Guest Kenny Lee Posted August 2, 2007 Posted August 2, 2007 -- I was wondering if you might be able to help me with something. I was curious as to why icons near the clock (the start up items) are never in the same place when you either turn off your computer or laptop and turn it on again or you do a re-start. Can you please tell me that and what causes this as well. Thank you and have a great day!!! Kenny Lee
Guest Newbie Coder Posted August 2, 2007 Posted August 2, 2007 Re: STARTUP ICONS NEAR THE CLOCK QUESTION! Kenny, Those icons are in the system tray have applications associated with them. Depending on the file size and the process id Windows assigns to them & where they are running from etc. Windows don't assign them a system tray index, but a WindowHandle (hWnd) to identify them. Most system tray apps start: START | ALL PROGRAMS | STARTUP HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Then places like WinLogon in the registry too If you download the Autoruns tool (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/autoruns.mspx) you will see the general startup locations, but if you want a 'Boys Toy' then take a look at MSCONFIG -- Newbie Coder (It's just a name) "Kenny Lee" <KennyLee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:ED1D6D8F-8B06-4947-8F79-0C17E09CF67B@microsoft.com... > > -- I was wondering if you might be able to help me with something. I was > curious as to why icons near the clock (the start up items) are never in the > same place when you either turn off your computer or laptop and turn it on > again or you do a re-start. Can you please tell me that and what causes this > as well. Thank you and have a great day!!! > Kenny Lee
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