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Taskbar problem: Missing icons

The_Fire

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Hi everyone, I've gotten myself a little problem I would like to have your input on.
It seems that some of my icons in my task bar is missing.
As you can see in the attached image, it does show some icons, but it's missing at least 2 icons from normal running.
One is my WAMP php testserver, which normally run on start up, and my Yahoo messenger (ok, you can stop laughing now).
I tried to reinstall WAMP, but to no avail. It installed properly, even nested itself in the task bar, but as soon as I rebooted, it disappeared from the taskbar again. Same thing with YIM.
The only thing I can blame right now is installing the latest version Scype (de-installed it again), CCleaner and, perhaps, an update of Spybot Search and Destroy (runs automatically on start up).
Tried de-installing all the mentioned programs, no luck.

Anyone have an idea on what is happening?
 

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Are WAMP and Yahoo still running? can you see them in Task Manager? If Explorer crashes on me some of those icons don't come back until I reboot. Explorer would have to be crashing during start up for you though.

If you click Start>Run and type 'msconfig' can you find WAMP and Yahoo in the Startup Tab?
 
I have to assume this is a bug in Windows. It happens to me all the time. Hopefully, this will work for you: right click on the taskbar, click "Properties", turn on "Auto-hide the taskbar", "Apply", turn off "Auto-hide the taskbar", "OK". I haven't found any other way to get the taskbar to re-layout properly.
 
The_Fire said:
Hi everyone, I've gotten myself a little problem I would like to have your input on.
It seems that some of my icons in my task bar is missing.
As you can see in the attached image, it does show some icons, but it's missing at least 2 icons from normal running.
One is my WAMP php testserver, which normally run on start up, and my Yahoo messenger (ok, you can stop laughing now).
I tried to reinstall WAMP, but to no avail. It installed properly, even nested itself in the task bar, but as soon as I rebooted, it disappeared from the taskbar again. Same thing with YIM.
The only thing I can blame right now is installing the latest version Scype (de-installed it again), CCleaner and, perhaps, an update of Spybot Search and Destroy (runs automatically on start up).
Tried de-installing all the mentioned programs, no luck.

Anyone have an idea on what is happening?
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Sure there isn't a setting "display icon in task bar" you've set to "no"?
 
BenK said:
Are WAMP and Yahoo still running? can you see them in Task Manager? If Explorer crashes on me some of those icons don't come back until I reboot. Explorer would have to be crashing during start up for you though.

If you click Start>Run and type 'msconfig' can you find WAMP and Yahoo in the Startup Tab?
Click to expand...

Ok, Yahoo is missing from the startup tab, but WAMP is there. Even after I disabled Spybot and CCleaner I can't see the icon. WAMP seems to work ok (no problem with accessing Localhost) but it bugs me as I cannot access the extensions such as PHPMyAdmin without the foldout menu of the icon.

Modified said:
I have to assume this is a bug in Windows. It happens to me all the time. Hopefully, this will work for you: right click on the taskbar, click "Properties", turn on "Auto-hide the taskbar", "Apply", turn off "Auto-hide the taskbar", "OK". I haven't found any other way to get the taskbar to re-layout properly.
Click to expand...

Tried that, didn't work.

Darat said:
Sure there isn't a setting "display icon in task bar" you've set to "no"?
Click to expand...

Yes. With WAMP thats not an issue. It's forced. The only thing you can choose is wether or not to run the server on start up which I have set to "Yes".....
 
Try using something like TweakUI and repair all icons - mind you when it is just a missing icon you normally see a blank gap but still worth a try.
 
Ok, I managed to resolve the problem by doing a system restore to a recovery point before the problems showed itself.
Turns out that Visual Developer didn't clean up when it was uninstalled and left behind some sort of debugging software which also slowed the system down considerably. I am SO not installing that piece of microsoft blowware again......

Thanks to everyone for their help.
 
The Fire: "cool, Now my system is working perfectly again...."
Updater: "You've got critical updates for your system. Do you want to install IE7?"
The Fire: "Why not."
Systems Tray: "Well, **** you! I don't want to show all of your icons anymore!"
The Fire: "WHAT DA ****?!"
*Does a system roll back*
Updater: "You've got critical updates for your system. Do you want to install IE7?"
The Fire: "**** NO!!"


In other words: Problem now located. If anyone else have the same problem, try uninstalling your IE7......I HATE Microsoft.
 
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