I want to remove some icons on the right/lower part of my screen (next to the clock). I can never remember the name of this bar :) How do I do that without removing the program?? All I see is the options on some to stop the programs each icon represents. Thanks for any help!!!! Jane McCombs Gillespie [email protected] McComb/McCombs Gillespie/Glaspy Hopewell Presbyterian CH McCormick Co SC

There are a couple of things you can do with these icons. The easiest way to avoid them displaying all the time, is right-click the Taskbar (that's its name, by the way :-)) in a blank spot. Select Properties. On the window that opens, down the bottom, you will see "Notification Area". First tick "Hide Inactive Icons" then click "Customize". That window will show a long list of the "Current Items" and further down, an equally long list of "Past Items". by clicking on any one of the named items you can choose its setting - "Hide When Inactive"; "Always Hide" and "Always Show". Choose the option you need for each one. Click OK on that screen when finished your alterations, and Apply or OK on the first screen. What will happen now is that the Taskbar will display a very short batch of icons near the clock, with a little chevron (<) in front. Click on the < and the display of icons will expand to the full selection across the Taskbar. To reduce it back, click on the chevron which this time points like this >. The other way involves deciding which applications you need running at Startup. Some are essential so they need to be there all the time - firewall, antivirus, internet connection, etc. Others are often placed there by well-meaning programmers who think their program you have recently installed is your most important choice. Invariably it is not :-). Those can be removed. They can easily be started whenever you need them from a Desktop icon or from from Start>AllPrograms. To check which applications run at Startup click Start>Run and type msconfig in the "Run" box. That opens the System Configuration Utility. Select the Startup tab (at the right hand end). Here you will see displayed everything which runs at Startup. If you don't need an item, remove the selection tick. This doesn't uninstall the application or process. It just stops it running at Startup. A number of the items displayed in that Startup list will be totally confusing and incomprehensible to you as they are to just about everyone. An easy way to determine just what an item is, is to visit this page: http://www.windowsstartup.com/wso/browse.php?l=1 It has an indexed list of just about every possible item that can possibly be displayed in Startup. You can of course, right click any of the icons in the Taskbar and select the options offered in the menu which pops up. However, this will only remove the icon for this session and it will display again next time you start your computer. And the worst scenario with that is that you may close down, rather than just remove the icon, for an essential program or service. It's best to go through the above two options - especially the first - to make sure everything is done to your satisfaction and your essential applications are intact. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > Sent: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:08:09 -0500 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [GEN-COMP-TIPS] Removing Icons > > I want to remove some icons on the right/lower part of my screen (next to > the clock). I can never remember the name of this bar :) > > How do I do that without removing the program?? All I see is the options > on > some to stop the programs each icon represents. Thanks for any help!!!! > > Jane McCombs Gillespie > [email protected] > > McComb/McCombs > Gillespie/Glaspy > Hopewell Presbyterian CH McCormick Co SC > -------------------------------------- > Having trouble with your subscription? Contact the List Admin at > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Usually just right click and close or exit from whatever program they are. Icons in that location show programs that are running in the system tray. You just want to turn them off. Unless you want them running, and some of them are probably things you want running. If that fails to work, try using close alt delete, find them under the processes tab, and close them. Soem of them may need you to alter your startup folder or the program settings so that they don't load when your computer starts. In Windows XP you edit your startup processes by Start --> Run --> msconfig. You might possibly have to tell it the path name where msconfig is, but I just run that word. Then select the startup tab. Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Gillespie" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 8:08 AM Subject: [GEN-COMP-TIPS] Removing Icons >I want to remove some icons on the right/lower part of my screen (next to > the clock). I can never remember the name of this bar :) > > How do I do that without removing the program?? All I see is the options > on > some to stop the programs each icon represents. Thanks for any help!!!! > > Jane McCombs Gillespie > [email protected] > > McComb/McCombs > Gillespie/Glaspy > Hopewell Presbyterian CH McCormick Co SC > -------------------------------------- > Having trouble with your subscription? Contact the List Admin at > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.3/395 - Release Date: 7/21/2006

Open the offending programs go to options or similar, look for start with windows it will be ticked. Untick and this should solve the problem. You can still start the programs from Start = all programs On 29/11/06, Jane Gillespie <[email protected]> wrote: > I want to remove some icons on the right/lower part of my screen (next to > the clock). I can never remember the name of this bar :) > > How do I do that without removing the program?? All I see is the options on > some to stop the programs each icon represents. Thanks for any help!!!! > > Jane McCombs Gillespie > [email protected] > > McComb/McCombs > Gillespie/Glaspy > Hopewell Presbyterian CH McCormick Co SC > -------------------------------------- > Having trouble with your subscription? Contact the List Admin at [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Regards, Laurence E Stephenson http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/lauries/web/index.html I am Researching:- Butcher..............Stroud, Gloucestershire, England.................>1856 Fortune..............Berwickshire, Scotland................................>1858 Garlick...............Liverpool, Lancashire, England.....................>1863 Mee...................Kilflyn, Limerick, Ireland (Palatine)................>1884 Payne................Washingborough, Lincolnshire, England........>1863 Ritchie...............Bonhill, Dunbartonshire, Scotland.................>1860 Stephenson........Pickering, Yorkshire, England .....................>1856 Wittick...... .......(Convict) Walsall, Staffordshire, England........>1822 Heartnet = Heart support = http://heartnet.cci.ecu.edu.au/

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