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To: mr.mark who wrote (16680)	2/22/2001 7:05:04 PM
From: Esteban	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110642

Thanks for posting the Cleaning Up Your System Tray. Now I'll see if I can get rid of a nagging program that starts automatically on boot that I have to close first thing everyday. I had already tried the simple things, so now I'll try the regedit. Here's what I always do when I mess with regedit. I run regclean first. This makes an undo file that allows me to go back if I screw up in my editing. Esteban

To: mr.mark who wrote (16680)	2/22/2001 9:23:05 PM
From: Ed Forrest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110642

Mark I didn't see any mention of the System Configuration Utility (msconfig) in the tip for removing unwanted startup programs. Is it not available in Windows 2000? Ed

To: mr.mark who wrote (16680)	3/7/2001 12:32:01 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 110642

from win2000mag.com.... WINDOWS 2000 PRO TIP: CLEANING UP THE SYSTEM TRAY, PART 2 (contributed by Doug Toombs, doug@netarchitect.com) "Last week, I told you how to remove all those annoying little applications from your system tray. Of course, utilities are available that perform that task automatically, but I like to learn how things work, so I prefer to do it myself. Speaking of learning, once again alert readers have tipped me off to the fact that a few more places exist where programs can hide themselves during your system boot. Last week, I mentioned four key areas to check when trying to permanently remove items from your system tray: 1. Check the program itself; it might let you unload it and never have it load again. 2. Check your startup folders, and remove any icons you don't want. 3. Check the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. 4. Check win.ini and system.ini files on your computer. Alert reader Claude Turner caught a few additional registry keys that slipped past me: - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Win.ini, System.ini; and winfile.ini" - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\Run - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\Load - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon\ParseAutoexec (If you set this value to 1, commands in the autoexec.bat file will run.) So, that's about eight different places that Microsoft lets vendors hide system tray icons that come up at startup. Again, each of these icons takes resources (memory) from your system, so if you don't want 'em, clean 'em out!"