Dropbox icon missing from system tray
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Sylvia <sylvia0647@...>
Hi guys, I’m experiencing a peculiar problem and I hope I can get some help with this issue. For some reason, the dropbox icon in my system tray has disappeared. I’ve never had this happen before so I’m not sure what might have caused this to happen. I’m using Windows7 home premium.
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Carlos
The
"show all icons"
setting may have become disabled. If so, to
reenable it do the following.
1. Move to the Desktop by pressing Windows key M or Windows key D. 2. Tab once to the "Start"
button.
4. Press Alt Enter to open the
"Taskbar and Start Menu Properties"
dialog.
5. Tab until you hear "Notification area Customize..."
and press enter.
6. Tab once again until you find the checkbox labeled "Always show all icons and notifications on the taskbar" and check it. 7. Select the "OK"
button to exit the "Notification Area Icons"
dialog.
8. Select "OK"
again to exit the
"Taskbar and Start Menu Properties"
dialog.
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Sylvia <sylvia0647@...>
Hi Carlos, thanks for these instructions. I feel kind of silly because the icon has now reappeared on its own. I haven’t used this machine in a while because I’ve been in the process of moving so I’m wondering if being on a wireless network makes a difference in terms of dropbox being able to sync folders right away.
From: Carlos [mailto:carlos1106@...]
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2015 7:38 PM To: TechTalk@groups.io Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Dropbox icon missing from system tray
The "show all icons" setting may have become disabled. If so, to reenable it do the following. "Start" button. 4. Press Alt Enter to open the "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties" dialog. "Notification area Customize..." and press enter. "OK" button to exit the "Notification Area Icons" dialog. "OK" again to exit the "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties" dialog.
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Gene
This is Gene, not Carlos, but I'll present my
speculation.
It may be that Drop Box didn't run for some reason
at boot up. Syncing isn't the issue. The icon should be displayed
when Drop Box is running. If it is syncing, the icon should display some
sort of text about what it is doing. I don't know what may have caused the
icon not to appear immediately but my speculation is that, for some reason, the
program may not have been running.
Gene ----- Original Message -----
From: Sylvia
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2015 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Dropbox icon missing from system
tray Hi Carlos, thanks for these instructions. I feel kind of silly because the icon has now reappeared on its own. I haven’t used this machine in a while because I’ve been in the process of moving so I’m wondering if being on a wireless network makes a difference in terms of dropbox being able to sync folders right away.
From: Carlos
[mailto:carlos1106@...]
The "show all icons" setting may have
become disabled. If so, to reenable it do the following. "Start" button. 4. Press Alt Enter to open the "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties" dialog. "Notification area Customize..." and press
enter. "OK" button to exit the
"Notification Area Icons" dialog. "OK" again to exit the "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties" dialog.
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Carlos
Hi Sylvia,
Being connected wirelessly might delay Dropbox from
synchronizing at startup a bit until your connection to the network is
established, but that shouldn't cause the tray icon to disappear. Even
when I am disconnected from the internet, I still see the icon.
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