Shoutbox

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.

google

it means a failure of something, likely hardware issue. check device manager etc

Already Google'd, see links above. No definite answer.

No warnings in device manager.

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Originally posted by Chris4
Already Google'd, see links above

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links added after editing ¬_¬

tried a simple restart, see if it goes?

if yes, are firewall, defender, update, other windows utilities all working properly

Virus infection

Nah, that happens to me whenever i use an application with no aero support.

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Originally posted by Chris4
It appeared after her screen went black randomly, then came back on.

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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.