Re: system tray
- From: "Ken Blake" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 09:10:01 -0700
In news:buUme.7923$BR4.7671@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Starman <iknowbutidontknow@xxxxxxxxx> typed:
> how do you prevent certain programs from loading up at start-up
> so
> their icons don't also appear in the system tray?
On each program you don't want to start automatically, check its
Options to see if it has the choice not to start. Many can easily
and best be stopped that way. If that doesn't work, run MSCONFIG
from the Start | Run line, and on the Startup tab, uncheck the
programs you don't want to start automatically.
However, if I were you, I wouldn't do this just for the purpose
of running the minimum number of programs. Despite what many
people tell you, you should be concerned, not with how *many* of
these programs you run, but *which*. Some of them can hurt
performance severely, but others have no effect on performance.
Don't just stop programs from running willy-nilly. What you
should do is determine what each program is, what its value is to
you, and what the cost in performance is of its running all the
time. You can get more information about these with at
http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html. If you can't find it
there, try google searches and ask about specifics here.
Once you have that information, you can make an intelligent
informed decision about what you want to keep and what you want
to get rid of.
--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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