adding or deleting "Tray" icons HELP!!

[Guest]

can any one tell me how to add or delete icons from the lower right tray in
xp-pro?
thanks for your response...
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Shenan Stanley]

can any one tell me how to add or delete icons from the lower right
tray in xp-pro?

Check in the options for said application - to show or not show a tray icon.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

can any one tell me how to add or delete icons from the lower right
tray in xp-pro?

First, what you presumably want is not just to delete the icon, but to stop
the program the icon represents from starting automatically.

Second, note that you should be concerned with *all* programs that start
automatically, not just with those that go into the tray. Not all
autostarting programs manifest themselves by an icon in the tray.

On each program you don't want to start automatically, check its Options to
see if it has the choice not to start (make sure you actually choose the
option not to run it, not just a "don't show icon" option). 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 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.

 

[Guest]

thanks for taking the time to try to answer! The icon i want in the tray
(yet not to start automaticly) is my ISP Icon. I went to the "options tab"
and it did not offer me that (not that i saw any way)... I am trying to
configure this so that i do not have to drop all the windows i am operating
in just to go online. Is this possible?

 

[Guest]

thank you ken!! I will keep your answer in my Word files...
approprately...however.. what i am trying to do specificly.. is to put the
ISP icon for my dialup into that tray yet not have it on auto...
There seems to be no "options" tab that include that possibility... is there
further councel that can be given from you?... thanks in advance...

 

[RobertVA]

thanks for taking the time to try to answer! The icon i want in the tray
(yet not to start automaticly) is my ISP Icon. I went to the "options tab"
and it did not offer me that (not that i saw any way)... I am trying to
configure this so that i do not have to drop all the windows i am operating
in just to go online. Is this possible?

:

Allow me to clarify:

Icons on the desktop or Quicklaunch toolbar start applications. Icons in
the notification area, which was called the "System Tray" in earlier
versions of Windows, represent SOME running applications. Presence of an
icon in the notification area is under control of the application's
program code.

You need to enable the Quickstart toolbar and drag a copy of the ISP
shortcut there OR right click the shortcut in the start menu's "All
Programs" list and click the option to "pin" the shortcut to the start menu.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

thank you ken!! I will keep your answer in my Word files...

You're welcome. Glad to help.

approprately...however.. what i am trying to do specificly.. is to
put the ISP icon for my dialup into that tray yet not have it on
auto...
There seems to be no "options" tab that include that possibility...
is there further councel that can be given from you?... thanks in
advance...

I'm not sure what you mean by your "ISP Icon," but in general, to minimize
to the Notification Area (aka "System Tray"), programs have to be written to
do this. There is also third-party software available which can add such
functionality, but I have no experience with any of these.