Comments on: How to Clear / Remove Unwanted Items from “Hide Inactive Icons” Customization Box History in Notification Area (System Tray) of Windows XP, Vista and 7

By: VG

VG — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:24:18 +0000

^^ Open msconfig and make sure it doesnt have its entry in Startup tab.

By: abdl

abdl — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:19:29 +0000

mr.vg i m download Registry Fixer 4.0" softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Registry-Tweak/Registry-Fixer.shtml" from the link in qoutes and after uninstall this program icon of notification is still present in system tray how to remove it i am also use your describe method but this is not solve my problem!

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:05:54 +0000

After a few tries and reboots and still having the uninstalled icons there, thank you Sam for your suggestion! I removed the entries, closed regedit, opened Task Manager, killed explorer.exe, ran explorer.exe from inside the manager, restarted... no more unwanted icons!! I had to redo my notification preferences but it was worth it! Thanks! (Running Windows 7, 64 bit)

By: Bond

Bond — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:49:52 +0000

You Are A Genius!!!

By: VG

VG — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:27:50 +0000

^^ You can disable it using Taskbar Properties.

By: anil thakkar

anil thakkar — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:18:33 +0000

how do i disable customize notification past items so that i dont have to delete the tray notify past items every time. pls guide me

By: sddsdd

sddsdd — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:35:28 +0000

If you found that useful - the above fix - and you've looked at other tech forums without success, perhaps in a community spirit kind of way share the fix at one or two other forums to help others out - Thanks!

By: EZE

EZE — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:43:38 +0000

Edit:
had to do it twice.

By: EZE

EZE — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:26:49 +0000

It works, BUT... as far as i can tell, it only clears the ICONS, doesn't clear the item from the actual list.

I had a game a while back that was uninstalled - the icon was gone after doing this, but the notification options stayed.

-- so how do I remove the other stuff? Because even after this, I still have the options in the list to turn notifications on or off for the program.

I even found where these were located in the registry when I searched for them. Deleted them, and still nothing.

P.S. > running Windows 7 (x64)

By: sam

sam — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:01:12 +0000

Here, I've read from another forum that after you have removed the 2 binary values, you should go to task manager and end the explorer.exe process.. after that go to File, run explorer and then Reboot! My uninstalled program icons are now gone. :)

hope that helps. :)