Taskbar icon problems

[adsmithy]

Hi,

I couldn't find anything on this with a search.

The icons loaded at startup in my taskbar are not always the same. Sometimes I will get the whole lot thats fine, but on other occasions it will miss out a few.
I've had this problem on other XP installs aswell, and never sorted it.

Anyone else have this issue?

 

[adsmithy]

Have you got hide inactive icons enabled? Right-click taskbar, properties.

Yes that's enabled. I thought this just hides the icons, rather then stop them from loading altogether.

For example, I just switched on my computer from off, rather then a restart and it hasn't loaded the sound volume icon (which is set to "place icon in the taskbar". It also logged me onto Messenger, without placing the messenger icon in the taskbar. It was only until I executed Messenger manually, that I got the icon to appear.

Something else; I have my USB stick plugged in and I don't have the "safely remove hardware" icon.

OK after a restart, I now have my volume icon back again, but still no "safely remove hardware" whys it so inconsistant?