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I have an aggravating icon for "C-Media" on my system tray that comes back
like the common cold. There has to be a HKEY that will delete it but no one
in the Microsoft Public XP forums can come up with it.

One did come up with a program (shareware) to control the whole tray but
looking into it, it costs 22 bucks. For 22 bucks, I can right-click on it
and click exit once a day but it got me to thinking maybe some of you know
of such a freebee program to control the tray. Anyone?

Glenn
 
Glenn said:
I have an aggravating icon for "C-Media" on my system tray that comes
back like the common cold. There has to be a HKEY that will delete
it but no one in the Microsoft Public XP forums can come up with it.

One did come up with a program (shareware) to control the whole tray
but looking into it, it costs 22 bucks. For 22 bucks, I can
right-click on it and click exit once a day but it got me to thinking
maybe some of you know of such a freebee program to control the tray.
Anyone?

Glenn
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Download a copy of MSCONFIG for XP and use that to disable it from
starting up.
 
I have an aggravating icon for "C-Media" on my system tray that comes back
like the common cold. There has to be a HKEY that will delete it but no one
in the Microsoft Public XP forums can come up with it.

Glenn
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HKey Local User>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Current Version>Run is where
it resides on my system.
 
Thanks,
I tried that previously and on boot I get a popup something to the effect
that I'm running in diagnostic mode and it says that popup will show every
time on boot. So I went back and re-checked it on.

Glenn
 
Glenn wrote:
| I have an aggravating icon for "C-Media" on my system tray that comes
| back like the common cold. There has to be a HKEY that will delete
| it but no one in the Microsoft Public XP forums can come up with it.
|
| One did come up with a program (shareware) to control the whole tray
| but looking into it, it costs 22 bucks. For 22 bucks, I can
| right-click on it and click exit once a day but it got me to thinking
| maybe some of you know of such a freebee program to control the tray.
| Anyone?
|
| Glenn

If you still wish to take control of your tray, now that you have control of
C-Media;

http://www.traywizard.com/

regards
five
 
I have an aggravating icon for "C-Media" on my system tray that comes back
like the common cold. There has to be a HKEY that will delete it but no one
in the Microsoft Public XP forums can come up with it.

One did come up with a program (shareware) to control the whole tray but
looking into it, it costs 22 bucks. For 22 bucks, I can right-click on it
and click exit once a day but it got me to thinking maybe some of you know
of such a freebee program to control the tray. Anyone?

Glenn
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You don't need any special software, just MSCONFIG, which comes with XP.

Are you sure you want to remove this?
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_pages/startup_c.php
"C-Media produce audio chipsets that are often found on popular
motherboards with on-board audio. Provides System Tray access to change
audio settings."

These links should help. They explain a couple of different ways to
remove the thing, and some important reasons that you might want to
leave it there. Click "complete thread" to see the answers.
<http://groups.google.com/[email protected]>
<http://groups.google.com/[email protected]>
<http://groups.google.com/[email protected]>
 
Glenn mentioned this:
I have an aggravating icon for "C-Media" on my system tray that
comes back like the common cold. There has to be a HKEY that
will delete it but no one in the Microsoft Public XP forums can
come up with it.

One did come up with a program (shareware) to control the whole
tray but looking into it, it costs 22 bucks. For 22 bucks, I
can right-click on it and click exit once a day but it got me to
thinking maybe some of you know of such a freebee program to
control the tray. Anyone?

Glenn
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From: Kelly ([email protected])
Subject: Mixer icon on taskbar
microsoft.public.windowsxp.help and support
MID: <
http://www.google.com/groups?q=C-Media+icon+remove&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8
&scoring=d&selm=eE969wBnCHA.1976%40TK2MSFTNGP11&rnum=12
 
As I said before,I tried that previously and on boot I get a popup something
to the effect that I'm running in diagnostic mode and it says that popup
will show every time on boot. So I went back and re-checked it on.

To my knowledge, I have never used c-media but perhaps I do and don't know
it. For that reason, all I wanted to do was to remove the icon ONLY and
not mess with c-media. Every suggestion so far, removes c-media from
working completely (I think). Speakers seem to still work when I
right-click and hit exit on c-media so maybe I don't need it anyway. I
guess that's why I thought a tray program might be the answer. There is one
mentioned above that I haven't had time to try yet, it may be the answer.

Glenn
 
Glenn said:
Thanks,
I tried that previously and on boot I get a popup something to the
effect that I'm running in diagnostic mode and it says that popup
will show every time on boot. So I went back and re-checked it on.

Glenn
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The popup you get is from the MSCONFIG program. There is a checkmark at
the bottom you can enable to prevent it from showing upon bootup. It
pops up to remind you that you have made a configuration change in case
you want to revert back.
 
OK, Thanks.

badgolferman said:
The popup you get is from the MSCONFIG program. There is a checkmark at
the bottom you can enable to prevent it from showing upon bootup. It
pops up to remind you that you have made a configuration change in case
you want to revert back.
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Thanks five,

It works to hide the c-media icon and a couple others while I was at it.
Too bad there isn't a help file with it for some of the other things it does
but trial and error usually works, doesn't it? [g]

Glenn
 
Thanks Jim,

When all is said and done, I went with the registry removal as per your
suggestion.

I loaded and tried the TrayWizard yesterday but on boot this morning the
c-media icon was back where it was before. Seems it's memory is as bad as
mine is getting to be anymore. I removed it completely (I think). I'll do
a search for it in the regs to see how much of it is left. Deleted via some
program's uninstall recently and found over 100 references to it left in the
regs. If a install puts them in the regs, they should have to remove them
but we all know that doesn't usually happen. ;-)

Thanks ALL!!!!

Glenn
 
badgolferman said:
Download a copy of MSCONFIG for XP and use that to disable it from
starting up.
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I think I'm missing something here. Start > Run > Type "msconfig" will
produce a startup list from which items can be disabled -- I can't see the
need to download anything.

If this fails, a workaround would be to right click on an empty part of the
taskbar, select Properties, then Customize, which will bring up a list the
systray icons. Click on "Hide when inactive" against the offending icon, and
you will have a choice to alter to "Always show" or "Always hide". Choose
the latter and you'll not see the icon again.

===

Frank Bohan
¶ Lady Godiva put everything she had on a horse.
 
Download a copy of MSCONFIG for XP and use that to disable it from
I think I'm missing something here. Start > Run > Type "msconfig" will
produce a startup list from which items can be disabled -- I can't
see the need to download anything.
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You are right. I use W2K and it doesn't come with MSCONFIG so I had to
download it. But the point was to use that program to take care of the
problem.
 
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