System Tray Icons

[JGreg7]

I have many icons on the system tray, and I am trying to shut some of them
off. In some cases I have disabled the start-up of the program so it runs
only when I want it to. In other cases I have set the service to manual or
diasabled it entirely. However, the icon remains running.

Is there an easy way to determine what program is running the icon?

The most nagging icon is the indexing service. I have disabled the
services, but the icon persists.

 

[Rich Barry]

Try rt clicking the System Tray>select Properties>Customize. In the
Behavior Column click the down arrow and choose always hide.

 

[PaulM]

Try this script here: RemoveItems

http://www.paulsxp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=35

 

[JGreg7]

For some reason, my customized button is greyed out. I did a search on this
and found a procedure that is supposed to correct this, however it did not
work.

I will try to resolve this later.

The question I really need answered is how to tell what programs or services
the icon is related to.

In an example, the windows search indexer icon was showing, even though I
turned off the indexing and search services. It did not show up in any of
the startup locations or registry keys. I needed to find out which running
files were related to the icon so I could kill them.