(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 1:03 pm
Post subject: Mysterious icon in system tray with red X. Archived from groups: microsoft>public>win2000>general (more info?)
Greetings, group. I've got an annoying little problem with my
Windows 2000 that keeps cropping up. Often, when coming back from
stand-by, my system tray contains a little icon, a video terminal
with a line descending and turning right, with a red X on the line.
It looks like this:
That's a 2x blowup of my system tray. All but one of the icons
are known to me:
Top Row:
Power Settings
Volume Control
Nvidia Sound Settings
Nvidia Video Settings
Bottom Row:
Epson Printer Settings
English Input Method
***MYSTERY ICON***
Local Area Connection
What the heck *IS* that mystery icon??? Single clicking it
does nothing. Right-click does nothing. Hovering over it
fails to pop-up a tooltip (unlike all my other system-tray
icons). It does not seem to be related to any running process.
So... what is it??? Anyone have any idea of what it is, or
how to find out?
(Note that doing cold shut-down and restart makes it go away
for a few days. But a few days later, it will pop up again,
always after coming off stand-by mode.)
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Robbie Hatley
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 4:03 pm
Post subject: Re: Mysterious icon in system tray with red X. [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
"Robbie Hatley" <lonewolf.DeleteThis@well.com> wrote in message
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>
> Greetings, group. I've got an annoying little problem with my
> Windows 2000 that keeps cropping up. Often, when coming back from
> stand-by, my system tray contains a little icon, a video terminal
> with a line descending and turning right, with a red X on the line.
> It looks like this:
>
> http://www.well.com/~lonewolf/system-tray.gif >
> That's a 2x blowup of my system tray. All but one of the icons
> are known to me
Maybe it's just showing that an external monitor is not connected
> Top Row:
> Power Settings
> Volume Control
> Nvidia Sound Settings
> Nvidia Video Settings
> Bottom Row:
> Epson Printer Settings
> English Input Method
> ***MYSTERY ICON***
> Local Area Connection
>
> What the heck *IS* that mystery icon??? Single clicking it
> does nothing. Right-click does nothing. Hovering over it
> fails to pop-up a tooltip (unlike all my other system-tray
> icons). It does not seem to be related to any running process.
> So... what is it??? Anyone have any idea of what it is, or
> how to find out?
>
> (Note that doing cold shut-down and restart makes it go away
> for a few days. But a few days later, it will pop up again,
> always after coming off stand-by mode.)
>
> --
> Puzzled,
> Robbie Hatley
> lonewolf aatt well dott com
> www dott well dott com slant user slant lonewolf slant
>
>
(Msg. 3) Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 7:58 am
Post subject: Re: Mysterious icon in system tray with red X. [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
In article <r7ydnSDyDLq9TvLVnZ2dnUVZ_tHinZ2d.DeleteThis@giganews.com>,
lonewolf.DeleteThis@well.com says...
>
> Greetings, group. I've got an annoying little problem with my
> Windows 2000 that keeps cropping up. Often, when coming back from
> stand-by, my system tray contains a little icon, a video terminal
> with a line descending and turning right, with a red X on the line.
> It looks like this:
>
> http://www.well.com/~lonewolf/system-tray.gif >
> That's a 2x blowup of my system tray. All but one of the icons
> are known to me:
>
> Top Row:
> Power Settings
> Volume Control
> Nvidia Sound Settings
> Nvidia Video Settings
> Bottom Row:
> Epson Printer Settings
> English Input Method
> ***MYSTERY ICON***
> Local Area Connection
>
> What the heck *IS* that mystery icon??? Single clicking it
> does nothing. Right-click does nothing. Hovering over it
> fails to pop-up a tooltip (unlike all my other system-tray
> icons). It does not seem to be related to any running process.
> So... what is it??? Anyone have any idea of what it is, or
> how to find out?
I would guess it's something network related. Can you double-click it?
How many icons do you have BEFORE the mystery icon shows up? Maybe it is
for some program you have, but never noticed that version?
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 11:34 am
Post subject: Re: Mysterious icon in system tray with red X. [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
It's telling you that the Local Area Network cable is unplugged.
John
Robbie Hatley wrote:
> Greetings, group. I've got an annoying little problem with my
> Windows 2000 that keeps cropping up. Often, when coming back from
> stand-by, my system tray contains a little icon, a video terminal
> with a line descending and turning right, with a red X on the line.
> It looks like this:
>
> http://www.well.com/~lonewolf/system-tray.gif >
> That's a 2x blowup of my system tray. All but one of the icons
> are known to me:
>
> Top Row:
> Power Settings
> Volume Control
> Nvidia Sound Settings
> Nvidia Video Settings
> Bottom Row:
> Epson Printer Settings
> English Input Method
> ***MYSTERY ICON***
> Local Area Connection
>
> What the heck *IS* that mystery icon??? Single clicking it
> does nothing. Right-click does nothing. Hovering over it
> fails to pop-up a tooltip (unlike all my other system-tray
> icons). It does not seem to be related to any running process.
> So... what is it??? Anyone have any idea of what it is, or
> how to find out?
>
> (Note that doing cold shut-down and restart makes it go away
> for a few days. But a few days later, it will pop up again,
> always after coming off stand-by mode.)
>
(Msg. 5) Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 1:38 pm
Post subject: Re: Mysterious icon in system tray with red X. [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
> Maybe it's just showing that an external monitor is not connected
Hmmm. I'd not thought of a video-related explanation.
However, there is no second monitor (or any provision for one) on
my system, nor is my monitor unplugged (else I could not have seen
the icon, nor written a post about it).
As for "external monitor", aren't they all? I haven't seen an
internal monitor since I was working on a TRS80 back in 1978 or so.
So thanks for the tip... but no cigar.
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www dott well dott com slant user slant lonewolf slant
(Msg. 6) Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 1:53 pm
Post subject: Re: Mysterious icon in system tray with red X. [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
So I thought, but it does not correspond to any network i can detect.
> Can you double-click it?
Yes, I sure can.
Oh, you mean, does anything HAPPEN when I double-click it?
Yes! I hear two clicks! Other than that, nothing happens.
> How many icons do you have BEFORE the mystery icon shows up? Maybe it is
> for some program you have, but never noticed that version?
I suppose that's possible, but if so, it must be one of the background
daemons. It's not related to an application program.
I'm thinking it has to do with the order in which processes are restarted
when coming back from stand-by. If they're restarted in the wrong order,
a process may be started at a time when a prerequisite process is not yet
started, and paint that icon. Later, the prerequisite starts, and the
process that painted the icon resumes normal operation, but the programmer
neglected to write code to erase the icon. That's my current guess.
(Which may, of course, be dead wrong.)
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Robbie Hatley
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www dott well dott com slant user slant lonewolf slant
(Msg. 7) Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 2:07 pm
Post subject: Re: Mysterious icon in system tray with red X. [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
"John John (MVP)" wrote of my "mystery icon":
> It's telling you that the Local Area Network cable is unplugged.
Well, if my network is unplugged, how are these messages getting
into Usenet? Besides, I already have a network icon.
But let me unplug my cable for a minute and see what happens.
:::unplugs ethernet cable:::
Wow, now I have 2 identical icons, each a video terminal with
a line that descends and turns right, with a red X on the line.
:::plugs ethernet cable back in:::
Now back to one regular network icon, and one "red-X" icon.
I think I see what happened, now. On coming back from stand-by,
Windows tries to start a program that requires a network connection,
but the network is not up yet, so Windows displays a red-X icon.
After the network comes up, it also displays the normal network
icon, but fails to erase the "red-X" one, which then stays there
forever. A bug in the code that handles network icons in system
tray.
If my guess is right, if I don't restart the system for a while
and just put it in stand-by every night, after a while I'll
collect a whole slew of red-X icons in my system tray. That
ought to be fun, now that I know its harmless.
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Cheers,
Robbie Hatley
lonewolf aatt well dott com
www dott well dott com slant user slant lonewolf slant
(Msg. 8) Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 4:56 pm
Post subject: Re: Mysterious icon in system tray with red X. [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
"Robbie Hatley" <lonewolf.RemoveThis@well.com> wrote in message
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>
> I think I see what happened, now. On coming back from stand-by,
> Windows tries to start a program that requires a network connection,
> but the network is not up yet, so Windows displays a red-X icon.
> After the network comes up, it also displays the normal network
> icon, but fails to erase the "red-X" one, which then stays there
> forever. A bug in the code that handles network icons in system
> tray.
Noooooo. It means you have 2 network adapters. Open "Network and Dial-up
Connections" in control panel. One of them may be a virtual adapter. If
you don't need it, disable it, or delete it if it's virtual.
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