Notification icons not showing (system tray items hidden)

I was gone a while from my computer, and I left Ventrillo on.. I usually keep it minimized to the system tray (beside the clock)

And anyway it is usually visible, because I am always using it..

well anyway it is hidden now. Its open, I hear the beep when I press the talk button so I know its working properly.

I have set the Notification area icons to "always show all icons and notifications on the taskbar"

but it doesn't show up... as well as a few other programs I have noticed over the times..

No mater what settings I do in the "Notification area Icons" control panel, nothing makes them show!

The only way I can really get to them is by going into task manager, closing the program, and re open it, and hope it doesn't go back to system tray by default..

If that happens I have to reset (only has happened once so far but that was my fault I think)

thanks

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