My little orange ball has dandruff....

[msmith1969]

Hi.

For some reason the orange globe in my task bar is covered with little white specks.

Can someone please tell me why?

Thank you.

Mike

[nmb]

Hi,

Could please tell us your system configuration including your OS?

Also, if possible, please post a picture of the system tray icon.

nmb

[msmith1969]

Hi,

Could please tell us your system configuration including your OS?

Also, if possible, please post a picture of the system tray icon.

nmb

Hello.

XP Pro Service Pack 2.

Recently, my only user profile corrupted due to a power company glitch. I managed to restore the profile and everything seemed normal. Then I noticed the dandruff on the globe. Honestly I'm not sure if the dandruff appeared immediately after I restored the profile.

Except for the dandruff Avast seems to be working normally.

Thanks for your interest.

[SpeedyPC]

May I ask why haven't you install XP Service Pack 3

[spg SCOTT]

I did have this problem at one point and a graphics driver update seemed to fix it for the time being, but as I type now...the low res icon is spinning in the tray...exactly like the OP...

Would be nice to fix this...

EDIT:poor image quality, courtesy of windows snipping tool ...all other icons are perfectly fine in resolution...

[Lisandro]

msmith1969, seems that your video/monitor drivers and/or resolution are small or inappropriate.
Can you post more info about your system specifications regarding to this?
Also, how much RAM do you have?

[DavidR]

Looking at your other icons they don't look too good either, see image and compare the avast and WinPatrol icons to yours.

I'm not sure if this might be down to the screen resolution ?
What happens when you display the tray icons and clock in the default windows format for XP pro as per my image ?

What are you using to display the tray icons and date/time it may well have an affect ?

[YoKenny]

Seems like  spg SCOTT has a computer disease that needs to be fixed

Windows Vista or Windows 7

[DavidR]

I think that is partly due to using a gif image type, I normally use .gif but for something like this png or jpg would be closer to what you actually see on screen. As you can see in this .gif example it isn't quite as clear but it still looks OK, but not quite as clear.

[spg SCOTT]

David is right...when you use the snipping tool and save as gif...it makes it kinda hard to show what I meant...

It is vista, but I am not on that machine now...seems a random thing...sometimes it works sometimes I get the funny icon...

[Lisandro]

David, just an off topic curiosity, which is your first icon on system tray (the green one)?

[DavidR]

It is for my programmable wireless optical mouse software, Trust Wireless Laser Mouse (Carbon Edition).

[Lisandro]

It is for my programmable wireless optical mouse software, Trust Wireless Laser Mouse (Carbon Edition).

Thanks. What does it do? A link for it?

[DavidR]

It comes with the mouse, it is the software for it, customisable buttons, tracking speed, wheel scrolling left/right, etc. I don't believe it is available as a stand alone, as presumably it wouldn't work with other mice.

[Lisandro]

It comes with the mouse, it is the software for it, customisable buttons, tracking speed, wheel scrolling left/right, etc. I don't believe it is available as a stand alone, as presumably it wouldn't work with other mice.

Thanks. I'll pass it