status bar's notification area - hides some not others

[Jeff Hopkins]

Hi,

Two questions, please

1. When I click on the notification area of the status bar and set some
programs to "always hide" - why does WindowsXP hide some of them but not
others?

for example - these it will not hide
Volume
Safely Remove Hardware
Realtek HD Audio Manager
IntelliPoint


2 - I suspect a similar question like this has been asked and answered on
this newsgroup, and asking it again frustrates many people. So how do we
search past messages from such a newsgroup?

I would appreciate help on either one.

 

[Rock]

Hi,

Two questions, please

1. When I click on the notification area of the status bar and set some
programs to "always hide" - why does WindowsXP hide some of them but not
others?

for example - these it will not hide
Volume
Safely Remove Hardware
Realtek HD Audio Manager
IntelliPoint

2 - I suspect a similar question like this has been asked and answered on
this newsgroup, and asking it again frustrates many people. So how do we
search past messages from such a newsgroup?

I would appreciate help on either one.

Though I don't have the same icons as you, there are several on this system
that stay hidden for a few reboots, then randomly appear again. I don't
know why, and haven't figured out how to stop it. I just re-hide the icons
if it bothers me. Maybe someone else will jump in with a definitive answer.

On the second question, use Google to search www.google.com, and to search
newsgroup contents, the best tool is Google Groups Advanced search.
Searches can be done in a particular newsgroup, filtered by keywords,
subject, author and data.

http://groups.google.com/advanced_search?q=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en

 

[darkrats]

Some items can hide themselves. There's a setting in the Control Panel to
hide the volume icon, there's a setting in the Realtek application that
hides the HD icon etc. But, if you want to hide and control all those icons,
get a copy of PS Tray factory. That will do it all.