All of the Windows 7 computers on our domain have a broken Notification Area the first time a user logs on to that machine. There are gaps where icons should be, and clicking on a gap doesn't open anything (e.g. the network icon is missing, so users are unsure of how to connect to a wireless network).
If the user logs off and back on, it's fixed from then on for that user. However we use Deep Freeze, so this bug a big problem for us.
The problem is vaguely related to KB945011. That article describes a similar problem, but one that is persistent. I tried loading the default user's registry hive and looking in there, but those keys don't exist there. I did note that the first log on creates an IconStreams
value significantly larger than any consecutive log on.
If it were just a problem with one image, I would just start a new image from scratch, but it's in different images, including ones captured with SCCM 2007 and SCCM 2012. Does anyone else have this problem? Is there a solution?