Removing in Win Me icons in Taskbar

[ROJAS]

On the bottom right side there aare a ton of icons I would like to remove. They are next to the clock. How can I remove the icons. I tried to drag them to the desktop and then delete and it would not let me.

Please help. Thanks,,

ROJAS

 

[ludeicruz]

u mean the system tray icons? those are most likely services you have running at start up, you'll need to edit your registry to remove those... easiest way though is to just right click on them and goto options/properties/etc. and see if the services have any way of turning itself off through some options (ex. uncheck 'run when window starts up')... also, check your startup folder and make sure you dont have anything you dont want

 

[ROJAS]

Thanks, but I tried that and a lot of icons don't allow you their properties on my friend's machine. Itold her to go to Win Xp and get rid of Win Me. I know Xp but not Me. It takes her machine 2-3 minutes with all the icons starting when windows opens.

Thanks

ROJAS

 

[DimZiE]

run msconfig from console ...

and remove the items you don't want

 

[NogginBoink]

Any running app can put an icon in the system tray ("notification area" under XP) by calling ShellNotifyIcon().

Basically, you have to configure each app that puts an icon there not to put an icon there.

There are not necessarily services, though some of them are. Editing the registry isn't the way to go. The proper solution is to configure each app not to put an icon there.

For instance, the volume icon can be turned off in the Sounds and Multimedia control panel under W2K.