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To: Gottfried who wrote (37111)	9/1/2000 12:35:50 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

OT Realplayer has a setting that you can get to with a right click over the systay icon that will let you check a box to remove it from the sys tray. Kirk

To: Gottfried who wrote (37111)	9/1/2000 2:44:50 PM
From: mitch-c	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

***OT - stopping systray launches This is what I do in my day job - solve this sort of problem. 1) Look at the StartUp program group. Delete anything you don't want to run. 2) Check the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files (yes, they still exist and launch things under Win 9x) for unwanted programs. Same for WIN.INI and SYSTEM.INI, if they exist. 3) Use Regedit to scan the registry for the RUN subkey and the RUNSERVICES subkey. Kill any program there that you don't want starting automagically. (delete the value referring to that program.) Check The RUNONCE and RUNSERVICESONCE subkeys to be sure that a blown install doesn't keep trying to load things there. (All four subkeys are near each other in the registry.) #3 is where the more persistent and stealthy net apps tend to plant their startup info. - Mitch