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delete icons from task bar/ system trey

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mohitgiri
mohitgiri Original post #1
Mar 27, 2007 at 11:56 PM
i have xp sp2. There r sum unuseful icon in my task bar/system trey. i want to remove thrm. please help me.
Vishal Gupta
Mar 28, 2007 at 12:32 AM
Most of the icons in system tray, are of those applications, which start automatically at windows startup. U can remove those unwanted applications using msconfig. Type msconfig in RUN dialog box and goto Startup tab and uncheck the unwanted items. Also a few icons, like Volume icon, etc can be removed from control panel.
piyush gupta
Mar 28, 2007 at 10:03 AM
U want to remove them of hide them from XP

removing means these shortcuts or quick launch will be closed

if u dont like them u can also hide them
G
Mar 28, 2007 at 11:18 AM
JUst right click on task bar. Go to properies and check "Hide inactive icons".
mohitgiri
Mar 30, 2007 at 3:10 PM
no i wanted to remove them parmanante. and after the help of vishal i did it. but some icons r exist and i want to remove them like windows security alerts, intel extreme graphics 2 icon
piyush gupta
Mar 30, 2007 at 9:56 PM
Right Click Intel Extream Grappics and Select Systen Trey->Disable

Windows Security Alerts-> Select Don't Remind me(Something like there when you click on that alert)

Post your required icons there is always a process to hide them