TC (10 and also 11) not showing icon in systray

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DallasCZ
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TC (10 and also 11) not showing icon in systray

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Hello some days ago i encoutered a problem with TC. When I run it, it doesnt show the icon in systray.
Please how to fix this?
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Re: TC (10 and also 11) not showing icon in systray

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Did you activate this option? - http://gral.y0.pl/tc/tray.png

EDIT: it's rather taskbar pinned icon?
How do you run TC? By clicking this icon?

Described earlier viewtopic.php?t=77562 - seems there is no trusted solution?
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Re: TC (10 and also 11) not showing icon in systray

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It's possible that your Windows icon cache got damaged. This can happen when Windows tries to update the icon just when the installer is overwriting the executable. It sees that there is a new executable, but Windows Defender blocks it for a few seconds to scan it, so the icon cannot be read and turns blank. Solution: Make Windows rebuild the icon cache.

You can save the following code to a batch file, e.g. fixicons.bat, and then run it to recreate the icon cache:
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
CD /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
mkdir Backup
Attrib -h IconCache.db
Copy /Y IconCache.db %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Backup
del iconcache.db
start C:\Windows\Explorer.exe
Pause
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Re: TC (10 and also 11) not showing icon in systray

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ghisler(Author) wrote: 2023-08-04, 07:57 UTC It's possible that your Windows icon cache got damaged. This can happen when Windows tries to update the icon just when the installer is overwriting the executable. It sees that there is a new executable, but Windows Defender blocks it for a few seconds to scan it, so the icon cannot be read and turns blank. Solution: Make Windows rebuild the icon cache.

You can save the following code to a batch file, e.g. fixicons.bat, and then run it to recreate the icon cache:
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
CD /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
mkdir Backup
Attrib -h IconCache.db
Copy /Y IconCache.db %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Backup
del iconcache.db
start C:\Windows\Explorer.exe
Pause
thank you..this helped.
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