Discussion Locked

Icons disappear

0 helpful
3 replies
Closed to new repliesThis discussion is closed. It stays readable, but it takes no new replies.

I manage network with 30 computers (active directory)
Every user has a profile on the server (2003 standard)
I have a problem of icons and sys tray disappearing when some user
Logon and sync begin. After refreshing display everything is normal.

3 replies

by bfilmfan

That sounds almost like a bandwidth issue. Does this happen on every system when it logs in?

What speed is the network?

Is the network switched?

10 Megabyte Unswitched network could quickly be overloaded if 30 users logged in and began downloading their profiles from the server.

Are you seeing high CPU and network card utilization on the server?

by ken g.

I am having the same issue but with only two of my networked machines; both WinXP Pro. The rest of my boxes (5 of them) are running XP Home and the issue is not affecting them. These machines are in a Workgroup w/ SP2 on all.

I've dug through Google, KBalertz (http://www.kbalertz.com) and Microsoft's KB archive and have yet to discover an answer to this complexity.

The only workaround that I'm aware of is rather than log-off and then on to different accounts (which is when this happens) I just restart the machine.

HTH :)

This discussion is closed to new replies.