Taskbar Icons

[Jeff Gaines]

I am having problems making my Taskbar Icon settings stick, one particular
app now has several entries saying 'Show Icons and Notifications' but
every time I re-boot the machine these entries are ignored and a new entry
added 'Show Notifications Only'.

Is anybody else seeing this behaviour? Can it be fixed?

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

I am having problems making my Taskbar Icon settings stick, one
particular app now has several entries saying 'Show Icons and
Notifications' but every time I re-boot the machine these entries are
ignored and a new entry added 'Show Notifications Only'.

Is anybody else seeing this behaviour? Can it be fixed?

Yes, I have the same problem. I have no idea how to solve it.

 

[Augustus]

I am having problems making my Taskbar Icon settings stick, one particular
app now has several entries saying 'Show Icons and Notifications' but
every time I re-boot the machine these entries are ignored and a new entry
added 'Show Notifications Only'.

Is anybody else seeing this behaviour? Can it be fixed?

It depends....I've seen some apps behave like this and not display
notifications in the system tray in Windows 7 unless they are run in
compatibility mode for Vista or XP. Try this first and see if they behave.
I've seen the system tray behavior changed by previous app installs putting
their own systray notifications into the registry, and somehow changing the
behavior of the subsequent installs. Best solution for this is to reset the
default settings by editing the registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \
Classes \ Local Settings \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \
TrayNotify) and deleting the Iconstreams and the PastIconsStream values.
Exit the registry editor. Set the tray notifications again from the systray
or control panel. One can usually get proper behavior from one approach or
the other.

 

[Jeff Gaines]

It depends....I've seen some apps behave like this and not display
notifications in the system tray in Windows 7 unless they are run in
compatibility mode for Vista or XP. Try this first and see if they
behave. I've seen the system tray behavior changed by previous app
installs putting their own systray notifications into the registry, and
somehow changing the behavior of the subsequent installs. Best solution
for this is to reset the default settings by editing the registry
(HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Classes \ Local Settings \ Software \
Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ TrayNotify) and deleting the
Iconstreams and the PastIconsStream values. Exit the registry editor. Set
the tray notifications again from the systray or control panel. One can
usually get proper behavior from one approach or the other.

Many thanks, Augustus

I have tried XP-SP3 compatibility mode and deleted the registry keys but
it hasn't survived a re-boot. Perhaps we need to wait for SP1? In the
meantime I've just turned the icons on, there aren't many of them.