Solved System Icons Disabled. Unable to change settings

[hsmcdonald]

Hi,

I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit

Having a problem with System Icons not showing. Been really frustrating trying to resolve. I actually had this problem before and was able to get it working using the registry overrides on this site, but they dont work now for some reason. I have attached my screenshots. One shows the 'Always show Notification Icons...' greyed out and no icons listed on the Manage notification icons window (you will also notice no system icons are displayed). The other shows all system icons greyed out except for the Clock

Here are the steps I have done:

1) Enabled the 'hidden' Administrator account as seen here:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/507-built-administrator-account-enable-disable.html

2) As this Administrator account, Run several Malware/Virus/Rootkit scans from numerous vendors, no issues found

3) Used the registry options to try to enable notification area settings

How to Enable or Disable Changing "Notification Area Icons" Settings in Windows 7

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/173668-notification-area-icons-settings-enable-disable.html

4) Used the registry options for each system icon to enable

How to Enable or Disable Windows 7 Notification System Icons

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/19085-system-icons-enable-disable.html

After all the steps above, including the Malware/Virus scan - still greyed out options.

Does someone have some advice on anything else I can try?

Steve

 

[Brink]

Hello Steve,

Double check by using step 1 in OPTION ONE of the tutorial below to see if this may the issue instead. It looks closer to how your screenshots look.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/158852-notification-area-add-remove.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[hsmcdonald]

Shawn, that did the trick - thanks so much!

 

[Brink]

That's great news. You're most welcome.