remove system tray icons

[Guest dtp1965@gmail.com]

Last few weeks I've installed and uninstalled some trial software. Now

I've noticed viewing the system tray icons in the start bar, that

there are still some system tray icons present which should not be

there. They are in the not active list. I'm sure they're not working

(turning them on , and in doeing so not hiding them, doesn't make them

appear). They seem to be leftovers of programs I've uninstalled. But

how can I completely remove them? I can't see which program they'd

belong to. They aren't present in the startup list of msconfig as far

as I can tell. They are only present on my windows account so in

regedit it's somewhere in 'current user'. So where in the register

does windows store my active/nonactive system tray icons? Or how can I

remove them completely? But only those 3, not every system tray icon?

Or how to find out which program they belonged to?

[Guest Big Al]

Re: remove system tray icons

 

dtp1965@gmail.com wrote:

> Last few weeks I've installed and uninstalled some trial software. Now

> I've noticed viewing the system tray icons in the start bar, that

> there are still some system tray icons present which should not be

> there. They are in the not active list. I'm sure they're not working

> (turning them on , and in doeing so not hiding them, doesn't make them

> appear). They seem to be leftovers of programs I've uninstalled. But

> how can I completely remove them? I can't see which program they'd

> belong to. They aren't present in the startup list of msconfig as far

> as I can tell. They are only present on my windows account so in

> regedit it's somewhere in 'current user'. So where in the register

> does windows store my active/nonactive system tray icons? Or how can I

> remove them completely? But only those 3, not every system tray icon?

> Or how to find out which program they belonged to?

Use google and "system tray icons".

You'll get a ton.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,73163-page,1/article.html

etc.

[Guest dtp1965@gmail.com]

Re: remove system tray icons

 

Well, hello.... already did that :-)

Went to msconfig to look for startup programs , but not a trace of

what it could be there. The programs involved seem to be completely

uninstalled. All that's left are 3 traces of system tray icons which

nog are in the 'not active' list and don't belong to anything (well ,

it's not in startup programs). Where in regedit in my account are

these icons saved?

[Guest Big Al]

Re: remove system tray icons

 

dtp1965@gmail.com wrote:

> Well, hello.... already did that :-)

> Went to msconfig to look for startup programs , but not a trace of

> what it could be there. The programs involved seem to be completely

> uninstalled. All that's left are 3 traces of system tray icons which

> nog are in the 'not active' list and don't belong to anything (well ,

> it's not in startup programs). Where in regedit in my account are

> these icons saved?

Sorry about that. I've been doing the same thing that you did and you

know, you're right. I'm not getting that far either. That article

looked good but it didn't do much. It hit the basics too, and if you

got any head on your shoulders you've done the same things they suggest.

I'll watch this thread. I don't have the issue, but this sounds like

something everyone may run into some day.! Good luck.

[Guest dtp1965@gmail.com]

Re: remove system tray icons

 

Found it ! :-)

 

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B283084&x=13&y=17