Went to Notification area icon control panel. Selected ONLY SHOW NOTIFICATIONS, for the icon in system tray. Clicked OK and exited control panel. However icon still appears in system tray. Then did a warm boot. still no change. Next, i went back to the notification area icons control panel. I changed the behavior to SHOW ICON AND NOTIFICATION. [normally a tag pops up indicating that this behavior will take effect on the next bootup] However that tag did not appear. I clicked okay and then i again changed the behavior to ONLY SHOW NOTIFICATION. still that popup message did not appear. The icon still appears on the system tray. While it is not bothersome to me, i still would like to fix it so i know that its working in case i want to change the behavior of a particular icon. Before my system froze and i was forced to do a warm boot, i always had the Network and Action Center icons set as ONLY SHOW NOTIFICATION and that is how i would like to have it. In addition. I never had to uncheck the "always show all icons and notifications on the taskbar" for the behaviors to work as a selected. Even with that box checked AFTER MAKING ANY CHANGES, the icons that have the behavior selected as ONLY SHOW NOTIFICATION, worked properly and did not appear in the system tray ALL of the time, just when a notification occurred. Thank You JamieThompson

Hi, Please rebuilt the icon cache and reset Notification Area Icons. Icon Cache Rebuild 1. Open an elevated command prompt 2. Type the following commands: taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F CD /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local DEL IconCache.db /a shutdown /r /f /t 00 Notification Area Icons - Reset http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/13102-notification-area-icons-reset.html Niki Han TechNet Community Support

Hi, Please rebuilt the icon cache and reset Notification Area Icons. Icon Cache Rebuild 1. Open an elevated command prompt 2. Type the following commands: taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F CD /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local DEL IconCache.db /a shutdown /r /f /t 00 Notification Area Icons - Reset http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/13102-notification-area-icons-reset.html Niki Han TechNet Community Support

Is it necessary to restart explorer.exe manually. If so please provide instructions. Thank YouJamieThompson

Hi, How to restart explorer 1. Open Task Manager, find explorer.exe and select end. 2. Click File, New Task, then type explorer.exe and click OK.Niki Han TechNet Community Support

Followed your directions as listed. No change in notification area icon behaviors. Still same problem. What is the next step? Use Windows7 install disc and select "repair" ??? Please advise, thanks .JamieThompson

Hi Niki: Perhaps you did not get the reply that i sent. After trying to rebuild the notification icon cache as per your recommendations,system rebooted. And same problem still exists. I am suspecting that there is a corrupted system file or registry entry. Would you suggest that i try to repair the system files by using my Windows7 install disc and select "repair "??? Please reply when convenient. Thank you again. Jamie JamieThompson