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Permissions issue? No desktop icons or system tray icons.
Im a first time poster and I hope I have selected the correct category in this forum.
I have Windows 7 Home Premium, pre-installed on a new laptop ive purchased in the last month. I had it set to automatically download and apply all updates.
Within the last couple of weeks, at some point suddenly my desktop icons stopped appearing and I noticed there are no system tray icons, ie volume, network, Power.
Ive searched these forums and found instructions on how to access the "Turn System Icons On Or Off" and the only option I can change is for 'Clock'. The remaining options Volume, Network, Power, Action Center are all greyed out.
I cant understand why I dont have 'permission' to do this and I wonder if it is connected to me not seeing anything on my desktop in so far as icons.
Also, I noticed I cannot 'right-click' my desktop space, which normally would have allowed me to access display options.
In searching these forums I found some references to Administrator permissions, but my User management area says I am an administrator.
Does anyone have any feedback for something I can check/fix?
Steve