System tray icons

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I have set a lot of the system icons to be hiddend and in most cases this
works. However, the Local Area connection icons (two of them with red
crosses) keep coming back in the tray even though I have set these to be
hidden time and again.

Is there a way of stopping this happening?
 
Hi

Have you tried hiding the icons from within the progam(s) themselves?

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Yes, I've unchecked both "Show icon in notification area......." and "Notify
me when.............." in the properties of the Local Area Connections

Makes no difference. The icons are hidden when I change setting in the
taskbar settings but revert back when the machine is rebooted.


Hi

Have you tried hiding the icons from within the progam(s) themselves?

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Will Denny
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If you haven't succeeded doing that, then try the "Hide Inactive Icons"
under the taskbar > customise options (right click the Start button,
Properties, Task Bar tab, then "Hide Inactive Icons".

This obviously doesn't unload the icons, but at least clears up the Systray
area.

The other thing you might consider is using MSconfig to un-check each
program that loads an icon (I don't know how easy it is to identify each
program).

Or SysInternals might help (available on Microsoft.com).
 
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