Too many items in system tray can slow the system?

[Guest]

I have two many items in my system tray like WinDVD, Yahoo Messenger, HP
Printer etc.,I am unable to change the options to make the icons not show up
in the system tra.

Does having too many icons in my system tray slow down the system
performance.
Is there an easier way in windows xp to disable these system trya icons and
start up programs.

Thanks

 

[Tim Slattery]

I have two many items in my system tray like WinDVD, Yahoo Messenger, HP
Printer etc.,I am unable to change the options to make the icons not show up
in the system tra.

Does having too many icons in my system tray slow down the system
performance.

Each of those icons represents a program that's running on your
machine. So each one is taking RAM and CPU time. Left-click each one
and see whether there's an option to shut it down. Right-click the
ones that are left, and see what you can find there.

You can also use Start|Run and type msconfig in the box, then choose
the "Startup" tab in the app that appears. Here you can choose what
starts up when you start your machine.

 

[Rock]

I have two many items in my system tray like WinDVD, Yahoo Messenger, HP
Printer etc.,I am unable to change the options to make the icons not show
up
in the system tra.

Does having too many icons in my system tray slow down the system
performance.
Is there an easier way in windows xp to disable these system trya icons
and
start up programs.

Depending on what is started automatically when XP boots, they can slow down
boot up. Whether they impact performance depends on your system, CPU, hard
drives, how much RAM is there, and what programs are running. To stop one
of these items from starting when XP starts first step should be to check in
the options for the program you don't want to start and see if there is a
setting to tell it not to run at startup. The next step is to remove any
entries you don't want from the two startup folders:

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

For anything else uncheck their entries in the startup tab of msconfig:
Start | Run | Msconfig | Ok

Another option is to remove the reference to them from one of these keys in
the registry:

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

Make sure you have a backup of the registry using a program like ERUNT
before making any changes to the registry.

ERUNT
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt

Installing and Using ERUNT
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html
http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm