dosequisrex Posted February 2, 2008 Report Share Posted February 2, 2008 I just joined this forum, I hope to get some issues solved and hope to help others as well - you guys look like a great group to work with - anyways heres my first post, hope it can be solved---------------Ok so I've been through countless forums trying to solve my issue and to no avail I have arrived at just posting what seems to be a very unique problem.Ok so as you may have guessed, my "Hide inactive icons" does not work. I have tried to restart, tried the fixes from http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm, and nothing worked. Basically what happens is this, I start up, there is no chevron (little arrow) so I go to the taskbar and click properties, and turn on "hide inactive icons" and still nothing. So I click "Customize" (This is where its unique) BAM nothing in the list. There used to be stuff there, and then for no reason it all went away.I tried to click "restore defaults" but nothing happens the list stays blank. I tried a registry fix I found, but nothing. One final note. After I click to activate the "hide inactive icons' and punching apply, my comp thinks for a bit, and then i can click ok, but nothing so I reopen the properties and WOW its unchecked.Please helpI'm running:Pentium 4 - 3.2GhzASUS P4c800-E2Gbs RAM74Gb Raptor - with Windows XP Media Center 2005 Rollup 2 (basically xp pro with a media app B) )and an nvidia GeForce FX 5950 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted February 2, 2008 Report Share Posted February 2, 2008 In your Registry, under :-HKEY_CURRENT_USER | Software | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Policies | Explorer Do you have in the R/H pane the following two keys ?NoAutoTrayNotify NoTrayItemsDisplay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosequisrex Posted February 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2008 In your Registry, under :-HKEY_CURRENT_USER | Software | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Policies | Explorer Do you have in the R/H pane the following two keys ?NoAutoTrayNotify NoTrayItemsDisplayI have NoTrayItemsDisplay with a value of 0 but not the first one.heres a list of what i have in the explorerClassicShell --> 0LinkResolveIgnoreLinkInfo --> 0NoActiveDesktop --> 0NoBandCustomize --> 0NoCloseDragDropBands --> 0NoDriveTypeAutoRun --> 145NoMovingBands --> 0NoSaveSettings --> 0NoSetTaskbar --> 0NoToolbarsOnTaskbar --> 0NoTrayItemsDisplay --> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted February 2, 2008 Report Share Posted February 2, 2008 Do those two same items appear in :-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | Software | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Policies | Explorer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Posted February 2, 2008 Report Share Posted February 2, 2008 Hello dosequisrex. :D I just came across this in a search....LOOK HERE and scroll down to "Icons - Notification Area - Chevron Missing". Let us know if it works for you. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted February 2, 2008 Report Share Posted February 2, 2008 Irenedosequisrex has apparently tried the Kellys Korner tweaks already ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Posted February 2, 2008 Report Share Posted February 2, 2008 Irenedosequisrex has apparently tried the Kellys Korner tweaks already ?Sorry, dosequisrex.I didn't read far enough!! Thanks Boris. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosequisrex Posted February 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2008 Hey thanks all for trying. To answer Boris, I do not have either of those in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | Software | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Policies | Explorerand yes to re-iterate to Irene, I don't have anything coming up in the list when i hit customize, so I can't mark an item to be "Always Show" I'm not sure how this happened but thanks for trying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted February 3, 2008 Report Share Posted February 3, 2008 You could try removing theNoTrayItemsDisplay from HKEY_CURRENT_USER | Software | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Policies | Explorer I do not have any of the four entries I asked about above showing in my Registry and mine works fine.I do however suggest that you back up your registry first using something like ERUNTDetailsas a precaution :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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