Disappearing HouseBot System Tray Icon

spike5884 · Post by **spike5884** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 7:44 am

Using WinXP. "Hide inactive icons" is unchecked.

I have HouseBot server set to minimize to the system tray. There will be occasions where the icon for HB server will disappear from the system tray. Task manager shows that it is still running. The icon is just not there. I then have no way to access the HB server. I have to reboot the pc to get the icon back.

Any thoughts?

starfire · Post by **starfire** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 6:48 am

Yes, I am getting this with Windows 2000 server also - any way we can get access back to Housebot when you can see it running in taskmanager but the icon has disappeared?

spike5884 · Post by **spike5884** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:43 am

Good! I was not going crazy. Looks like you and I are the only ones with this issue. I have basically decided to live with it going the taskbar instead of the system tray.

starfire · Post by **starfire** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 9:48 am

I *think* it *may* be a Windows issue though 'cause I noticed that my Supervisioncam icon also disappeared at the same time, although again its still running in the process list.

My system typically stays up for weeks without a reboot and I only notice this after a long period of time.

Would be nice if there was a way to send a command to HB to get it to pop up its window though.

Post by **Richard Naninck** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:34 pm

Some icons always disappear when the desktop is reset for some reason. I have that happen sometimes when trying to play a movie that is not rendered right. It looks like a fast windows reset or something. Rebooting the system should not at all be necessary. Just go to the taskmanager, end the HBServer process and restart it again. If that doesn't bring your icon back, something else is really wrong. I am talking about Windows XP SP2 btw. I don't know of a way to bring these lost icons back. If somebody knows a solution to that, I would also be very interested.

yaccri · Post by **yaccri** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:57 am

I also experience this issue (as well as other issues).

I stopped reporting issues after realizing that no fixes are expected