How to fix system tray icons not displayed properly

Many a times when the windows boot, the tray icons like volume control icon, network status icon, safely remove hardware icon etc. which should be visible in the tray are not visible properly.
In such a case, many a times you will find volume control button missing, or you will find Safely remove hardware icon missing, or any other useful tray icon which you frequently use.
Why are tray icons not loaded properly?
At the time when windows is booting, there are many processes which are simultaneously being launched. All these are running in parallel waiting for the CPU turn. Some times when the CPU is busy with some processes, windows misses to properly load the icons.

Lets see how to fix this issue.
Fix:

The fix is simple, whenever you find that the tray icons are not properly loaded, you can restart explorer task. This will freshly build all the tray, task-bar and desktop icons.

To restart the explorer task, we have made a small windows-batch file which you can download from here. Just download and save this file on your computer. Double-click on this file and it will re-start the explorer task for you. After this, all the tray icons will be loaded properly.

For those who like to do it manually, open the command prompt and type the following two commands one by one:

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
explorer.exe

We Hope you find this handy and useful.

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