{"id":172,"date":"2009-02-24T12:42:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T19:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2012-01-07T09:44:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T17:44:39","slug":"missing-icons-in-taskbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/missing-icons-in-taskbar\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing icons in Taskbar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have found this blog searching for an answer to why your taskbar icons disappear occasionally after a startup. Usually the speaker icon and a few others as well.\u00a0 I read that this is a known Windows XP problem that may have to do with UPnP and that it also happens most when you don&#8217;t have the &#8220;Hide inactive icons&#8221; unchecked in the taskbar settings&#8230; (right click taskbar, click properties, uncheck last box at bottom)<\/p>\n<p>For UPnP (Universal Plug and Play), simply go to &#8220;My Network Places&#8221;\u00a0 and click &#8220;Hide icons for networked UPnP devices&#8221; in the left pane. Don&#8217;t ask me why but it worked for me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-173\" title=\"hide-upnp\" src=\"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/hide-upnp.jpg\" alt=\"hide-upnp\" width=\"340\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/hide-upnp.jpg 340w, http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/hide-upnp-160x148.jpg 160w, http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/hide-upnp-300x277.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 I also tried another workaround called the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/winhlp.com\/node\/16#The_most_successful_workarounds\" target=\"_blank\">Diez workaround<\/a>&#8221; that calls\u00a0 for changing the UPnP and SSDP service itself. Go to Administrative Tools \/ Services (Control Panel\/ Administrative Tools\/ Services) and find &#8220;SSDP Discovery Service&#8221;, double click, change from &#8220;Manual&#8221; to &#8220;Automatic&#8221;. Same for UPnP &#8220;Universal Plug and Play Divice Host&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-174\" title=\"upnp\" src=\"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/upnp.jpg\" alt=\"upnp\" width=\"605\" height=\"44\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/upnp.jpg 605w, http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/upnp-160x11.jpg 160w, http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/upnp-300x21.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-176\" title=\"ssdp\" src=\"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/ssdp.jpg\" alt=\"ssdp\" width=\"569\" height=\"67\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/ssdp.jpg 569w, http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/ssdp-160x18.jpg 160w, http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/ssdp-300x35.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0Please read the website I found<a href=\"http:\/\/winhlp.com\/node\/16#\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a>, it is more extensive as I&#8217;m not a computer geek, I just like to pass on helpful tips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have found this blog searching for an answer to why your taskbar icons disappear occasionally after a startup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips","tag-icons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}