System in the Systray icons disappear

System network and Volume icons disappear from the system tray and appear grayed out in the bar of the settings of the properties of tasks. There is a KB post by Microsoft (article 945011). There is an inclusive "fix it for me difficulty. Another article (I can't find at the moment) describes the same thing and provides a registry patch. After you run one, you must stop/restart explorer.exe... articles specify that this will probably cancel the fix, but it will need to be redone... This is the case.

Why is there a permanent solution to this known issue. It is nothing else than to boring, but indicates an operating system with a bug.

How and when will this bug permanently fixed?

Jon

Hello world

Try the following steps to resolve this problem:

1. click on start to reduce this includes this image, type regedit in the Search box and press ENTER. Collapse this includes this image

If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type the password, or click allow.

2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:

Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify HKEY_CURRENT_USER

3. in the Details pane, click the IconStreams registry entry.

4. in the Edit menu, click delete, and then click Yes.

5. in the Details pane, click the PastIconsStream registry entry.

6. on the Edit menu, click delete, and then click Yes.

7. exit the registry editor.

8 restart the Explorer.exe process. To do this, follow these steps:

a. press CTRL + SHIFT + ESC.

b. the process in the Task Manager tab, click the process explorer.exe and then double click on end process .

c. on the file menu, click new task (run), type exploreand then click OK.

d. exit Task Manager

Please post back and let us know if this solves the problem - thank you

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