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Friday, October 21, 2011

The icon was not able to register in the notification area

In my system, every time I boot or restart windows it shows "The icon was not able to register in the notification area" after logged into my account . When I check system Notification area and found an Exe file which shows in the message. But no option found to remove it. So I try to remove by editing the registry.

1. Back up the Registry by creating a restore point.
2. Go to Start > Run (or Windows-key + R), type in regedit and hit OK.
3. Navigate to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cla sses\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Wi ndows\CurrentVersion \TrayNotify.
4. Delete the values IconStreams and PastIconsStream.
5. Open up the Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc), go to the Processes tab, select explorer.exe and click End Process.
6. Open the Applications tab and click New Task at the bottom-right of the window.
7. In the message box that pops up type in explorer.exe and hit OK.
8. Explorer.exe will reload, and the missing icons should now be back in the system-tray where they belong.

2 comments:

  1. Thank you. This worked perfectly for me.
    How did you figure this out, anyway ?

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  2. Thank you. I thaught that would be for ever. I thank you so much :-)

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