No Popup From Taskbar icons

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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
 

My Computer My Computer

OS
Windows 7
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
 

My Computer My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Dell Vostro 1000
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate x86
CPU
AMD Sempron 3600+
Graphics Card(s)
ATI Radeon Xpress 1150
Monitor(s) Displays
Generic PnP Monitor
Screen Resolution
1200 x 800
Hard Drives
WD Scorpio Blue 500 GB (WD5000BEVT)
Mouse
Logitech V320 Cordless Optical Mouse
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.
 

My Computer My Computer

OS
Windows 7
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
 

My Computer My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
HP Pavillion dv-7 1005 Tx
OS
Win 8 Release candidate 8400
CPU
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Memory
4 gigs
Graphics Card(s)
Nvidia 9600M
Sound Card
HD built-in
Monitor(s) Displays
17" Wxga
Screen Resolution
1440x900
Cooling
none
Internet Speed
45Mb down 5Mb up
What builds are you and your brother running?
 

My Computer My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Dell Vostro 1000
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate x86
CPU
AMD Sempron 3600+
Graphics Card(s)
ATI Radeon Xpress 1150
Monitor(s) Displays
Generic PnP Monitor
Screen Resolution
1200 x 800
Hard Drives
WD Scorpio Blue 500 GB (WD5000BEVT)
Mouse
Logitech V320 Cordless Optical Mouse
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.

What builds are you and your brother running?

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

My Computer My Computer

OS
Windows 7
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
:confused:
 

My Computer My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Dell Vostro 1000
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate x86
CPU
AMD Sempron 3600+
Graphics Card(s)
ATI Radeon Xpress 1150
Monitor(s) Displays
Generic PnP Monitor
Screen Resolution
1200 x 800
Hard Drives
WD Scorpio Blue 500 GB (WD5000BEVT)
Mouse
Logitech V320 Cordless Optical Mouse
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
:confused:

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.
 

My Computer My Computer

OS
Windows 7
Just saw this.
I don't have time to read through everything.
Check it out and let us know if it applies
 

My Computer My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Dell Vostro 1000
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate x86
CPU
AMD Sempron 3600+
Graphics Card(s)
ATI Radeon Xpress 1150
Monitor(s) Displays
Generic PnP Monitor
Screen Resolution
1200 x 800
Hard Drives
WD Scorpio Blue 500 GB (WD5000BEVT)
Mouse
Logitech V320 Cordless Optical Mouse
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!
 

My Computer My Computer

OS
Windows 7

My Computer My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Dell Vostro 1000
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate x86
CPU
AMD Sempron 3600+
Graphics Card(s)
ATI Radeon Xpress 1150
Monitor(s) Displays
Generic PnP Monitor
Screen Resolution
1200 x 800
Hard Drives
WD Scorpio Blue 500 GB (WD5000BEVT)
Mouse
Logitech V320 Cordless Optical Mouse
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