notification area

[mr gee]

Hi in the notification area, you know by the time bottom right hand side I have a load of icons which are always hide but there are still some there that I dont use at all how can you delete these? the list just seems to be getting longer and although they are hidden I would like to be able to just delete those I dont want there
Mr gee

 

[Lonman]

You have to open the programs that put an icon in the system tray and tell it not to. What programs don't you want there? If I have any of them i'll help you find a way to turn the feature off.

 

[mr gee]

its the network connection icon for home networking which I'm not doingit looks like 2 tvs with a red cross through 'em

 

[Lonman]

Ok, go to Control Panel> System> 'hardware' tab> 'device manager' button> expand 'Network Adapters'> highlight and right click on your adapter and 'disable' it.

 

[mr gee]

brilliant thanks

 

[Lonman]

You're welcome. 😉

 

[existenz]

This is for deleting all the past items in that notification list...
It's a knowledge base article from Microsoft...

To clear the Past Items list, perform the following steps:

Delete the IconStreams and PastIconsStream values from the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify
Open Task Manager, click the Processes tab, click Explorer.exe , and then click End Process .

In Task Manager, click File , click New Task , type explorer , and then click OK .

Although, I logged off, then back on...instead of restarting explorer.exe