The tray icons are still there, but they're just invisible. No amount of clicking will do anything to them.
Ending and then running explorer.exe
is a quick fix, but then the icons return to their invisible state upon reboot. I've been dealing with this for a while now and it's starting to get on my nerves.
I have read many articles and tried a bunch of "solutions" such as:
- deleting
iconstreams
andpasticonstreams
from registry - installing anti-virus software
- clearing the windows icon cache
but these have not worked.
Any help would be awesome.
Can you reproduce the issue all the time?
Yes, every time I reboot my computer they go invisible.
Are those invisible icons always the same ones?
Usually they tend to be the same ones, but sometimes Skype is hidden and sometimes it's not, for example.
Have you run sfc /scannow
in command prompt as administrator?
Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.
Best Answer
Taken from the article How to Reset the Notification Area Icons Cache is the file Reset_Notification_Area_Icons_Cache.bat.
You may download the file, but the contents of the file are also reproduced below :
Detailed description for running this batch file are included in the article.