[Ham-Computers] Lost system tray

[Ray, W4BYG]

I would like to thank those that took time to respond to my query.

Most of what was suggested I had done, but I did it again.  No dice.  I 
booted up again today and the same problem occurred.  After fiddling 
around trying to overcome the problem and about 10 minutes later, the 
systray seemed to come back on it's own.

My shack is remote from my house.  I use a wireless card for internet 
connections to a router in my house.  The systray did not show the icon 
in the system tray as it usually does and initially, plus  I had no 
wireless connectivity.   Could not get "Control panel>network 
connections" to display anything either.  However in a few minutes the 
wireless card connected on it's own.  Not sure what I did if anything 
that caused it.

However, I still have the problem of many of my TSR background program 
icons are no longer displayed, such the "network" or "team viewer" 
icons, etc.

The TSR anti Virus icon does display as it should.  But any minimized 
program buttons will not go into the systray as they should.  They 
minimize just above the systray.  If I try to drag them down into the 
systray, they disappear.

Been using PC's since the mid 80's starting with DOS 3 then 5 and a 
little later Win 3.3 and up.  In the back of my mind, I seem to remember 
there are some simple app commands where one can configure what displays 
and where, but I can't remember what to look for or maybe I'm confusing 
this with another function.

Obviously something is not right yet.  So I'm still open to 
suggestions.  All inputs are appreciated.

I know I am going to have to upgrade to another Windows  product 
eventually.  I am just trying to keep WinXp going for a little while 
longer.  This computer has a lot of really good XP programs that I don't 
believe will work with Win 8 or 10.  Win 7 might serve as a possible 
buffer for a while.  But at 78 years young, I'm not looking forward to 
all the work and expense it will take to upgrade.
Ray, W4BYG



On 3/4/2017 11:07 PM, W8BVH wrote:
> Hello Ray,
> I sometimes loose my tray at the bottom of my xp screen. I have found 
> that if I look closely I can see a line just above the edge of the 
> screen and if I put my curser on it so that I get a small verticle 
> line w/ an arrow on the top and bottom {like the one you get when you 
> are going to expand a picture or frame} I can raise it up a bit and my 
> tray comes back. I hope this is of some help.
> Ralph
> w8bvh
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