Grouping In System Tray --Removing Objects--

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Braydon Nelson

When I right click on my taskbar, activate the hide inactive icons
options, when I go to configure I have a list of about 100+ items. How
do I remove these items?

I'm pretty sure its a registry group somewhere, but I cannot find it.


Thanks
 
Braydon said:
When I right click on my taskbar, activate the hide inactive icons
options, when I go to configure I have a list of about 100+ items. How
do I remove these items?

I'm pretty sure its a registry group somewhere, but I cannot find it.


Thanks
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Any Help??
 
I´m sorry but your post is unclear. You probaby mean "right-click on my
Start button, select Properties, in the Taskbar pane check the Hide inactive
icons button" or another method to achieve the same. What is exactly the
problem? Is it that you have too may icons in the System Tray? They all have
been put there by some programs. Some of them -but surely no more than 10-
originate from the operating system, so what has happened?
 
Andre said:
I´m sorry but your post is unclear. You probaby mean "right-click on my
Start button, select Properties, in the Taskbar pane check the Hide inactive
icons button" or another method to achieve the same. What is exactly the
problem? Is it that you have too may icons in the System Tray? They all have
been put there by some programs. Some of them -but surely no more than 10-
originate from the operating system, so what has happened?
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Didn't see your response, and I composed a new message which is
hopefully more clear. However partially yes this is the problem. Except
these are past items, and do not show up in the system tray, merely in
the configuration box. My new item is titled hide inactive icons
removing past items (i believe)

Thanks
 
You're sure having a bad comprehension day today, Andre.

Braydon is asking about 'Customise Notifications/PAST ITEMS - removal of"
Nothing has happened, it's quite normal for XP to stockpile many of these,
how to remove them was the question.

BTW, it's easier to access them by rt-clicking on the clock - that takes you
straight to the 'Customise Notifications' link.
 
Braydon Nelson said:
When I right click on my taskbar, activate the hide inactive icons
options, when I go to configure I have a list of about 100+ items. How
do I remove these items?

I'm pretty sure its a registry group somewhere, but I cannot find it.
Click to expand...

Kelly's link, below. Click on "N", then scroll down to the Notification
Area tips.
 
dev said:
Braydon Nelson said:




Kelly's link, below. Click on "N", then scroll down to the Notification
Area tips.
Click to expand...

Ahh thanks, except I don't want a program to do it. I want to do this
manually.
 
It's read from the registry on logon and written on logoff by explorer. Therefore you must terminate explorer first (Ctrl + Alt + Delete).

Then start Regedit and go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify
Delete the two streams values.

Can you tell me why you care?
 
Probably for the same reason that people insist on running Registry cleaners
just to save a few KBs and finish up with a reinstall, David.
 
I think you misunderstood me. I only want to remove certain past items
from the configure box. This will not do that.
 
Please don't post the same query twice. My reply to to your other identical
post was -

"No, but why do you WANT (redundant) past items?
After rebooting, all your current items will reappear & you only have to
reconfigure them again to always show or whatever.

Take it or leave it alone.
 
It's an undocumented stream. A lot of it is unicode text. You can see if you can tell where one item start and stops and try removing just that part.
 
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