I have Windows XP Pro, sp 2.I just reinstalled Windows and the icons in the System Tray and Quick Launch Toolbar are definitely smaller. Is there a way to change the size of these icons?
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View 1 Replies View Relatedi feel so stupid having to ask this question when there are so many others on this site with real problems, but here goes, i just bought a new computer running XP, and have no idea how to change the size of the icons on the desktop, i have very few icons on the desktop now, but they are BIG, and cannot find where to go to adjust them.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI reinstalled Windows for my sister, who is visually impaired. I just installed Windows XP Pro. Just finished it, and then handed it over to her, to customize her settings. Since she has bad vision, she usually lowers the resolution down to 800x600 and has the font size and title bar sizes larger. Well as soon as I left her alone with her computer, she messed up the windows or icon settings so bad, so everything is HUGE. Everything is so huge, that (what should be) small menus now fill the whole screen. We can't get to the part of the preferences window to change the resolution to something higher, and we can't get to anywhere (that we know of) to change anything back to something resembling normal. Basically, we can't do anything anymore.I know I can reinstall Windows XP all over again, but since I JUST DID THAT I'd like to avoid having to do it all over again. Is there some way to reset the preferences, without having to reinstall the whole operating system for something so seemingly idiotic?
View 1 Replies View Relatedmy icons in the system tray is stacking on top of each other instead of going across the bottom of teh screen like normal.Does anyone know how to solve this issue? Here is an example using the smilies.My system tray looks like this right now.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI know this is a commonly asked question but the fixes I have found online so far have not worked for me. The problem is simple, my systray icons do not show up anymore but the clock does and I cannot access the 'hide inactive icons' check box that is in the properties area of the tray because it is grayed out.
View 4 Replies View Relatedat times after restart, some system tray icons dont show up, e.g. creative volume panel, free download manager icon, etc.
View 5 Replies View RelatedToday, I noticed two icons that are normally in the system tray are gone. They are the blue battery icon for the laptop battery status, and the Windows volume control speaker icon. Yes,I opened the "Power Options" icon in Windows Control Panel, and under "Power Options Properties/Advanced, the checkbox "Always show icon on the taskbar" is checked. Yet the icon will not show. Same thing for the Windows volume control icon, in Control Panel, I clicked "Sounds and Audio Devices", and on the "Volume" tab, I have checked "Place volume icon in the taskbar", but there's no icon. They were both there yesterday, and I didn't knowlingly change any settings.
View 3 Replies View RelatedTwo icons have disappeared but occasionally reappear for one or two secessions. I believe this happened after the Microsoft updates early November but that may be just a coincidence. The programs are still running when I check in services and I am just wondering why this is happening. The icons that disappeared are Webroot's Spyweeper and Pure Network's, Network Magic, my network manager program. My system specs are P4 2.8mhz 1024mb ram 160gb hdd running Windows XP Home.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI am havig some system tray icon problems after installing anti-virus and spyware software. Looking for a fix for the disappearing system tray icons at initial start-up. Quick fix log off and on again icons reappear where they should. I am told that this disappearing activity is due to a Windows XP "BUG". What a problem! Any ideas for a secure, lasting fix out there? After the spyware and antivirus software installation, the computer star-up time is now really SLOW too. The software launches seems to be in conflict with each other, or something. Have emachine--T3406, Windows XP Home 2002, Service Pack 2. 1.23 GB RAM.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am running windows xp service pack 3 on an hp desktop and i have recently installed a new wireless card. The network that I am trying to connect to can only be accessed through the use of windows wireless manager. The problem that i am having is that the network icons (both wireless and wired) are missing from the system tray. This wouldnt normally bother me, but one of the steps for connecting requires you to click a bubble that pops up from the wireless network icon. However, no icon = no bubble. I can access my available networks from the network connections folder, but i need those icons in order to finish setup. I have checked the boxes to display the icons in the system tray and I have unchecked the hide unused icons box. I cannot find any solutions online.
View 12 Replies View RelatedI have a weird issue (relatively minor one) concerning my system tray on my XP SP3 installation. This has gone on for several months (if not years) now on my custom computer. I am pretty good at computing in general, but this stumps me right now and then! (please view my computing specs if you can see them, if not PM me.)Apparently, whenever I click on any icon in my system tray on the start bar, it will usually show the right click menu for the TASK BAR. Does this make any sense? I wish this would not happen. If anyone knows how to resolve/fix/stop this, please reply to this thread, please. Thanks!!! I am running a genuine (valid) copy of XP SP3, with all updates. I do not run any illegal modifications or otherwise illegitimate software at this time, so that is not the cause of this at all. I swear by the number of hairs on my head, if that is not enough, then the amount of stars in the universe!
View 1 Replies View RelatedHow do I stop certain system tray icons from hiding? I have tried the properties/customize/always show options but this does not seem to work. Also in this list here are a number of icons that belong to programs that are no longer on my laptop. Is there a way to:
1) edit this list
2) make certain icons always display (e.g. ac/battery) but hide others.
I am running Win XP Pro with SP2 (standard setup). The problem: A couple of the icons in the system tray don't show up on re-boot. Specifically, the 'safely remove hardware' icon, and a backup utility called 'second copy' that runs on startup. When I 'restore' to the exact same point, everything is fine. When I reboot, gone again. And when they are gone, I can't run the backup utility (it won't start). What is different about the restore utility that makes it work if I restore to the same exact point. This all started with I tried to uninstall and reinstall Norton Utilities (which seems to be working fine).
View 8 Replies View RelatedEvery now and then the icons in the system tray freeze, and when I put my mouse over the windows the text disappears and the tool tips are blank black squares... how can I fix this? >.> (a temporary for me to fix this problem is to kill the explorer.exe process and restart it)
View 2 Replies View RelatedIn the system tray my clock use to display the time only. Now it displays the day and date as well. How do I change it back to just display the time?
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2. What purpose does it serve?
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when the system boots, many of the icons do not appear in the system tray. most of the time, only the Mcafee security center is running in the system tray, and the wireless network and local area connection icons are there, with nothing else appearing. what should appear is the battery meter icon (thats probably the most annoying thing), the volume icon, AVG free edition, nokia pc suite, dell quickset, dell support, microsoft spyware, and the winamp tray icon.
View 5 Replies View RelatedOn an initial boot up, I loose the show hidden icon arrow and all the icons in the system tray, the only way to get them back is to log off then log back on again,
View 3 Replies View RelatedI heard that the paging file should always be 1.5x the amount of RAM that is available on the machine. My initial size of the paging file is set to around 2GB and I was wondering if I should change the initial size to 3GB or put it to 'System managed size'?
View 11 Replies View RelatedI changed language settings on my pc to korean and then back to english, now i have 2 icons for every program i open on my taskbar, that is there seems to be 2 toolbars both containing every program i open. Anyone know a way to remove one of these toolbars?
View 6 Replies View Relatedin my machine running on a windows XP SP, tray icons got nuts. they are not visible. time and networking is always visible. but avast, yahoo msnger, gtalk, open DNS updater nd all those stuffs are vanished..even adobe updater while updating is not there which cost a lot my bandwidth.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI noticed the other day that a couple of my tray icons are missing. I know I didn't uninstall anything or set them to not show. they just stopped appearing. To my knowledge, the ones that I noticed as missing (LogMeIn and DVD43) don't even have settings to hide them. When I go to task manager I can see that they are running in Processes, but there is no way for me to interact with them.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have found fix for the missing XP tray Icons on the home page of Tech-pro.net. The solution worked for me just fine as suggested on the web site which was to disable the UPNP using the provided reg file.But that got me thinking that it must be something that does this other then UPNP and I found the actual culprit. This is really dumb but it worked. Open My Network Placers and click on the "Hide icon for networked UPnP devices" located in the Network Task area of this window. If there is "Show icons for networked devices" in this location instead then the problem must be someplace else.
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy problem was that there were icons missing in notification tray although they were not set on hide.I learned now that the most important thing on the way to find the solution is to know exactly how the elements that are involved in the problem are called..I am not english so that takes little extra time, so in order to find the solution as fast as possible I must always be very precize - to type more exact in Google.This little effort pays off..Oh..and there is always a tweak for whatever sollution, a good name to remember a tweak..Many pages with tweaks on internet.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedRunning XP Pro and SP2. For some reason my icons in my bottom Right hand tray keep losing themselves. The only ones shown are my Wireless Adaptor, Bluetooth and Kaspersky. But when I go to Control Panel, Sounds and Audio devices Properties and turn the icon on and 'apply' etc. all of my missing icons pop up, "sound, wireless connection, cable network connection and safely remove hardware". But when the system is restarted for use at another time, Its back to as described with missing icons. I've been into Control Panel, System Services and down to Universal Plug and Play properties, this was set to "Manual" to which I changed to "Automatic". I did this following a subject at MSN Knowledge. But again starting the system today its just the same. One thing not mentioned, I did a registry clean a few weeks ago, whether someting had changed at that point.
View 8 Replies View RelatedMy Windows Explorer keeps crashing. I loose my desktop icons, taskbar, tray and start menu. Windows minimize to just above where the taskbar should be. Usually I can re-start the explorer.exe in the task manager. It now flashes and then is gone again. I can't get it back. How can I get to the control panel with no start menu? I've tried an earlier restore point, restarted with last known good configuration. Nothing. I'm running windows XP Home SP2 all updates.
View 9 Replies View RelatedHello Folks. how can I reduce the size of icons at the moment they are rather large I have tried help and support but there is no help there?. I have also tried display.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI did a re-install today and somehow screwed up on the partitions. The partition I was going to install XP on was supposed to be 10g, but for some reason it turned out to be 1.4g.Can I change this and add more space, without messing up the OS? Is there a free program out there that'll do this?
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