Sorry forgot to add that I didn't realize that I could check out if BO clean was installed by going to task manager, something I will remember for next time - thank you for your response.
It's not unusual for some security programs to interfere with the icon loadups ... given all the operating systems that BOClean has to run under, we do NOT check for the presence of the icon if the program is running, and under XP and later, the system itself can often "forget" to display an icon, and when this happens ALL the time, it can be the result of "previous icons" which have been hidden which it will no longer load. But this would be ALL the time, not "hide and seek" ... I suspect one of the other startup proggies you're running might be strangling the traybar ... I've seen that happen before. I know this isn't the answer you're looking to hear, but BOClean does notify the system when it starts ... once we've done that, it's up to Windows.
