Posted on May 07, 2008 under Windows Vista Tips, Windows XP Tips |
If any of the System Icons such as the Speaker, Network, or Power icons are missing from the Taskbar Notification Area (Systray) in Windows Vista or Windows XP, try the following steps to try to bring them back.
1. Open Regedit by holding down the Windows Key and press the R key. Type regedit in the box and click OK.
2. Click My Computer on the top left side.
3. Click Edit > Find.
4. Type iconstreams and click Find.
5. If Regedit finds an entry named iconstreams, press the Delete button on your keyboard to delete it.
6. Press the F3 key on your keyboard to continue searching the registry. If Regedit finds any additional entries, delete those as well.
7. Repeat steps 2 through 6, only this time instead of searching for iconstreams, search for PastIconStreams instead, and delete any of those entries.
8. Close the registry editor and restart the computer. See if your System icons have reappeared in the Taskbar Notification Area (Systray).
See also: Systray icons missing
Posted on May 06, 2008 under Windows Vista Tips |
How to enable or disable the power icon in the Notification Area or Systray in Windows Vista.
1. Right-click on a blank area of the Taskbar.
2. Click Properties.
3. Click the Notification Area tab.
4. Under System Icons, put a check in the box for Power to enable the power icon in the Systray or uncheck it to disable it.
5. Click OK.
Posted on May 06, 2008 under Windows Vista Tips |
How to enable or disable the clock in the Notification Area or Systray in Windows Vista.
1. Right-click on a blank area of the Taskbar.
2. Click Properties.
3. Click the Notification Area tab.
4. Under System Icons, put a check in the box for Clock to enable the speaker icon in the Systray or uncheck it to disable it.
5. Click OK.
Posted on Apr 01, 2008 under Windows Vista Tips |
You can enable or disable the thumbnail icon feature for image files.
1. Open Control Panel.
2. Open Folder Options.
3. Select View.
4. Uncheck the box for Always show icons, never thumbnails to enable thumbnail icons. Check the box to disable thumbnail icons.
Posted on Nov 26, 2007 under Windows Vista Tips |
How to change system icons to older versions for system icons such as Computer, Recycle Bin, Network and Internet Explorer.
1. Choose Start > Control Panel > Appearance and Personalization > Personalization > Change Desktop Icons.
2. Click on the icon you wish to change and click Change Icon.
3. Browse to WindowsSystem32shell32.dll
4. Select an icon and click OK.
You can also change non-system icons by right-clicking an icon and selecting Properties, then Change Icon and performing steps 3 and 4.
Posted on Nov 26, 2007 under Windows Vista Tips |
How to hide and unhide icons in the notification area or systray in Windows Vista.
1. Right-click an empty area of the notification area and select Properties.
2. In the System Icons area, you can check or uncheck the icons that you wish to show or hide. In the Icons area, to always show all icons, you can uncheck Hide Inactive Icons, click OK.
3. You can show or hide other non-system icons by clicking Customize.
4. Here you can use the dropdown to select Hide When Inactive, Hide, or Show from the drop-down list for each program. To revert back to the default settings, you can click Click Default Settings. Click OK when done.
Posted on Nov 26, 2007 under Windows Vista Tips |
How to enable the speaker icon to appear in the Notification Area or Systray next to the time.
1. Right-click on a blank area of the Taskbar and choose Properties.
2. Click the Notification Area tab.
3. Under System Icons, put a check in the box for Volume and click OK.
Posted on Nov 19, 2007 under Windows Vista Tips |
How to enable the Computer (formerly My Computer) icon on your desktop in Windows Vista.
ITsVISTA has the ways to enable the Computer icon on the Desktop as well as other icons that might be missing from your Desktop in Windows Vista.
Method 1:
1. Right-click on the Desktop
2. Click Personalize and choose Change Desktop Icons.
3. You can enable Computer (formerly My Computer), the Admin folder, Network and Recycle Bin.
Method 2:
1. Click on Start.
2. Right-click on Computer.
3. Choose Show on Desktop.
Posted on Nov 19, 2007 under Registry Hacks |
Enable or disable the “Manage” option when you right click on the My Computer (Or Computer in Vista) icon.
1. Open REGEDIT
2. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
then SOFTWARE
then Microsoft
then Windows
then CurrentVersion
then Policies
then Explorer
3. Double-click on NoManageMyComputerVerb if it exists.
4. Set this value to 1 to disable the Manage option.
Set this value to 0 to enable the Manage option.
5. Restart the computer.
How to fix the problem when your Administrative Tools folder is empty and contains no icons to click on.
1. Click START–>RUN and type REGEDIT. Click OK.
2. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
then SOFTWARE
then Microsoft
then Windows
then CurrentVersion
then Explorer
then User Shell Folders
3. Delete the value named Common Administrative Tools
4. Open Shell Folders under the Explorer tree. Delete the value named Common Administrative Tools there also.
Posted on Nov 19, 2007 under Windows XP Tips |
Set which desktop icon appears first.
1. Click START–>RUN and type REGEDIT
2. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
then CLSID
then {450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}
Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, called “SortOrderIndex” and set it according to the value.
0×48 = My Documents
0×54 = My Computer
Posted on Nov 19, 2007 under Windows XP Tips |
All of your icons are missing from your desktop. When you search for them, they show as being on your desktop still.
This is a common prank people will play. They will hide your icons on your desktop.
Usually the icons are hidden in a folder, and the folder is placed in a corder of the screen.
Also they could be using the option to hide desktop icons. This selection is located by right clicking on the desktop, and selecting ARRANGE ICONS. Make sure the SHOW DESKTOP ICONS is checked.
Posted on Nov 19, 2007 under Windows XP Tips |
Make the icons load faster in Windows XP.
1. Open My Computer.
2. Click on Tools and select Folder Options…
3. Click Folder Options select the View tab.
4. Uncheck the very first box that reads “Automatically search for network folders and printers”.
5. Click OK
Posted on Nov 18, 2007 under Windows Tips |
If strange things are happening with your icons, you may need to delete the icon cache file.
Perform the following steps:
1. Hold down F5 while booting up Windows to start up in Safe Mode.
2. Open MY COMPUTER and ensure that you are able to view hidden files.
If you are using Windows 2000 or XP, select TOOLS–>FOLDER OPTIONS–>VIEW and check SHOW HIDDEN FILES AND FOLDERS
If you are using Windows 95, 98, or NT, select VIEW–>OPTIONS and Check SHOW ALL FILES
3. Find the icon cache file:
Windows XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Iconcache.db
Windows 98/ME/2000
C:\Windows\ShellIconCache
4. Delete the file.
5. Restart the computer.
Posted on Nov 18, 2007 under Windows Tips |
This article addresses why a user may be missing all of their desktop icons and settings when they login to Windows. Windows may have created a new profile for the user because their current one is corrupted.
Check to see where the old profile data is. Most likely it is in the location:
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME
You may also find that there are more than one folders in this location such as:
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME.DOMAIN NAME
This is likely the location of the new profile Windows created because the old one is corrupted.
Most likely the C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME profile is the corrupted one, but it should still contain the data.
You can copy the contents of this folder except for these 3 files:
Ntuser.dat
Ntuser.dat.log
Ntuser.ini
Copy the data from the corrupted profile to the new profile at C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME.DOMAIN NAME and just have the user use his profile from this location.
You may want to clean things up a bit more than this though as the user may have several different corrupted profiles. You can use this link for a suggestion on how to do this.
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