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Missing icons after explorer.exe crash

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Mar 15, 20265819 views
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This has happened a few times now, but I've never taken the time to see if there's a solution to this problem. When explorer.exe crashes (due to, say, opening the Recycle Bin after throwing away a lot of files and killing the hanging Windows Explorer), some icons in the system tray don't show up, e…

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Fix for: Missing icons after explorer.exe crash

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When the program starts up is usually the time that it registers itself with Explorer (and puts its icon in the system tray) and I believe that while running a program can update its icon reasonably often but if they do not request an update or re-r…

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