Sound, Power, and/or Network icon disappeared from my system tray.

From anonymous user. This was a unique problem, with an interesting solution. It’s never the first thing you’d think!
Problem:

“The system tray will not show standard system icons for volume, network, and/or power. Standard troubleshooting has failed me! Please, Tim’s Tech Tips, help me! (64-bit Vista Home Premium, all updated completed.)”

Attempt #1:

Let’s try this first – Simply right-click on a blank area of the taskbar, and then click on Properties. Once there, look to the bottom of that window. Do you see the check-boxes for the icons you’re  missing?

Response:

“That was the first place I checked, but in that window, all of the check-boxes are grayed out (pic attached). I’ve checked audio settings and everything, in control panel… no luck! :-(“

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Some old stories that were updated:
T3, Episode 1: Speeding up your computer, using MSConfig
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T3, E3: The "Net User" DOS command, and how to use it. (personal favorite)
T3, Episode 4: How to “Hack” your Windows Password.

Capslock is off, but everything is in caps... and highlights everything when I click!

From user: ABUALTAI

Problem:

"I have a problem with my computer. it will caps lock without pressing the caps lock key and on the desktop when i select any icon it will sellect or the icons on the right side and above how to solve this problem"

Solution:

You have sticky keys or something along those lines turned on.
To deactivate it, try one of the following:
Tap shift 2 times in a row. (This turns off StickyKeys specifically, but there are other accessibility options which can be turned off by doing the following.)
Hold shift and control at the same time for one second.
Hold both shift keys at the same time for one second.
To turn the feature off, open your control panel and go to accessibility options then select the settings for all 3 of those options and turn it on, hit OK, hit apply, then turn it off, hit OK and hit apply, all one-at-a-time. I don’t know why, but windows sometimes doesn’t like to accept the change unless you do it that way.

Alternatively, your shift key is physically stuck. :-P

Hope this helps, Abual!