System tray is Full of blank Icons - server, SBS

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I had an issue today with the system tray being full of blank icons, you could see nothing and it was causing explorer to crash Run regedit navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\LocalSettings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify 
Delete the two keys IconStreams and PastIconStream 
Stop task explorere.exe 
run explorer.exe 

 all the icons should now be where they are suppose to be

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