Tray notification settings get reset...

Most of the time when I restore an image(using Drive Snapshot, Macrium and sometimes AX64) or rebooting from Shadow Defender, the Tray Notification settings get reset back to default. Is this common as I don't recall anyone mentioning it. A slight PITA but I have created a backup of the Tray Notification registry settings which I can restore, then exit and restart explorer.
Any ideas on why this happens?
Thanks

 

LittleDude,

Are you using VSS backups? VSS doesn't backup/restore "everything". Just a guess.

 

I'm not sure(I'm not as knowledgable about these things as most of the members here)...but the service is set to manual. I see Drive Snapshot has it enabled as default. I'll run a few tests in the weekend to see if it makes any difference.
Thanks for your reply.

 

Hi LittleDude

Your issue is a registry issue in regards to the tray notifications. It is baffling as to how this can happen, but in the past, when I had tried to delete a few entries that were no longer installed, I found the registry key and the process in how to reset it as you also mentioned you found.

I am reading more strange issues like this with various disk imagers and all I can say is it is very possible as BrianK mentioned it could be VSS issues, but if I were you, have you tried performing a COLD backup and restore in order to see if that takes care of this issue?

I choose COLD imaging instead of HOT because in my experience, hot imaging CAN cause these issues that COLD imaging does not experience. I think there are certain parts of registry hives that some imagers using VSS simply cannot get a good or proper lock on while performing a hot image backup.

Just my thoughts. Perhaps you could try a cold image backup then a restore to see if indeed it may be VSS related.

Jim