Some icons not showing in system tray

Pete C. This is the craziest thing. I don't think it's the Registry Checker OR CCleaner. After restoring the files, whenever I reboot, irregardless of running Registry Checker or CCleaner, the icons are there. However, if I shut the computer completely down and the restart it, the icons are NOT there, no matter what I've been doing. Something must be happening at a complete shutdown and then cold start that is doing it. Any ideas about that?
Thanks again for all the help.

mickey918

 

From a cold start the BIOS will identify hardware and allocate resources, that may be the difference. Maybe, whatever is loaded at startup cannot be run with the registry settings (the "modified" registry).

I haven't read the whole thread. If it hasn't been suggested, try disabling startup programs in msconfig one at a time. If you can identify a program that is causing the problem, uninstall and reinstall it.

Matt
PS Has a System Restore been suggested?

 

Could the problem code be associated with a driver?

If as mattman describes, the difference between warm and cold boots is that hardware resources are reallocated resources on a cold boot, that process will involve drivers. If the software problem is within/triggered by/associated with driver code, that may explain the boot/reboot behaviour.

 

Guys:
I just fixed the problem. I got a small free program called Quick StartUp and it shows everything that gets loaded at startup and allows you to turn them off or on and change their properties. I saw the entry for SysTray.exe, and it was showing the proper location in the registry, but the location was blank. So I looked it up and it is located in C:\WINDOWS\system32\systray.exe. When I put that in the location box, everything started working again. I wonder how that got changed?

Anyway, I appreciate all the help and thank everyone a lot.

mickey918

 

The Quick Startup Software that mickey918 referred to is certainly a keeper. I like it even better than my old standby, Startup Cop, which I got many years ago before they pulled it from freeware status.

I especially like the way Quick Startup provides a link for each startup item so I can verify whether it's friend or foe and whether it's necessary or optional. It's a great little helper!