System icons (Vista Home Premium, SP2) grayed out

I've been using Vista Home Premium for three years and today there was no
Network icon to be seen in my System Tray. This has happened before and if
I really wanted to see it I would just reboot and it would magically
reappear. I tried that today and it is still missing though I do have
internet access.

In Taskbar and Start Menu Properties only Clock is check marked and Volume,
Network and Power are grayed out.

Suggestions? Thanks, Dave Horne

I went ahead and restored the registry from a few days earlier and that
solved the problem ... at least for now. I now see the Network icon and the
Volume and Clock check boxes are now not not grayed out.

I would however appreciate any information regarding this issue. Thanks,
Dave Horne


"Dave Horne" <> wrote in message
news:...
> I've been using Vista Home Premium for three years and today there was no
> Network icon to be seen in my System Tray. This has happened before and
> if I really wanted to see it I would just reboot and it would magically
> reappear. I tried that today and it is still missing though I do have
> internet access.
>
> In Taskbar and Start Menu Properties only Clock is check marked and
> Volume, Network and Power are grayed out.
>
> Suggestions? Thanks, Dave Horne

Have you tried typing notification area in search and then checking th
box from that window

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richc4

RICHAR
*If I have helped you in any way, please show your appreciation, b
clicking the middle icon, on the upper right portion of your screen.*
*Before you take my advice make a System Restore point.*

Rich, I just now entered ... "notification area" ... as search words (that
was what you meant, right) into Start Search (in Vista) but that yieled
nothing.

As I previously wrote I solved this glitch by restoring an earlier Registry.

Thanks, Dave Horne


"richc46" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Have you tried typing notification area in search and then checking the
> box from that window?
>
>
> --
> richc46
>
> RICHARD
> *If I have helped you in any way, please show your appreciation, by
> clicking the middle icon, on the upper right portion of your screen.*
> *Before you take my advice make a System Restore point.*

If you ever have that problem again, download FixIconsClockPowerVolume ,
here:

http://www.paulsxp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=34


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"Dave Horne" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Rich, I just now entered ... "notification area" ... as search words (that
> was what you meant, right) into Start Search (in Vista) but that yieled
> nothing.
>
> As I previously wrote I solved this glitch by restoring an earlier
> Registry.
>
> Thanks, Dave Horne
>
>
> "richc46" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>
>> Have you tried typing notification area in search and then checking the
>> box from that window?
>>
>>
>> --
>> richc46
>>
>> RICHARD
>> *If I have helped you in any way, please show your appreciation, by
>> clicking the middle icon, on the upper right portion of your screen.*
>> *Before you take my advice make a System Restore point.*
>