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system tray

Oct 16, 2004 12:41AM PDT

op. syst. win me

Laptop

How do i disable some of the things in my system tray from starting on start up. I have so many it takes forever to start my computer.

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Re: system tray
Oct 16, 2004 4:45AM PDT

If you were to right click on these items in systray you might find that you have access to the program options.

If you were to look around in those options you might find something like "load/run at startup".

If you were to untick that option then the prog won't load at startup.

There are other ways that progs load at startup but see if that will get you close to what you want.

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Re: system tray/another way
Oct 17, 2004 10:00AM PDT

Go to Start/Run and type msconfig. Go to the Startup list. You can uncheck items here that show up in the tray. Not all of them post an icon there so you will need to find some reference which is sometimes cryptic. You will need to restart the PC afterwards.