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Windows 7 ver 6.1 build 7600 shows windows updates available in the system tray but does not download/install any. It just hangs. Services.msc- Windows Update is set to Automatic. It was working but something obviously changed. Last successful UPDATE Was Optional on May 1, 2010. Important...

Running win7 home premium 64bit on laptop. When I click on the power tray icon i can only choose from two power plans. How can i get the last power plan on that list?

Recently updated this handy little tool can be operated from the system tray. See screenshot for a better list of capabilities... Link Removed

I can't believe I'm the only one with this issue! So I was listening to music, volume was way turned up. Then I turned the music off. The a while later I'm surfing away and some site has an super obnoxious ad with a hidden pop-under window with this incredibly loud voice BLASTING me with...

Hi, I've got this problem with my intex USB Audio Speakers where whenever I plug them in my Windows 7 powered laptop, they just don't work. The default audio device in Control Panel/Sounds changes automatically from my onboard High Definition Audio Device to USB Audio Device (which I think it's...

Hi, I run windows 7 x64 ultimate and I like to have my taskbar on the left side of the desktop. I widen it just enough to have two icons in the system tray wide. Now any time aero stops working (for any number of reasons), the taskbar resizes back to being just one icon wide (the minimum). I...

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Hi, My volume control is missing from the system tray. It was there earlier and when i rebooted it never came up. Also, in the "show or hide volume icon on the taskbar" the volume control os blaked out and off. I could not activate it from there. Any suggestions? Thanks, Adam

To whoever may figure this puzzle out, thank you so much in advance! The situation: AIM! Normally, when the buddy list is minimized, it goes and hides in the system tray. This was so with XP, Vista, and Win 7 Beta/RC. However... Win 7 Ultimate, no such deal. The AIM icon STAYS on the taskbar...

Hey everyone, this is my first post so please bear with me. I just got this OS X theme working and I then tried to change the system tray icons. After, my taskbar is thick as if I were using large icons. But im not. Heres a screenshot of what Im talking about. can someone help? I tried reverting...

I have a Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit OS installed on a machine with 8 GB RAM on a quad core processor. I find one very strange problem very frequently from past few days. The number of start up programs have increased gradually and this means that around 15 to 20 system tray icons appear in...

I'm new so forgive me if I'm doing this wrong. I just upgraded to windows 7. I can't print. I've downloaded drivers, I've tried two different printers. It printed the test page when I first set things up, but now nothing. It also takes forever to cancel/delete a print job when I click on cancel...

I don't want to automatically update Windows when there are new updates and therefor i've set Win Update to letting me know there are new updates and then manually selecting which ones i want to download. This is causing Windows to show a small flag in the system tray with a message about...

Hello, Programs like MSN Live and AIM create icons on the task bar for simply running, even if they are not actively being used. I just switched from XP where programs like AIM and MSN Live would just stay in the system tray in the bottom right corner of the screen. I highly prefer this. If i...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Link Removed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Link Removed If you’ve made the switch to Windows 7 and use Windows Live Messenger, you might have noticed the icon stays in the new Taskbar. If you...

NTWind Software provides small and powerful utilities for Microsoft Windows operating systems. TaskSwitchXP TaskSwitchXP is an advanced task management utility that picks up where the standard Windows Alt+Tab switcher leaves off. It provides the same functionality, and adds visual styles to...

I have added a Greek Key board > control panel>Redion and Language>Change > add key board The pop up screen show the tree structure with EN english and the EL greek key boards BUT the icons do not show in the system tray - bottom right as they used to in my XP system So I can not flip between...

Hi. I must say i really like what they did with the gadgets, it's just easier to administrate the desktop space. However i do miss the sidebar button on the systemtray to bring the gadgets back up, for me sometimes it is much easier using the mouse rather than the keyboard to bring attention to...

Hi, I've Windows 7 Ultimate and up until this week I had no issue with wireless connection and it still works but here is the problem. For about a week everytime I log into my Windows, my wireless connection icon on the system tray shows with "X" but if I click on troubleshoot then after couple...

Hi, Does anyone know how to decipher the entries in TrayNotify area of the registry? I am working with a program that provides an option to run in the system tray and when selected, it runs in the backgound while its icon is put in the notification area overflow and can be seen when the overflow...