Re: How to get rid of icons in system tray?

From: xfile (cou-cou_at_remove.msn.com)
Date: 09/13/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 06:52:27 +0800

Hi:

There are a number of ways to get rid of the icons, some are easier and some
are a bit of complicated. In general, these are programs loaded during
startup.

(1) Click icon property and see if there are options for you to disable it,
(2) Go to Startup and check if there any program shortcuts there, delete any
of them you don't want to,
(3) Go to Control Panel and select those options (e.g. Power, Audio, and so
on) and disable its display on task bar, and
(4) Use utility program (e.g. X-Setup Pro) to examine which programs are
loaded during startup and disable it.

The best mechanism is to disable unnecessary programs (such as updater and
so on) to load in the beginning, and in that case, I would use utility
program such as X-Setup Pro to do the job.

Go to http://www.x-setup.net/

Good luck and hope this will help. 

-- 
Business executive who believes technology but don't want to be messed 
around.
"Patrick" <varois83@netzero.net> 
???????:a3530201.0409131235.376fd710@posting.google.com...
> "Adam  Thompson" <adwulf@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> There's two things you can do:
>>
>> 1) Right click on the task bar, go to properties,
>
> Adam
>
> I did the first solution which was real easy and doesn't involve
> messing up with the registry.
> I still have one question, it seems it gives you the option to hide
> the icons on the taskbar but in fact they are still there if i click
> the arrow down there.
> Like i have one for my PC volume.I can't get rid of it completely.
> Another one was for quicktime which was put in there recently when i
> installed the AOL software for a free trial.I just got rid of it
> completely by right-clicking it and disabling it.
>
> Thanks again
>
> Patrick

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