Guys!

I downloaded the latest CCleaner version and installed it.

After cleaning the crap on my system using this s/w, I found a BIG problem in my computer.

I found that some System tray icons, like net connection icon, USB drives icon are not showing in system tray

All other icons r displayed, like avast! icon, spybot S&D icon, ZA icon, etc. But when I connect net, no icon is displayed in system tray. Same happens when I attach my Pen Drive, no icon is displayed in system tray! I didnt install ne other s/w after installing this new version of CCleaner....

I think it happened due to the Tray Notification Cache option of CCleaner. I checked this option while cleaning the crap.

Now the problem is CCleaner has cleared these items and the problem has been started, now how can I get back my Net connection icon ( 2little computers in system tray) and the Remove hardware icon (when u insert USB drive) ?

I hv done all the things, which I know, like

1.) I hv deleted both IconStreams and PastIconsStream keys.

2.) I hv also checked values of EnableAutoTray in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

is set to 0.

3.) The value of NoTrayItemsDisplay in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer is also set to 0.

4.) I also tried to replace systray.exe file with the new one extracted from XP CD but no benefit

Now how can I get back these icons displaying again in system tray?

Pls guys! tell me solutions...

thnx in advance!

not sure how to help you, but i've never had anything like this happen with ccleaner, been using it for about a year now i think.. and on hundreds of computers

you could try creating a new user account and see if that one is affected by it too?

first thnx a lot for replying here

I tried what u said, I created a new account but same thing, in this account too net connection icon and remove hardware icons are not displaying

Its very irritating! And yes! it happened only due to CCleaner coz the problem started just after using it. After it I didnt install any other software...

hmm, weird

go into control panel, network connections, double click the connection

tick the 'display in tray' box..?

Yeah! I hv checked it, the option "show the icon in system tray" is checked.

Actually the problem is not related to only net connection icon. As I already said, the icon which appears in system tray, when we connect USB drive, is also not showing.

The strange thing is that some icons r displaying and some not. Like all avast!, spybot S&D, Zonealarm, winamp, etc. r showing, but some r not!

I hv even tried to replace explorer.exe file with another one extracted from XP CD but no benefit...

Screenshot ? with taskmanager please ?

FINALLY!!!! I got it working

Phew..... I tried so many methods, so many tricks, which I never tried in past

And finally I found the reason behind it. When I was doing some R&D in registry for finding the reason, an Idea came in my mind. I tried to enable the option "Show Volume icon in system tray" in mmsys.cpl. For my wonder, it didnt work. When I enabled the option, no volume icon was displayed in system tray. After that I tried to open Powercfg.cpl file to enable Hibernate, and the applet didnt open. When I typed powercfg.cpl in RUN, nothing happened. Now I was very near to my solution

What I did, I opened the DUMP of my XP setup and searched for the files having pow in their name and I found 4 files and when I checked in my system32 folder, there were only 3 and the file powrprof.dll was missing, thats it!

I just copied the required file and rebooted the pc, and after restart the problem was solved! all icons started showing again

Thats a huge BUG which I found in windows as well as CCleaner! How can a missing file cause other icons to be missing in system tray? and how can CCleaner delete that file?

Edited September 18, 200619 yr by Vishal Gupta