system tray maintenance

[Guest Joe Palazzo]

How do I remove unwanted icons from my system tray?

[Guest David Webb]

Re: system tray maintenance

 

First, check the preference/configuration settings of each application or

utility that has an active icon in the systray. In many cases there will be an

option to enable or disable its presence.

 

For those that have no such option, you could use the msconfig utility to

disable. To use this utility, click on Start > Run then type msconfig then click

on OK to run. Click on the Startup tab for a listing. Be careful of what you

disable.

 

Note that there are some icons that are necessary for notification purposes,

such as anti-virus or anti-spyware. These should not be removed in any case. The

systray also known as the Notification area.

 

"Joe Palazzo" <JoePalazzo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> How do I remove unwanted icons from my system tray?

[Guest M.I.5¾]

Re: system tray maintenance

 

 

"Joe Palazzo" <JoePalazzo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> How do I remove unwanted icons from my system tray?

 

The easiest way is to hide them. Right click on the taskbar and select

properties. Click on the Customize (sic). From there you can make icons

always visible, always hidden or hidden if inactive (i.e. unused for a

period of time).

[Guest Joe Palazzo]

Re: system tray maintenance

 

Thanks, guys.

 

"M.I.5¾" wrote:

>

> "Joe Palazzo" <JoePalazzo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:747F9754-3F42-45B4-B91F-1C5E9BE33C47@microsoft.com...

> > How do I remove unwanted icons from my system tray?

>

> The easiest way is to hide them. Right click on the taskbar and select

> properties. Click on the Customize (sic). From there you can make icons

> always visible, always hidden or hidden if inactive (i.e. unused for a

> period of time).

>

>

>

[Guest Ken Blake, MVP]

Re: system tray maintenance

 

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 06:12:04 -0700, Joe Palazzo

<JoePalazzo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> How do I remove unwanted icons from my system tray?

 

 

The system tray (officially known as the System Notification Area)

contains icons for running programs, usually programs running in the

background, and usually programs that start automatically when you

boot. I assume that what you really want to do is not just remove the

icon, but stop the programs from starting automatically.

 

First, note that you should be concerned with *all* programs that

start automatically, not just with those that go into the tray. Not

all autostarting programs manifest themselves by an icon in the tray.

 

On each program you don't want to start automatically, check its

Options to see if it has the choice not to start (make sure you

actually choose the option not to run it, not just a "don't show icon"

option). Many can easily and best be stopped that way. If that doesn't

work, run MSCONFIG from the Start | Run line, and on the Startup tab,

uncheck the programs you don't want to start automatically.

 

However, if I were you, I wouldn't do this just for the purpose of

running the minimum number of programs. Despite what many people tell

you, you should be concerned, not with how *many* of these programs

you run, but *which*. Some of them can hurt performance severely, but

others have no effect on performance.

 

Don't just stop programs from running willy-nilly. What you should do

is determine what each program is, what its value is to you, and what

the cost in performance is of its running all the time. You can get

more information about these at

http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html. If you can't find it there,

try google searches and ask about specifics here.

 

Once you have that information, you can make an intelligent informed

decision about what you want to keep and what you want to get rid of.

 

--

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User

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