how to provent icon be showing in the notification area of the taskbar?

[xcomplus]

Whenever I start my PC, the icon for RealPlayer is shown
flinking in the notification area of the taskbar. How can
I provent this from happenning? BTW, where XP gets the
executable's information that are shown in the
notification area and has them running when startup?

 

[Ken Simmons [MSFT]]

Hello,

Try running Regedit and look in:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Regards,

Ken Simmons

Microsoft Technical Support for Platforms and Business Applications

 

[dev]

xcomplus said:

Whenever I start my PC, the icon for RealPlayer is shown
flinking in the notification area of the taskbar. How can
I provent this from happenning? BTW, where XP gets the
executable's information that are shown in the
notification area and has them running when startup?

Open RealPlayer, and access its OPTIONS or PREFERENCES menus. Click
through the tabs until you come upon the "starts when Windows starts",
"show icon in tray" or similar language...and disable it.

 

[Peter Morris]

Whenever I start my PC, the icon for RealPlayer is shown
flinking in the notification area of the taskbar. How can
I provent this from happenning? BTW, where XP gets the
executable's information that are shown in the
notification area and has them running when startup?

follow these steps:

right click on the taskbar, select 'properties' from the menu,
check the 'hide inactive icons' checkbox,
click the 'customize' button,
select realplayer from the list,
change to 'Always hide'
Click OK
Click OK