How to get printer icon back in systems tray?

Restarting Explorer worked for me… Open a DOS box and issue the following commands:

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
explorer.exe

Again, any computer questions must be filled with detail – at least the OS.

I’ll assume you are running WinXP. If so….
– right-click on the “start” button
– select “properties”
– select the “taskbar” tab
– click the “customize” button
– find the printer icon you want to show in your systray
– click the value in the “behavior” column and change to “Always show”
– click OK

Sorry, I’m running Windows Vista, which I detest.

re: Vista – Sorry to hear that @AshlynM. Vista is really an unfortunate piece of vomit. However, it shouldn’t be too different to set the systray icon visibility.
– right-click on the taskbar and click “Properties”
– click the “Notification Area” tab
– I believe there is either a “customize” button or the option to uncheck “Hide inactive icons”.