Recycle bin and tray icons keep going away!!!

Hello. For the past month or so, whenever I "empty" (not delete) my Recycle Bin, it vanishes entirely until I hit F5 to refresh. I've tried changing the icons and then changing them back, but to no avail.

In addition, everytime I start my computer, there are tray icons missing (such as the battery power icon and lightscribe) and I have to log off and log back on again to get them back, sometimes multiple times. I tried deleting the pasticon whatever line in the registry and that works the first time, but that's it. What keeps causing this to happen? Thanks.

 

Have you tried a scan with your antivirus and or an adware program? Sounds to me either you have some nasty running in the background or your windows has an error somewhere in the registry. As it seems you have already checked the registry and are knowledgable about those systems, it would lead me to think you have the first problem.

BBGus

 

First, make sure you do what "BBGus" suggests, check to make sure you don't have a virus.

A couple of months ago I had a problem with my Vista Icons not displaying correctly or missing. Similar but not exactly the same problem as you are having. After Googling for answers I came on the following which worked for me. You might give it a try. I copied the following text from someones post in a forum on the web (for future reference) but I couldn't tell you where. The first of the two methods worked for me.

How To Purge & Rebuild The Icon Cache In Vista.
If you find that one or more of your icons are not displaying correctly, or that your icon cache is corrupted, you might want to consider rebuilding your icon cache.
To do so, Open Windows Explorer, and configure your Folder Options > Views to show Hidden / System Files. Next go to C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local folder and delete the hidden IconCache.db file. Reboot. This action will purge and rebuild the icon cache.

There is also another way to do it, should the above method not work for you.
Kill Explorer.exe process. To do so, click Start button > Hold down Ctrl+Shift & Right Click on empty area in the Start Menu > Click "Exit Explorer".
Click Ctrl+Shift+Esc keys and open Task Manager.
Click File > New Task > cmd.exe > OK. This will open the command prompt.
Type cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
Click OK
Type attrib –h IconCache.db
Click OK
Type del IconCache.db
Click OK
Type start explorer
Click OK.
Your Vista Icon Cache would have been rebuilt.