Windows users: How many icons are in your Systray?

[Fairy_Princess_Kitty]

Eleven, the sad part is that I’m not sure what half of them are.

Kitty

[Mauvaise]

Oh, if we’re including the Quickstart icons as well, then I have 5 more:

Internet Explorer

Outlook Express

Net2Phone

NetMeeting

and

Winamp

[White_Lightning]

*Originally posted by Natural-J-Bankie *
For those of you who aren’t sure, the icon on the right next to the clock are your system tray. Those are usually representative of small programs that run in the background (ICQ, display settings, etc). Most of those icons are actually representing a running program. To get rid of them you need to find out what those programs are and choose to disable them. There are many ways to do this. (clear out your startup folder, disable the icon by right clicking on them, use a utility like Xteq X-setup, etc) Try your different options. Hiding them with tray mangare will eliminate clutter, but not free up memory.

Bolding mine. Can someone post an easy-to-understand explanation of exactly how to do this? It may not have been clear from my first post, but I always have to ask my friend to tell me how. There’s some way you do it through windows that is very easy and makes your computer start up and run MUCH faster. But I forget how – and it seems like a lot of posters to this thread would like to know.
thanks.

[capacitor]

I have twenty-eight:
diablo 2-
Jamella’s diablo 2 editor
2 dial-up number lists–one for Earthlink and one for Netzero
earthlink dial-up
NetZero whatever
compass–the bookeeping program
IE
Irfanview
Junkbuter Proxy
Junkbuster Proxy block list
Outlook Express
The Incredible machine: Contraptions
Quickie shutdown batch file I made
Powerdesk
Ontrack System Suite 2000
My Computer
Outlook Express
Recycle Bin
Fastnet 99-a hosts update program
Extra DNS-a multi-DNS search program
Netcaptor
Quicktime Player
RollerCoaster Tycoon
Tweaki for Power Users
windows media player
Webwasher
and, of course Zonealarm

But then my desktop is blank.

[Rasa]

*Originally posted by White Lightning *
Bolding mine. Can someone post an easy-to-understand explanation of exactly how to do this? It may not have been clear from my first post, but I always have to ask my friend to tell me how. There’s some way you do it through windows that is very easy and makes your computer start up and run MUCH faster. But I forget how – and it seems like a lot of posters to this thread would like to know.
thanks.

In Win98: From the Start menu, choose run. Type “msconfig” (without the quotes). Click the Startup tab. All the stuff you see in there is starting when Windows starts, uncheck what you don’t want.

[Neidhart]

Capacitor, with 28 icons is there any room left on the taskbar?

Since GO.com died, I haven’t tried any express searches to see if they still work. Probably best to delete it.

On the left side, all I have is HP Internet Center, IE, Outlook Express and Show Desktop.