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Vanguardx Wrote:
> "diamondgirl" diamondgirl@discussions.microsoft.com
> wrote in news
1A29ED0-DE67-4B5F-9C2E-B1D251FCBE56@microsoft.com:-
> For the life of me I cannot figureout how to permanently delete items
> from the taskbar at the very bottom right corner of the screen. I
> believe it is application taskbar.
>
> Sorry if I am so dumb..
> Thank you,-
>
> Sounds like you are asking about the system notification area, also
> called the system tray, where tray icons get displayed for some
> applications. Don't load the application if you don't want its icon
> there. Or check if the application has an option to not display a
> tray
> icon. Or right-click on the taskbar and configure its properties as
> to
> which icons are always shown, which are always hidden, and which are
> hidden when not active (in which case you are not eliminating the tray
> icon but am simply hiding it from being displayed all the time).
> There
> are also some tray icon managers that will collate several of the tray
> icons under one tray icon that has a roll-up menu to show those tray
> icons that it manages. PC Magazine has its TrayManager2 but I don't
> think it works under Windows XP (it did under Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000),
> but there might be other such utilities found in a Google search for
> them.
>
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> on start,go to run,type in msconfig.click on startup.go down and uncheck
> ones you don't want to show...Hope this helps.
> Nick]
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Nick