Author Topic: Microsoft Security Essentials icon missing (Read 13475 times)

parkd1 · « **on:** October 31, 2013, 08:07:21 pm »

Is there a way to fix the icon so it will show every time the computer is booted up? The icon should be shown in the system tray.

Shane · « **Reply #1 on:** November 02, 2013, 03:17:18 am »

Which version of Windows? Reason I ask is in Vista and newer you can hide any tray icons you want.

At the same time if that isnt the problem the process msseces.exe is what shows the try icon, so make sure it is running

Shane

parkd1 · « **Reply #2 on:** November 02, 2013, 07:45:47 am »

I am running the latest version of Windows 7 with all the updates.

Shane · « **Reply #3 on:** November 05, 2013, 12:54:11 pm »

Did you see if that process is running in the task manger though?

Shane

parkd1 · « **Reply #4 on:** November 05, 2013, 01:19:01 pm »

I will check that out. It does not happen all the time. The next time it happens. I will check to make sure. Yes it is running for now.

parkd1 · « **Reply #5 on:** November 13, 2013, 08:21:55 am »

Found something that may help for this. It seems to be a bug in windows that started back with XP There was patch that was do buy only waorks with XP. Check this out.

http://winhlp.com/node/16

Maybe you can come up with somthing like a work around or a patch to fix this that will work on XP up to 8.1

Shane · « **Reply #6 on:** November 13, 2013, 06:46:40 pm »

I have seen the problem on 7 and 8 as well and it was the sspd service doing it. It was doing something that caused the icons not to load, but when I disabled the service the icons would show up fine. Never found out why it did that though and it was random, after a while it would be fine. Seems to be with something in Windows updates causing it.

Shane