I have a tiny problem with my tray icon. Some programs show up in the tray icon whenever they feel like it. The big icon that I need to be shown in there that does not show is the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon. For some weird reason this icon stopped showing up. I run maintenance on my computer weekly using:
1.Avast Antivirus
2.CCleaner
3.Spybot Search and Destroy
4.Ad-Aware 2007
5.Ashampoo Windows Optimizer
6.AusLogics Disk Defrag
So as you see, my computer is as clean as it can be. Any suggestions on this tray icon issue?
Thank You.

I know Vista had an update where that wasnt required to do, but I don't know if you are using vista or not. What OS are you using and what are you trying to remove?

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I'm using Windows XP SP2.

This might help

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It helps a bit. Thanks for your help.

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The way i would address it is to Right-Click the Task Bar, chose Properties. Then on the "Taskbar" tab, near the bottom is a tab to hide inactive icons. Chose CUSTOMIZE, and then find the program you need, to it's right, use the drop-down box to chose "Always Show". Okay your way out of the boxes. This should fix what you needed to do.

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If nothing seems to fix it, you can always leave the device plugged in until you shut the computer down. You can then savely remove it.

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Hmm, can you still access your USB stick mvia my computer?

and if you have a lot of icons appearing at start up, i would have a look in msconfig. And disable any programs that you do not want to start uip on boot.

Jam

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