The old 'i'll hide your tray icon' ploy

[petrossa]

Anyone else noted that the tray icons come and go, no matter how you define them in the Customize panel?

Mostly when restoring a window and then minimizing it to tray again.
A Show Icon and notifications becomes a Only notifications again.

 

[jc4gavejc]

hmm didn't notice.. what build are you running?

 

[Antman]

It is quite stable on my install of 7600.16384

 

[evo21]

Works fine here too. The problem is on your side.

 

[TheVinesKid]

I've never had that problem, in any build.
What icons of yours are doing this? And what build are you running?

 

[petrossa]

hmm didn't notice.. what build are you running?

7600 16385. Happened quite often in Vista too; maybe it's the apps i'm using then

 

[TheVinesKid]

7600 16385. Happened quite often in Vista too; maybe it's the apps i'm using then

Thats possible. Which icons are doing it? All of them?
And what apps do you run?

 

[petrossa]

Thats possible. Which icons are doing it? All of them?
And what apps do you run?

my mailclient, mailwasher, Process Lasso, sometimes livemail are the icons i see disappearing. The rest are hidden and stay hidden.

 

[Mani]

7600 16385. Happened quite often in Vista too; maybe it's the apps i'm using then

This happened to me all the time in XP and Vista! It really pis*** me off...

Currently doesn't on Win7, it better stay that way...

 

[petrossa]

This happened to me all the time in XP and Vista! It really pis*** me off...

Currently doesn't on Win7, it better stay that way...

yeah exactly my thoughts. In vista i got so annoyed to reset the hide/unhide icons i just gave up trying and took the daily gamble what would change this time.

Thats why i was it doing the same in 7

 

[mickey megabyte]

maybe it's the particular apps that are badly behaved and need to be rewritten - my icons remember what i want them to do, so i don't think it's 7.

 

[Muad Dib]

And I thought I was crazy. Ok, keep the comments down.

It happened to me ALL the time in XP. Not so much in Vista, And I have not noticed it in W7, yet.

And yes it is incredibly annoying.

I searched and tried different solutions and never identified the culprit.

But as has been mentioned, in moving from XP>Vista>W7 (actually triple booting right now) not only did the OS change but my apps and/or the app versions changed.

I always suspected it was an app specific to me as it did not/does not occur on any of my clients XP or Vista boxes (thank goodness).

 

[Kari]

Happens to me ONLY with the little smiley faces ment be used when giving feedback about Office 2010 Tech Preview.

Sometimes they appear after the boot, sometimes not.

 

[petrossa]

Well in one way i'm happy there's other sufferers out there, as they say shared suffering is double the fun.:sarc:
the Smilies i uninstalled immediately, but they had the nasty habit of changing from hidden to show all the time.

So i guess it's still OS related, with Vista i've already tried all the tricks (reg hacking whatever) to no avail.

Oh well, if that's the worst ....

 

[billdo]

It happened to me a few times, but once again I was able to trace the problem back to registry/temp file cleaning program.In my case it was CCleaner.Just had to adjust cleaning settings and never had issue again.

 

[petrossa]

It happened to me a few times, but once again I was able to trace the problem back to registry/temp file cleaning program.In my case it was CCleaner.Just had to adjust cleaning settings and never had issue again.

yes i did that too with Vista (though not with ccleaner) but the issue kept returning after a while. I guess that it's the frequency with which you min to tray.

I hate a cluttered desktop, but i also don't like lot's of icons on the taskbar. So i minimize most to the tray. It's pretty full at times, but i only keep the most frequently used icons visible.

Though the issue is less pronounced then with Vista so there is progress

 

[TheVinesKid]

did you do an upgrade install from Windows Vista?

 

[petrossa]

did you do an upgrade install from Windows Vista?

no it's a double boot. I seem to notice a pattern though. It seems that apps where you can set the Titlebar Close button to minimize to tray are the most prone to disappearing from the tray.

Sofar Mailwasher, Speedfan and Comodo disappeared regularly.