Q: I have installed Norton Internet Security 2010 on my Advent 9003 computer running Windows XP Home. When I power up sometimes the icon is missing on the taskbar. How can I get it back? I check with Windows Security Center and it indicates antivirus is on. Sometimes I get a message saying Norton idle time scan is running. I just want my icon back. Will I have to uninstall and re-install?
A: The first thing to do is check the taskbar configuration. Right-click on a blank area of the bar and choose Properties. On the Taskbar tab in the Notification area box click Customize. Select your Norton program and make sure it’s set to Always show.
Thanks to Windows 7’s introduction of a separate hidden icons area, many newer applications now hide their icons by default and this sometimes affects their behaviour on earlier operating systems. You can force the system to reset all tray icon activity with a registry hack. Run Regedit and go to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify select IconStreams and on the Edit menu click Delete, do the same with PastIconsStream close Regedit and reboot the PC.
In Windows 7 many of the icons that used to appear in the system tray are hidden in the notification area
Originally featured in PCU126
