Startup folder

[Guest]

Hi everyone... I have several annoying problems with my computer... Everytime I startup my computer, in my taskbar, icons that shouldn't be appearing or set to hide, still appear... I find icons to programs no longer installed, and icons that I don't want to see in the taskbar. I try to use the customize button and it doesn't work. Anyone having this problem? I need to dump the past items being stored so they don't load in the taskbar or at startup.
I also need to know how to remove programs safely from the startup folder. I have a program that was uninstalled thru add/remove programs but it remains in the startup folder and its still in the taskbar icons. When I do a search it can't find the program or if it does, it says its been removed already and the icon causes crashes if clicked on. So if you got any ideas on how to fix this, please let me know...

 

[David Candy]

Past icons is irrelevent. The only thing shown are running programs. Therefore if you see the icon there is a program running. Past icons is a list of programs that have previously run so if they run again it knows if it should show or hide a running program. You can't show a non running program. The running program add their icon and windows may hide it but it's still running.

Right click and choose delete.

 

[Guest]

This may help:

Startup and Temporary Files Cleanup:
http://www.fixyourwindows.com/optimizewindows.htm

Good Luck!

 

[Kelly]

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

Troubleshooting the Volume Control Icon
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_v.htm#volume

Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm

 

[Kelly]

That won't help.

 

[Guest]

thanks for the help... if your still around... i'm now trying the fixes at this link, right now. Due to some registry errors, my computer hasn't worked like other XP's should. it's a pain in (_I_) . I've always have problems, with the protective storage system and startup items and temp. files. They never wanna clean out or passwords never are stored, even with being saved to computer and autocomplete/history never works correctly, if it works at all. And if I get autocomplete/history to finally work, I get everyone elses screennames and passwords to popup for the wrong sites and still have to type in the info already saved for that site over and over again.

 

[Kelly]

This workaround works for all, just follow the process.

Go to Start/Run and type in: services.msc
Scroll down to Protected Storage and verify that the service is started.

Outlook Express keeps prompting for your password
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_oe_passwords.htm