Thanks Sylvia, its been a year now...
Email & tray has never worked on my 64 bit win 8.1 box.
All versions since Matrix8 were fine on both W2K & XP3 on same box.
Everything works fine except notifications: eMail & Icons, weather verifing or degraded,
no way to know what its doing unless the GUI is running or you happen to catch BIOS.
Asus P7P55D Deluxe, i5 650, 12gb, ICH10R, 3x RAID1, boots off SSD + 2 data HDDs on 10R chipset.