get this:

When I click to find out why I can't turn them on or off I get this:

Lyn

Ok Lyn,

From what I see, you will need to uncheck the Always show all icons on the taskbar box in the first screenshot for the Notifications Area Icons for them not to be grayed out.

On the second screenshot, it looks like you need to enable all of the ones (ex: Network) that are grayed out. Power will not ungray unless you have a battery on your computer though. It's just like the 2nd example screenshot in this tutorial. If enabling Network from this tutorial does not help, then search the registry using Find and Find Next for HideSCANetwork to see if it may be at some other location. If it is found, then delete all entries of it that is found. Afterwards, restart and see if it is ungrayed now.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

You're most welcome Lynn. That's great news. :)

Do you remember where in the registry it was for you?

Thank you Lyn for posting back with the location. :)