hwt do you call those little icons on task bar on the right

[Guest]

Hi. You know those little icons i'm talking about? right?
next to the clock on task bar. Those are great for application i use a lot
but annoying for rarely used apps. Plus they run in the background.

How do i mange them. Delete or add new ones.

Please. Thank You
Luc

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

Hi. You know those little icons i'm talking about? right?
next to the clock on task bar. Those are great for application i use
a lot but annoying for rarely used apps. Plus they run in the
background.

How do i mange them. Delete or add new ones.

Please. Thank You
Luc

Open the programs and find the option to load at startup.

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[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Hi. You know those little icons i'm talking about? right?
next to the clock on task bar. Those are great for application i use
a lot but annoying for rarely used apps. Plus they run in the
background.

How do i mange them. Delete or add new ones.

Please. Thank You
Luc

You mean the icons in the system tray.
You can follow Frank's advice, but you can also disable startup items using
msconfig (start, run, msconfig <enter>, startup tab)

 

[Kenny]

FInd out which programs they relate to then look in the options for that
program to stop them running at Startup.
Otherwise in the Run box type "msconfig", no quotes and go to Startup tab.
Uncheck any you don't want running at Startup. Don't disable your antivirus
or firewall.

 

[Ken Blake]

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Hi. You know those little icons i'm talking about? right?
next to the clock on task bar. Those are great for application
i use
a lot but annoying for rarely used apps. Plus they run in the
background.

There's no special name for the icons, but the place where they
are is called the "System Notification Area," or, less formally,
the "System Tray."

How do i mange them. Delete or add new ones.

They are put there by code in the applications themselves. You
can't add new ones yourself, at least not without writing the
application yourself, or using a third-party program that
provides this capability.

As far as deleting them, 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.

 

[Rock]

Hi. You know those little icons i'm talking about? right?
next to the clock on task bar. Those are great for application i use a lot
but annoying for rarely used apps. Plus they run in the background.

How do i mange them. Delete or add new ones.

Please. Thank You
Luc

In Windows XP that's called the notification area, formerly the sys tray.

Another option if you can't stop it from loading at startup through the
program's options is to look in the startup folders for the reference to
it and remove:

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

For those you want to keep but don't want to see the icon you can hide
it. Right click on a blank area of the Taskbar, choose Properties,
Taskbar tab, Customize. For each icon there is a choice of always hide,
always show, or hide when inactive.

There is no way that I know of to make a program display as an icon in
this area. That is a function of how the program was written.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

In Windows XP that's called the notification area, formerly the
sys
tray.

Just a bit of trivia, but it was actually always called the
"notification area," even way back in Windows 95. "System Tray"
wasn't its *former* name, just an informal name for it.

Here's a Microsoft link to a Windows 95 page calling it the
"notification area":
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;139408

 

[Rock]

In



Just a bit of trivia, but it was actually always called the
"notification area," even way back in Windows 95. "System Tray"
wasn't its *former* name, just an informal name for it.

Here's a Microsoft link to a Windows 95 page calling it the
"notification area":
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;139408

Ahh thanks.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

Ahh thanks.

You're welcome.