Missing Icons
gtghm
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Ok once in a while I come in and I notice that some or most of my icons are gone down in the windows taskbar. The icnos while blank still work.
Is there a way other than a reboot or repicking the icons that will force a warm refresh or something like that, that will bring them back?
Thanks,
"g"
Is there a way other than a reboot or repicking the icons that will force a warm refresh or something like that, that will bring them back?
Thanks,
"g"
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Never heard of that, I'll have to give that a try.
Thanks,
"g"
However you might want to try and figure out why your icons are disappearing on you in the first place. Nothing fixes a problem better than eliminating the cause.
Agreed... I was about to ask the question actually, about what makes them disapear?
They really don't disappear as in no icons, the icon button is still there and if you click on it the program comes up fine, its just the little pictorial repsentation thing goes away...
I rebooted and they are all back now and its been up for over a day and everything seems fine... It wasn't/isn't happening all of the time just every once in a while.
"g"
I renamed the drive that they were on by accident... duh...
All fixed now.
Before my last format, I had a similar problem - Icons in the taskbar (excuse me, Microsoft - I forgot, it's now the "Notification Area") would not appear at all. Since some of them were thing I had to click on occasionaly (like checking my Folding stats, for instance) I would end up rebooting.
If the problem comes back, I'll be sure and try the Tweakui thing.
LOL
:banghead: :shakehead
Format and reinstall...
:rolleyes2 :rolleyes2
Here's an idea that I have yet to try but should work well...
Do a clean install of windows, install all the drivers, programs and whatever you normally use... activate windows/office if you use the XP versions, and then create an image of the install and put it on either some CDs/DVDs or a second hard drive. That way you only have to boot into dos, run the drive image program, re-image the drive, and you'll have basically a clean install. Keep all your docs on another partition/drive, and it shouldn't be too difficult to do, either.