Friday, December 16, 2011

Solved: Another aggravation in the computer....

For quite a while now, whenever I'd check the window which shows me the list of Notification Area Icons, and offers me a choice to show or hide them, I've noticed that there was a lot of stuff on there which got left behind when old programs got turfed out but didn't properly remove all their little scattered bits. Things like this probably shouldn't bug me so much, but they do.

So today, I went Googling for solutions to that one, and found there really is one, and you can find it by clicking here.

When you're all done, and go onto that window for the Notification Area Icons again, you'll find that it's now all correctly displaying only those items which you are still actively using, not a bunch of junk left behind by departed programs.

Just be careful while editing your Registry, because mistakes in there can have some nasty side-effects, and I'm trying to help you avoid those. And before I forget to mention this, be sure you do a reboot right after you've restarted your explorer.exe to make sure that everything is refreshed and up to the minute, and really will show you only the latest list of items.

This is what mine looks like now that it has been cleaned up and shows what's actually there.
                       
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  1. TommyDecember 17, 2011 at 5:51 AM

    OK, Ray you Windows 7 hexpert...
    (slightly off subject)

    When using Windows Explorer. In Win XP, when you click on a folder in the left pane, the line item clicked on remains in the same location on the screen and the sub-folders are expanded so you can see them. This is good.

    However, in Windows 7 performing this same action it ain't the same. The sub-folders don't expend (unless you click on the little + sign and the line item that you clicked on may or may not move up or down on the screen. :-(

    Do you know anyway to make Windows Explorer in Win 7 act the same as Win XP?

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