System Tray Deletion

[Wayne B.]

Could anyone tell me how to delete items from the system
tray. Not to hide them, but to actually take them out
permanently. I've done it thru the registry in win2k, but
I don't know about xp. I know xp is a totally different
animal and I don't want to take the chance of screwing
something up.
THANX N ADVANCE Wayne B.

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Wayne.

It depends on what program put the icon there. Some programs allow you to
specify whether to put an icon there, others don't. If they do allow the
choice, then you need to run that program to make or change the choice. If
the program does not allow you to omit the icon, then you may need to stop
running the program, which may mean deleting them from your Startup folder
or running msconfig.exe to prevent them from starting when you start WinXP.

WinXP is not "totally different" from Win2K. There are some differences,
but mostly WinXP is just Win2K on steroids (in my opinion).

Now for the most important question: WHICH icons?

RC

 

[James Shakesheff]

Wayne

To stop loading programs at startup you can use msconfig.

Goto Start --> Run and type 'msconfig'
The startup tab contains all the items run at start up.
You just want to deselect the ones which you down want to
run.

Then if you want them again, just tick them.

 

[Jim Byrd]

Hi Wayne - There are several approaches you can use to make controlling the
Startup process easier.

1) Use msconfig to control the selected startup programs.

3) As good, but different, is to go here:

http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml and get Mike Lin's Startup Control
Panel applet. A somewhat more difficult to use but more extensive program
to do the same thing is StartupList from here:
http://www.lurkhere.com/~nicefiles/index.html, or even better, Autoruns from
here: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#autoruns. Be
very careful about doing any Registry modifications directly unless you're
comfortable with this, and be sure that you BACKUP your Registry before
making any changes, so that you can recover if something goes wrong.
Changes made with StartUpCPL are less likely to cause problems, and are
usually a matter of just re-enabling the particular program. Another
program of this type that I can recommend is StartMan, free. You'll have to
get it here: http://www.pt.lu/comnet/files/utils/startman10396.exe, as the
pcforest site is, sadly, no longer in business. Another such free program
that I can highly recommend is StartupRun, here: http://nirsoft.cjb.net/,
particularly if you suspect malware problems. If you have problems with
suspected hijackers, you can look up and investigate suspect programs in
your StartUp lists here:
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_pages/startup_full.htm (Recommended)
http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/startup/list.html (Recommended)
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm (Recommended)


All work fine for controlling startups, however, I would recommend getting
one or more from the last paragraph in addition to msconf. They're both
free, and each has some advantages. For example, the XP msconfig also gives
you some visibility/control over services, while Mike's applet offers much
better startup control. Various of the others have their particular useful
characteristics also.

Also, you should read and print out/save for future reference mskb article
Q179365 here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q179365 which will
tell you the order in which things get loaded.

Two additional resources which have useful information relating to startup
issues are:

How to Delay Loading of Specific Services
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;193888

HOWTO: Control Device Driver Load Order
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q115/4/86.asp


Perhaps this will help.


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Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP



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[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

In most cases, one need only open the offending program and
deselect the option to "display icon in the system tray" or to "start
when Windows starts."

Failing that, you can use Start > Run > MSConfig to temporarily
turn off the automatic startup of these programs. MSConfig will also
show you where the commands starting these programs are originating,
so that you can permanently eliminate the source of your irritations.
Look in the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start
Menu\Programs\Start Up and C:\Documents and Settings\username\Start
Menu\Programs\Start Up folders, and in the system registry, primarily
in the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run keys.

How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;310560


Bruce Chambers

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