Comments on: How to Remove Unwanted Items from “Hide Inactive Icons” Customization Box in Windows XP, Vista and 7

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:55:06 +0000

Hey VG, I did exaclty what you said and when I restarted my cpu, I went to check to see if the padt icons were gone but they weren't!

By: cesar

cesar — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:51:53 +0000

didn't work for me in W7. I have many icons left from uninstalls and after doing what you say (deleting those entries) they are still there.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:44:03 +0000

doh! ran MM without any track playing and hid the system tray icon and now it no longer appears at all which is what I want. I thought i tried that before but obviously not.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:33:15 +0000

Thanks VG, it works but I want to always hide the system tray icon for mediamonkey but unfortunately MM makes the name of the current track the name of the icon, hence the icon reappears in the tray when the track is changed and I get a massive notification history full of MM icons with different names.

I couldn´t find an option in MM to disable it either. Any ideas?

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:54:46 +0000

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! Sid, you are the man!

By: Rain

Rain — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:34:39 +0000

To be more specific. Unless I hide my icons, versus ask them to be hidden when inactive, the icons hold the entire toolbar open.

It seems that the last icon in the row, the one on the inside, is holding them line open, and removing the open/close arrow.

By: Rain

Rain — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:07:39 +0000

I did this, and now my icons do not close, I have a row of them on my toolbar. Please help.

By: Parag

Parag — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:28:27 +0000

Didn't worked in Vista..

By: Vinman

Vinman — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:25:34 +0000

Worked like a charm!! running win7 Ultimate
Thanks! Sid vicious

By: Sid vicious

Sid vicious — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:47:09 +0000

To remove Past icons in Win 7:

1. Go to Start/ Run and type regedit to open registry editor.

2. Click on: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify

3. In the right Panel Find PastIconStream & IconStream, Delete them both.

4. Close the registry.

5.Open Task Manager

6.. Scroll down the list of Processes, find explorer.exe

7.. Highlight explorer.exe & choose end task ( you will be presented with a warning-ignore & continue)

8. Underneath the Task manager you will see everything on the Desktop vanish, but do not panic because it will all come back again with the next step.

9..In the task manager that is still open click on the File tab, then click New task (Run) & type explorer then press enter. Your desktop will instantly bounce back again, all neat & tidy too.

Now check your Notification Area & all of the old icon relics from previously uninstalled programs will be gone from the list.