Another Update

Just noticed it today. My system went out-of-date (5 day un-updated), showing the Norton usual warning changing its green ticked icon to orange exclamation mark icon. So I connected it to internet and updated it. But unfortunately I had two icons on start-up and only one of it went back to green tick icon after complete updating. Went to GUI of Norton and checked, update time was right, no orange or red notifications but the green ones. Tried to re-try update manually, but no result, but restarting made it go out of my computer. It drives me crazy.

Norton Multiple Icon In System Tray Forum / Community Discussions and Solutions

One of the common problem experienced by Norton users / customers for a long time is the presence of multiple tray icons at same time in the system tray. First of all I would like to tell that its has nothing to do with the security. Your security is not compromised due to this issue.

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Usually these multiple icons are identical like in figures in Fig.:1. Looking at the Event Viewer of Microsoft Windows will not give any clue of this issue. Neither the Task Manager or Resource and Performance Monitor will. Listing the processes (Using option Show processes from all users) in task manager will show two instances of Norton product in which one is owned by SYSTEM and another owned by currently logged-in user. This phenomena is normal i.e., in a normally performing system, there will be TWO INSTANCES OF NORTON ( but only just one tray icon).

Quoting F4E  “you'll only have the normal two instances of nis.exe running in Task Manager.”

While left or right clicking on any of these icons, you’ll see that all options are identical. Some users call this as a ‘cosmetical error’ which better suits this.

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