[bigred302]

Hi Folks

You know how the CPU monitor sometimes will stubbornly disappear from the system tray in Win XP? (BTW - this never happens to me in Win 2K). I spent some time looking for a solution and came up with one on my own that worked for me.

I already have a shortcut for taskmgr.exe in my startup folder, so that task manager runs at boot. I have it set to "hide when minimized" so only the system tray icon appears (nothing in taskbar along the bottom).

Well here's the fix for when the system tray icon will not appear when task manager is active:

1. launch task manager (either right click task bar and select task manager, or ctrl-alt-delete and select it)
2. view processes (click Processes tab) and find taskmgr.exe
3. end the process (right click/end process or select it and click End Process)
4. relaunch task manager (see step 1)

This worked for me. Don't know if the problem was a memory leak from an improperly ended previous iteration of the process or what. But I hope this helps.

Regards