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Windows XP will neatly hide any icons in
the notification area when they become inactive. You are also given the option
to also permanently hide or display the icon if you so wish. Unfortunately,
although this idea neatens up your notification area if you right click the task
bar , select properties and then, in the taskbar and startup menu properties
window, you click the customise button under the notification area section you
will see, not only the current icons displayed, but also every single past icon
that has been in the notification area. To get rid of these past items requires
editing the registry as follows:
Before making any changes to the registry it is
recommended that you make a backup copy of your registry either from within the
registry Editor (see
How do I
backup the Registry in Windows XP ) or
by using the freeware registry backup utility called ERUNT (available from
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt
)
1/ Click the Start button
2/ In the Start menu click Run
3/ In the Run dialog box type: regedit
4/ The registry editor window will open
5/ Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify
6/ Delete the following registry key
values IconStreams and PastIconStream
7/ Now open the Task Manager by
Right clicking on the taskbar and selecting task manager from the menu
8/ In the Task Manager window click the
Processes tab
9/ Click Explorer.exe and then
click End Process
10/ Next click File on the Task
Manager main toolbar. From the drop down menu click New Task
11/ In the Create New Task dialog
box type: explorer
12/ Finally click OK
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