Removing Icons-bottom right corner of desktop?

[Guest]

?t the bottom right corner of my desktop (by the time) there are a bunch of
icons. When I restart my computer, it seems that these are causing my
computer to be slow in starting up, as it takes forever for all of these
icons to appear. Once they are there it runs fine. How do I get rid of
these. I went into taskbar and start menue, customize, and changed them to
"Always hide"...BUT THEY ARE STILL THERE.....how can I fix this? For now, I
have been just right clicking and closing/exiting them.

 

[Kelly]

Check for an option to not having the icon load in the System Tray via the
program(s) in question.

Other options for removal:

Go to Start/Run and type in: msconfig. Go to the Startup Tab and uncheck
accordingly. Then run this script to remove the disabled items from the
registry.

Clear Disabled Items from Msconfig Startup and Selective Startup (Line 148)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Or...remove the runkeys from here: Start/Run/Regedit

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

Troubleshooting, Removing and/or Cleaning Add or Remove Programs
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_a.htm#addremove

Troubleshooting the Notification Area
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_n.htm#na

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All the Best,
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[ByTor]

?t the bottom right corner of my desktop (by the time) there are a bunch of
icons. When I restart my computer, it seems that these are causing my
computer to be slow in starting up, as it takes forever for all of these
icons to appear. Once they are there it runs fine. How do I get rid of
these. I went into taskbar and start menue, customize, and changed them to
"Always hide"...BUT THEY ARE STILL THERE.....how can I fix this? For now, I
have been just right clicking and closing/exiting them.

Each individual icon is representative of a program running in the
background and set to do so when windows starts.....One way is to
isolate which ones are for what? Sometimes you can just right click on
each one and see if it has an option to open or settings....Open them up
and go through each one and look for it's individual setting and when
you find it look for options to "start with windows" and uncheck
it.....Now I obviously do not know what's in your startup so the above
description/suggestion would be the first generic approach to resolving
your issue.......
Of course if you have antivirus running and the security center thingy
running leave those alone....Automatic updates can be turned off also
but I leave it to just notify me with new updates...But that's a
personal choice of mine for different reasons, you decide what's best
for you.

 

[Ken Blake]

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?t the bottom right corner of my desktop (by the time)

Note that this portion of the Task Bar is officially called the
"System Notification Area," although most people refer to it
informally as the "System Tray."

there are a
bunch of icons.

These icons represent programs that are running in the
background, and usually (although not always) most of them are
started automatically when you boot the system.

When I restart my computer, it seems that these are
causing my computer to be slow in starting up, as it takes
forever
for all of these icons to appear. Once they are there it runs
fine.

My personal view is that the attention many people pay to how
long it takes to boot is unwarranted. Assuming that the speed is
otherwise satisfactory, it may not be worth worrying about. Most
people start their computers once a day or even less frequently.
In the overall scheme of things, even a few minutes to start up
isn't very important. Personally I power on my computer when I
get up in the morning, then go get my coffee. When I come back,
it's done booting. I don't know how long it took to boot and I
don't care.

How do I get rid of these. I went into taskbar and start
menue,
customize, and changed them to "Always hide"...BUT THEY ARE
STILL
THERE.....how can I fix this? For now, I have been just right
clicking and closing/exiting 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.