No Popup From Taskbar icons

I have been having this problem for as long as i have Win 7, i think, but never gave it much importance, but now i am looking to fix it.

I do not receive popup notifications from the taskbar icons. For example, let's say my download manager has completed a download, it should popup out a notification balloon saying it has finished the download, but it does not happen for me. Softwares like uTorrent and OpenVPN becomes in accessible to double-click and are only accessible with the right click.

My brother has Win 7 too and he does not have this problem. How can i fix this? Below are my specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 @3.2Ghz
Gigabyte P965-DS3
ATi HD4850
Twinmos 3x1GB DDR2 800Mhz + 1GB OCZ 800 MHz
Zalman 9700
Creative Audigy2 ZS
Zalman 5.1 Headphones
250GB Seagate SATA-II 7200.10 8MB
Enermax 535W PSU

Click the up bar in the notification area -> then customize -> make sure the drop downs for your program doesn't say hide icon and notifications

redsoxm16 said:

Click the up bar in the notification area -> then customize -> make sure the drop downs for your program doesn't say hide icon and notifications

Nope. For the icons i want to be shown with notifications, the settings are appropriately selected. I have checked all settings in that area, and there is nothing that would solve my problem.

Thanks for the quick reply.

mufaa said:

I have been having this problem for as long as i have Win 7, i think, but never gave it much importance, but now i am looking to fix it.

I do not receive popup notifications from the taskbar icons. For example, let's say my download manager has completed a download, it should popup out a notification balloon saying it has finished the download, but it does not happen for me. Softwares like uTorrent and OpenVPN becomes in accessible to double-click and are only accessible with the right click.

My brother has Win 7 too and he does not have this problem. How can i fix this? Below are my specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 @3.2Ghz
Gigabyte P965-DS3
ATi HD4850
Twinmos 3x1GB DDR2 800Mhz + 1GB OCZ 800 MHz
Zalman 9700
Creative Audigy2 ZS
Zalman 5.1 Headphones
250GB Seagate SATA-II 7200.10 8MB
Enermax 535W PSU

This is too simple to be the problem but do you have all icons showing in sys tray?
Ken

What builds are you and your brother running?

zigzag3143 said:

This is too simple to be the problem but do you have all icons showing in sys tray?
Ken

Nope, not all icons. Just icons that i want to be shown with 'Show icon and notification' selected for them.

redsoxm16 said:

What builds are you and your brother running?

We are running RC build MS officially released a while back.

We are running RC build MS officially released a while back.

Ok, i remember having that problem with utorrent in either the RC build or 7201.
Utorrent notifications are working just fine for me in 7260

redsoxm16 said:

Ok, i remember having that problem with utorrent in either the RC build or 7201.
Utorrent notifications are working just fine for me in 7260

But the problem is not for uTorrent alone. It occurs for anything that gives out a notification balloon, like USB drives plug in, failure to connect to network drives, etc.

Just saw this.
I don't have time to read through everything.
Check it out and let us know if it applies

redsoxm16 said:

Just saw this.
I don't have time to read through everything.
Check it out and let us know if it applies

Yes! That worked!! Awesome, thanks a lot man! Thanks a ton!

I download .reg file from the site and ran it. Log off and on again, and i now i can see the balloons. Cool. Thanks once again, man!

Thanks to all for the help! Cheers!