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Systray Icon /!\ by Chris4 on 02-14-2009 at 01:36 AM
Hey,
My girlfriend has Vista.
She's got this icon in the systray:
(The one on the far left)
Nothing appears when you hover or click.
It appeared after her screen went black randomly, then came back on.
Any ideas?
I have XP so I don't have a clue.
Thanks.
Researched and found these:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php...739daf4b0&t=558094
http://www.technologyquestions.com/technology/win...n-system-tray.html
But no definite answer.
RE: Systray Icon /!\ by toddy on 02-14-2009 at 01:50 AM
google 
it means a failure of something, likely hardware issue. check device manager etc
RE: Systray Icon /!\ by Chris4 on 02-14-2009 at 01:57 AM
Already Google'd, see links above. No definite answer.
No warnings in device manager.
RE: Systray Icon /!\ by toddy on 02-14-2009 at 02:01 AM
quote:links added after editing ¬_¬
Originally posted by Chris4
Already Google'd, see links above
tried a simple restart, see if it goes?
if yes, are firewall, defender, update, other windows utilities all working properly
RE: Systray Icon /!\ by tony on 02-14-2009 at 02:05 AM
Virus infection
Nah, that happens to me whenever i use an application with no aero support.
RE: Systray Icon /!\ by pollolibredegrasa on 02-14-2009 at 02:46 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Chris4
It appeared after her screen went black randomly, then came back on.
If it was truly random when this ^^ happened, and not after starting an app without aero support, then it sounds like her display driver probably crashed. There's usually a little balloon too stating "the display driver stopped responding and successfully recovered" or something along those lines, although this hasn't always appeared when it's happened to me.
You could always check the system event log (control panel>administrative tools>event viewer, then look under Windows logs>system) and try find any warnings that match the time it appeared.