Re: Can I park the System Tray somewhere else?

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Ed wrote:
My System tray has become so overloaded with icons for every little thing that there's hardly room left for open files. I've had to raise the height of my bottom bar to avoid having to use the elevator arrows. Can I disconnect the System Tray and park it somewhere else? I could spare a sliver of width better than another strip of height.

Ed




The system tray cannot be separated from the task bar. If you have too many icons showing there, wouldn't it be much simpler to just "turn off" those applications whose icons you don't want to see in the system tray? (Also, you do realize, don't you, that for each icon in the system tray, there is an application running in the background, sucking up system resources and slowing down the computer?)

In most cases, with "well-mannered" applications, it's usually as
simple as opening the undesired program and deselecting the option to
"display icon in the system tray" or to "start when Windows starts."

Additionally, Look in the C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Start Menu\Programs\Start Up and C:\Documents and
Settings\username\Start Menu\Programs\Start Up folders, and in the
system registry, primarily in the
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run keys.

How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;310560


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