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Old 06-01-2008   #2 (permalink)
solon fox


 
 

Re: How to Edit Notification icons

On Jun 1, 2:12*pm, "mikeS" <login...@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> Using Vista Business. *Would like to manage or at least edit my notification
> icons. *Have many "historical" ones that should never have been there and
> would like to remove them. *I'm about to drill down through the registrybut
> maybe there is a better way. * Even better, any suggestions for a utility to
> be able to manage them? *Thanks.
Many notification icons can be removed by right clicking the
notification icon and selecting Exit, Close or Quit. Some have program
settings or preferences that control whether or not they are displayed
in the notification area. Others, you might want to uninstall the
program entirely.

Sometimes, you might not want to uninstall the program, but remove it
from Startup. Go to Start, run msconfig.exe, on the Startup tab
uncheck the boxes of the programs you do not want to run at Startup.
Many of those programs also have settings where you could deselect run
at Startup in order to remove them entirely from the Startup list.

Personally, I'd prefer to do things through each application's
settings than hack the registry for this type of thing.

-solon fox
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