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    Windows 7 I can't set notification area preferences any more!

    Seems to have happened after installing the last Windows Live Essentials & Microsoft Search Enhancement Pack updates from Windows Update. If I right click the system tray and go to properties, then check "Customize notification icons" it shows everything set to "Only show notifications" and...
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    Windows 7 Minimize programs to the hidden icons in System tray?

    I'd like to minimize a program to the hidden icon window in the task bar. Is this possible with windows 7? I use to run a program on XP called 4t tray Minimizer and I'm homing I don't have to fall back to that in order to do it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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    Windows 7 Tray Icon's Disappear

    When I try to customize the task bar, and I get to the system tray (notification area), icons, and I mark several "show icon & notifications", then click ok twice, they are visiable for about 15 min. then they revert back to "show notification only". This is annoying as I have several icons that...
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    Windows 7 OOOOOKKKKKK? System Tray gone crazy

    When I go to the task bar/notification area, and click the up arrow, to show hidden icons, the menu opens, and (shivers?) I don't really know how else to explain it. It just jerks back and forth, so bad that I can not click on any icon. Really, I barely can tell which icon is which. Any body...
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    Windows 7 New to Windows 7, What's out there?

    I'm looking to get the following behavior in Windows 7. When you double click something in the system tray and it appears, if you double click it again, it should become hidden again. Make double clicking toggle it. Also... is there like a 'PowerToys' type program for Windows 7? What are some...
  6. Windows 7 Remove Clock from System Tray in Windows

    how do you get rid of the clock displayed in the in the system tray?
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    Windows 7 Windows Security Center keeps on turning off!

    A bug I hope? Everytime I reboot I get the above message, in the system tray - 'Solve PC issues'. When I click it, I get the above message to switch back on 'Windows Security Center'. The only software that could be doing this is Sunbelt's Anti Virus software VIPRE. Could this be the culprit...
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    Windows 7 No sound after restart

    Aloha, We are using a ASUS integrated sound from Realtek. We install the Vista_R223.exe from the realtek.com and we have sound after the first reboot. The Realtek icon shows in the system tray..........All good. Then we reboot and our newly installed driver has been replaced by a Microsoft...
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    Windows 7 MSN Visual Bug

    Hm I don't remember if I disabled the Send Feedback/disabled shortcuts or it was removed from the RC, but I'll post it here. I'm using Windows 7 Basic theme on a laptop with bad ATI support so with Aero I get crashes when I go full screen in video/flash, but with the Basic theme enabled, if I...
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    Windows 7 Hard Disk Shown as Removable in system Tray in Windows 7

    Please Help... i cant find any solutions to my problem, I just install Windows 7 RC Ultimate in my Laptop, when its done, it shows that hard disk drive is removable Drive, i want to make it normal the way its in previous windows version before. Here my Stuff: Previous OS: Windows Vista...
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    Windows 7 Network activity indicator

    The network icon in system tray does not blink when there's traffic. How do i make it work like in winxp?
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    Windows Vista System Tray Icons

    There are icons in the notification area that I never need to see: Numbers Lock, Scroll Lock, Caps Lock. I know that I can hide them. I have set them to "hide" in "Customize Notification Icons". But what I would like to do is get rid of the icons permanently. Is this possible?
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    Windows 7 Windows Live Messenger Icon Issue

    So I just recently upgraded to the latest Windows Live suite version and Messenger has been giving me issues. The new icon is designed in such a way that it will not minimize to the system tray. I looked it up and it was found that by setting the compatibility to Windows Vista then it would...
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    Windows 7 Java Runtime Environment

    Heya, I seem to have trouble installing Java in the right way. Everytime I start MatLab I get long fancy list of java-errors, its really quite impressive. I can use my webbank account, which also uses java, which is quite wierd. When I press [CTRL]+[ALT]+[DEL] and access the taskmanager...
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    Windows 7 External Harddrive and AIM problem...

    So, been using Windows 7 for a couple weeks now and it's all good, but just recently I've noticed after the computers been on like over night or something that my AIM will automatically pop up when it's minimized to the system tray and my external hard drive will disconnect while it's still...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 seems slugish even though I've got more than enough...

    So, I decided to install and test out Windows 7 seeing how I've already bit the bullet and bought Vista Ultimate OEM. I know I'm shit out of luck with that money, but I wanted my new computer to be all legit and what not. Anyways, I am coming from a Linux Distro and the Windows 7 install went...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 seems slugish even though I've got more than enough...

    So, I decided to install and test out Windows 7 seeing how I've already bit the bullet and bought Vista Ultimate OEM. I know I'm shit out of luck with that money, but I wanted my new computer to be all legit and what not. Anyways, I am coming from a Linux Distro and the Windows 7 install went...
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    Windows 7 MS outlook 2007 issue

    Hi, When I close MS outlook 2007 it remains open and visible in my system tray and I want it closed after I exit out of outlook. How can I solve this? thx
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    Windows 7 Safely Remove Hardware - Long Lag Time

    When I want to safely remove some hardware I click on the icon located in the system tray. However it takes about 60 seconds for the option for me to remove the hardware to come up. I have tried it with various pieces of hardware plugged in (and unplugged) and I get the same thing result. I'm...
  20. Windows 7 Windows Explorer Glitch + WMP + other things

    When I am browsing in windows explorer, navigating through folders by opening them in the main view, the treeview does not reflect this. That is to say, I'll make it to my windows fonts folder and the treeview will still be displaying my hard drives as if I had never gone anywhere. EDIT: Ok i...